CairoPad (Re: finally ask for lua and sdl question)

[Asko Kauppi <askok@...>]

The keyboard + mouse support is indeed lacking in Cairo, but is part  
of the CairoPad plan I've had.

Most likely, it will be a stand-alone executable linking to liblua,  
since many GUI's will need special care that a Lua module might find  
difficult (not impossible) to offer.

I've done this once, with LuaX and SDL.  Now it's a matter of doing it  
with plain Lua 5.1 and Cairo.  Should be ready by Christmas.

-asko


Francisco Sant'anna kirjoitti 20.8.2008 kello 3:51:

> I would love to see a raw and simple graphics API for Lua.
> Support for layers, fonts, alpha and event handling, that's it.
> No need for animations, gui widgets, etc.
>
> Cairo is great, but support for keyboard and mouse would be needed  
> as well.
> Also, its Lua binding misses X11 support.
>
> I liked the Scrupp simple API (but no support for layers).
>
> --
> Francisco
>
> On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 1:21 AM,  <askok@dnainternet.net> wrote:
> > I'll be coming back to the dream / concept of LuaX later, but from  
> > another
> > angle. This time, everything's working with regular Lua 5.1 package  
> > model.
> > And it won't be called LuaX. And it will use Cairo for vector  
> > graphics.
> >
> > -asko
> >
> > On Fri, 15 Aug 2008 09:48:11 +0800
> > "Kenneth LO" <kenlo88@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > LuaX no longer maintained?  I tried it some time ago (probably year
> > > 2006).  It definitely is good software with many powerful packages
> > > linked in.  At that time my interest was a tiny (<500k) cross  
> > > platform
> > > GUI + Lua solution.  But it turns out that doing GUI on SDL is not
> > > that sort of thing I imagined.
> > >
> > > Back to murgaLua.  It's tiny but it's not fltk2.  And fltk2 looks  
> > > like
> > > progressing very slowly (e.g. fl_table).  For GUI bindings, tcltk is
> > > probably more powerful especially they now have native OS support.
> > >
> > > On game scripting engines, how about luaplayer on PSP?