Re: Calling a function in a table from C++ without loosing 'self'

["Russell Y.Webb" <rwebb@...>]

On Jun 8, 2005, at 8:58 PM, Framework Studios: Hugo wrote:

> I'm trying to call a function called 'init' in a table from C++. Currently this is what I've got:
>  
> int cGameObject::start(lua_State *VM)
> {
> // first get the table
>  lua_pushstring(VM, m_TableName);        // m_TableName = "GameObject" in this example
>  lua_gettable(VM, LUA_GLOBALSINDEX);
> // get the 'init' function from the table
>  lua_pushstring(VM, "init");
>  lua_gettable(VM, -2);
> // call the function
>  lua_call(VM, 0, 0);
>  
> return 0;
> }

Try using 
lua_call(VM, 1, 0)
since you have 1 argument to pass (self is the first argument).

Note t:f() is semantically the same as t.f(t)

Hope that helps,
Russ