Re: Tklua (once more)

[Kein-Hong Man <keinhong@...>]

manel wrote:
> [snip]
> The main question:
>
>    Is it as difficult to port Tk to Lua 5.1?
>
> (I am not a Lua expert, only a user; I know very little about the
> internals).
>
> The point 3) before links with the impact of Lua in the computing world
> (many times cited in this list). A Tk port for the last version of Lua
> could increase the number of users of Lua. I think that certain critical
> mass have to be achieved for the full taking off of Lua in the computer
> community. Perhaps some people have the opposite idea: Lua has took off;
> and others could think: Lua does not need more impulse, it is good in
> its niche. However, I think as many of you that Lua is very good as a
> general purpose computer language, and it should conquer other fields,
> apart from (mainly) games.

It would be nice to have an updated Tk binding.

On the binding, it depends on whether you want to write a custom 
one or you want to use a tool like tolua++.

For LuaSDL, as an example of using binding tools, I purposely did 
not look at the old implementation, but did everything from 
scratch. After setting up tolua++ and compiling a simple test, I 
completed the initial binding the very next day, and made a 0.1.0 
release after 7 days of intermittent coding.

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Cheers,
Kein-Hong Man (esq.)
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia