RE: Lua C Functions in C++ class

["Kevin Baca" <lualist@...>]

Check this out: http://lua-users.org/wiki/SimplerCppBinding

-Kevin

> 
> I have a C++ class that exports some functions to a Lua environment. 
> These functions are, of course, static, but they need to 
> access member 
> functions/variables of the class. The only way to do this (that I can 
> think of) is to make those class members static as well, because 
> there's no way to associate any sort of user data with the exported 
> functions -- they only receive the lua_State* parameter, so I can't 
> tell them which class they belong to when they're called. 
> This wouldn't 
> be such a problem, except that it's possible I might want multiple 
> instances of this class at once, and clearly if they're both 
> manipulating the same static members, there'll be problems, 
> since these 
> members really shouldn't be static.
> 
> I can't think of a great way to solve this problem that 
> doesn't involve 
> jumping through hoops every time a function of the class gets called. 
> Is there a design pattern I'm missing here? What do other 
> people do in 
> this situation?
> 
> Tim
>