toLua query

["Anthony J Webster" <anthony@...>]

Hi,

Slightly off-topic I know. I’ve been trying to understand exactly what the ‘mapsuper’ method of the tolua library does without success.

 

I have the following classes: Shape & Line:Shape

 

My quick and dirty table printer shows that the metatable inheritance chain of these classes is as follows:

 

Commonclass <- Shape <- Line <- const Line

Commonclass <- Shape <- const Shape

 

Whereas the tolua_super table which I believed to be a repository of super classes is as follows

 

{tolua_super} -> {

            {const Line} -> {

                        “const “ -> 1

                        “const Shape” -> 1

            }

            {const Shape} -> {

                        “const “ -> 1

}

{Line} -> {

            “” -> 1

            “const Line” -> 1

            “Shape” -> 1

            “const Shape” -> 1

}

{Shape} -> {

            “” -> 1

            “const Shape” -> 1

}

}

 

Which doesn’t seem at all in keeping with the inheritance chain.

 

I would greatly appreciate it if someone with some experience in the toLua architecture could help me understand what’s going on here.

 

Many Thanks

 

Anthony