__index method not being called??

[Ignacio Burgueño <ignacio@...>]

Hi everyone. I have a little issue with the __index metamethod. It seems to me I'm doing something really stupid, but I can't see where.

 

do

 

mt = {}
mt.__index = function(t, k) print("prueba2 --" .. k) end

 

ipStartData = {}
setmetatable(ipStartData, mt)

 

ipStartData.version = 256 -- 0x0100
ipStartData.delimiter = ","
ipStartData.num_boards = 1
ipStartData.board_list = ipBoardInfo

 

end

 

The __index method does not get called when I access the table. But __newindex does. Have I misunderstood the concept of __index?

What I'd like to achieve eventually is something like proxy tables (I need to set the members of C structs).

I'm using Lua 5.0.

 

Thanks in advance,

Ignacio Burgueño