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I would recommend another (simpler) kind of mechanism: - have all of your application state in a separate table (or in the _G) - store that table when exiting- read that table when re-launching, and if it already contains stuff, rebuild your application's visual appearance accordingly - in regular exit (truly quitting the software) erase the state table so the next launch will be "virgin"
At least Maemo had this kind of a framework, though very roughly implemented. With Lua, it can be simple. It requires special attention from the scripts you are running, though. And if it's a GUI, you need to make some assumptions s.a. not "hybernating" when a dialog is active. Otherwise there's waaaay too much state to be restored (had this dialog open, with this field selected, with these entries edited....) Just consider dialogs invocation-temporal.
Lua Lanes supports this kind of a mechanism in the thread cancellation (you can get the globals of a cancelled thread). But you can implement it also on bare Lua, or with Pluto.
Things s.a. userdata cannot be serialized, of course. They can have a lifespan within each invocation only.
- asko kathrin_69@gmx.de kirjoitti 20.3.2009 kello 13:10:
Hi,I want to save the state of a Lua VM to a file to re-load and restart execution later.Three options come to my mind:1. Serializing the global index table of the VM. I even found a library called "Pluto" which promises to do this.2. Trying to make a deep copy of the lua_State* pointing to a VM and save/load the binary data.3. Trying to overwrite malloc/free for the Lua.dll, place all memory the VM holds in an pre-allocated chunk. Save and re-load that whole chunk. I'm not sure If I'm yet experienced (in C/C++) enough to get this done. Probably not.My Questions are:1. Which of that options will work or which one are used and which not?2. Are there any other options I missed? 3. Which option is most promising in terms of time and complexity?4. Are there any other helper libraries (beside Pluto) which helps doing one of the options?Thank you! Regards Joerg