Re: [ANN] tekUI GUI toolkit for Windows released

[Philippe Lhoste <PhiLho@...>]

On 16/03/2009 22:53, Timm S. Mueller wrote:
> > BTW, "bin" name for example programs is surprising, I would expect to see the .exe and 
> > .dll's there, and the sample Lua programs in a "sample" or similar directory).
>
> This is interesting. So you had a working association with Lua (which
> wasn't a requirement of the package).

Just some hand-made registry settings.
If I type Foo.lua on the command line, it will run the script with my version of Lua.exe.

> tekUI's class library is located
> under tek/ui/ , which I supposed couldn't be found by examples in a
> samples directory branching off from the root. So having lua.exe in the
> package root provided an anchor for finding the required DLLs and
> classes, at least that was the plan. Being a Windows illerate, I don't
> quite understand how the OS was able to pick the correct path for the
> DLLs and classes, but good to know that it did. :-)

I just tried:

- root: only the informational text files
- samples: just the renamed 'bin' directory
- bin: I move lua.exe, lfs.dll and lua51.dll there; also tek, tek/class, tek/lib, tek/ui, etc.

Command line on bin, typing

  lua.exe ..\samples\demo.lua

shows the demo. Were I found that it auto-discovers all the demo files! In my previous 
attemps (..\lua.exe), it wasn't able to find them and I had an empty left pane.

Finding the right DLLs and Lua files just works, thanks to sensible defaults in search 
path, probably.

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