Re: Calling a member function using text to specify function name

Subject: Re: Calling a member function using text to specify function name
From: Robert Raschke &lt;rtrlists@ ... &gt;
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 2010 20:01:03 +0000

On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 7:55 PM, Colm Sloan <colmsloan@gmail.com> wrote:

I'm trying to call a function, let's say it's called:
MyClass:MyFunction01

I'm trying to pass the name of the function as text where it can be later called. Here's what I've tried:

local functionName = 'MyClass.MyFunction01'
_G[ functionName ]()
This method was taken from here ( http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1791234/lua-call-function-from-a-string-with-function-name ).

I get the error:
"attempt to call field 'CLua_NPC_Nurse.PrintTest' (a nil value)"

I looked in the _G table and found that it does have the entry for my class and I'm sure my class has that function. Could anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong and how I can fix it?

Thanks :)