Re: state not being retained

[Lee Shallis <gb2985@...>]

On Tue, 25 Feb 2020 at 08:55, Lee Shallis <gb2985@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> This is where I think the problem lies:
> if v.list then
>         for j,x in pairs(v.list) do
>             k = {}
>             k.desc = x.desc
>             k.offset = x.offset
>             if x.offset then
>                 k.addr = v.addr + x.offset
>             else
>                 k.addr = x.addr
>             end
>             k.Type = x.Type
>             k.size = x.size
>             k.list = x.list
>             k.count = x.count
>             k.split = x.split
>             k.generated = x.generated
>             GUI.keep_cheat = nil
>             GUI.draw_cheat(ctx,font,k)
>             k = GUI.keep_cheat
>             v.list[j] = k
>         end
>         GUI.keep_cheat = v
>         return
>     end
> ...
> local function draw_cheat(ctx,font,v)
>     local prv, now, nxt, text, j, k, x, tmp, bytes, test
>
>     if v.desc == nil then
>         v.desc = "???"
>     end
>
>     GUI.keep_cheat = nil
>
>     if v.prev or v.list or v.count or v.split then
>         GUI.draw_cheats( ctx, font, v )
>         v = GUI.keep_cheat
>         return
>     end
>
> Though if you think the problem lies elsewhere feel free to look
> through the source at https://github.com/awsdert/gasp, I'm just about
> to upload the recent changes just in case you do

Never mind, I managed to fix it somehow, seems lua does not treat
booleans as a type, had to manually check against nil, true and false
to finally get the expected result :|