Re: Bookworm Adventures Postmortem

[Niklas Frykholm <niklas@...>]

Eike Decker wrote:
> I am using a quite similiar approach:
>
> if Agent then Agent.cleanup() end -- Agent must be nil
>
> Agent = {} 
> ...
>
> I need to do some cleanups at the end, since the visual objects in Luxinia are
> not directly Garbage collected.
>
> Anyhow, this is not always wanted. For instance, my Agent might have a function
> called think, that handles the way it behaves. Now the agent approaches a
> certain complex situation that resulted randomly. If I reload, the agent code
> is reloaded - and thus the agent is deleted.
>   
I don't see why you would need to do cleanup and delete the agent when 
you reload the lua file. Reloading the file should just change the 
function and method definitions and give you new behavior. There should 
be no need to release resources, etc.

// Niklas