Re: Passing to Lua a table inside a table

[Patrick Donnelly <batrick@...>]

On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 5:00 PM, zweifel <zweifel@gmail.com> wrote:
> Why cant I pass a table inside a table with the following code:
>
>        //first table
>         lua_newtable(lua_state);
>
>        //second table inside the first table
>        lua_newtable(lua_state);
>
>         lua_pushstring(lua_state, "x");         //key
>         lua_pushnumber(lua_state, (double)array[0]);            //value
>         lua_settable(lua_state, -3);
>
>         lua_pushstring(lua_state, "y");         //key
>         lua_pushnumber(lua_state, (double)array[1]);            //value
>         lua_settable(lua_state, -3);
>
>         lua_pushstring(lua_state, "z");         //key
>         lua_pushnumber(lua_state, (double)array[2]);            //value
>         lua_settable(lua_state, -3);
>
>         //finish the second table and set it as index to the first table
>         lua_rawseti(lua_state, -2, index);
>
>         //set name of the first table
>         lua_setglobal(lua_state, lua_table_name);


This code looks fine to me. You must be doing something else wrong?

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