Re: "Game Development With LUA" book

[Andreas Rönnquist <andreas.ronnquist@...>]

dcharno wrote:
> Robert Osfield wrote:
> > The only little hickup was that I never found a good tour of how to do 
> > thorough C++ and Lua integration, this took reading online source 
> > code, and spending time thinking about how to integrate the two and 
> > experimenting with code.
>
> Game Programming Gems 6 has a few nice chapters on Lua, specically 
> Chapter 4.2 "Binding C/C++ Objects to Lua" by Waldemar Celes, Luiz 
> Henrique de Figueiredo and Roberto Ierusalimschy.  This is sort of what 
> I was hoping to get from "Game Development with Lua".  Its a bit pricey 
> just for those chapters but if you're interested in other aspects of the 
> book it might be worth it.


Thanks everybody for your input! Keep the discussion going! Anyway - I 
think I'll pass on that book (the Game Development With LUA one), I am 
not very interested in Win32 programming (running Linux myself) - but if 
a book holds invaluable information on LUA in an Win32-context one can 
often sort it out.

My main interest is the kind of stuff mentioned above - binding C++ 
objects to LUA - as it is now I use the method of registering functions 
one by one - and in those checking for correct amount of indata and 
datatypes. Feels rather wrong when coding in C++ - this is what I would 
like to avoid - I've got the impression that other methods is availible. 
Also I would like to get some knowledge on how to make an optimal 
enviroment and interaction C++-code <-> LUA-code avoiding risks of 
memory leakage and the likes.

oops, turned out to be quite a rant.

anyway - keep the discussion going - all input is welcome!

/Andreas