Re: toLua++ question

[Tim Mensch <tim-lua-l@...>]

On 12/13/2010 1:19 PM, Tim Mensch wrote:

> On 12/11/2010 2:42 PM, Anders Backman wrote:
> 
>> I would have to say, no. Not without some additional work.
>> I have a modified tolua++ which supports our reference counting.
>> I had to add a few macros:


> And as far as that goes, it DOES look to me that toLua++ would support
> at least the reference counted part, since it supports returning objects
> by value, and you could tell it (as I said in my example) that the
> shared_ptr<> "derived" from the class itself. It holds an object as a
> pointer, but if it's a pointer to an allocated shared_ptr<>, then that
> should work correctly, yes? Though maybe not; object.foo() in Lua might
> try to dispatch to (*object).foo() instead of object->foo()
> (operator->()).


The result of the experiment is that, yes, toLua++ does handle boost
smart pointers when set up as I described above, with exactly the
shortcoming (not being able to call the base class with a derived
pointer) that I described.

Tim