Re: Help needed calling Lua from my C function

[Mike Crowe <mikelocal@...>]

Luiz,

Thanks.  That may be it.

However, I'm using:
   lua_dobuffer( L, B, 1069, "'..id..'" );

Instead of loadfile.  How does dobuffer() work with pcall()?

Mike

Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo wrote:

> > The error function myError doesn't get called.
> >
> >    lua_pushcfunction(L,myError);
> >    lua_setglobal(L,"_ALERT");
> >    
>
> Lua 5.1 no longer uses _ALERT. The correct idiom is something like
>
> if (luaL_loadfile(L,"test.lua") || lua_pcall(L,0,0,0))
>  fprintf(stderr,"%s\n",lua_tostring(L,-1));
>
> This also holds for 5.0, though _ALERT was still available for
> compatibility only.
> --lhf
>