Dear all,
I'm new to Lua and very enthusiastic about it, especially in it's
ability to interface with C. I've written a GUI in C and have given
the users the ability to customize behaviours (such as mouse clicks)
in Lua.
I've defined a so called "click-able" region as a struct in C. The
user can create a region that's click-able in a lua script with a
single line like this:
mywidget1 = widget.create(100,100,10,10) --create click-able region
at (x,y) = 100,100 width 10 and height 10
By implementing the __index in C code, the user can write:
function mywidget1:leftclick
print("hurray! a left click!")
end
Now, the C code is capable to relate the clicked region to the right
Lua object and a get a nice "hurray!" printed. Unfortunatly, if my
user does:
mywidget1 = widget.create(100,100,10,10)
mywidget2 = widget.create(110,110,20,20)
function mywidget1:leftclick
print("left click widget 1")
end
function mywidget2:leftclick
print("left click widget 2")
end
I always get "left click widget 2". This is, because the widgets
share the same method table, so the last definition simply
overwrites all previous ones. How do I change my C code, so my users
can have the above code working?
Thanks
Max
