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March 17, 2014, 15:20
DoctorN
Whiskered
91 posts
My question is exactly as the title says. I need some help with C/C++ and Lua. For the longest time, my objects have been hard-coded into the game as classes. Well I can't seem to register a function inside a class to lua. I tried doing a struct, and while I can register static functions from structs to lua, I can't register just regular old structs. I don't really want to do anything complicated, I just need help figuring this out. Thanks
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March 18, 2014, 16:24
DoctorN
Whiskered
91 posts
here's an example:
Code:
typedef struct testobj {
    bool initialized = false;
    string name = "testobj";
    int x = 0;
    int y = 0;
} testobj;

testobj TESTOBJ[5];

int testobj_function( lua_State *L ) {

}

void testobj_proc( int ID ) {
    if( TESTOBJ[ID].initialized == false ) {
        //state object name and it's location
        printf("%d starting at: %d,%d",TESTOBJ[ID].name.c_str(),TESTOBJ[ID].x,TESTOBJ[ID].y);
        //prevent initialization from occurring again
        TESTOBJ[ID].initialized = true;
    }
}


How can I register testobj_function and have it communicate only with the ID of it's parents? Know what i'm saying? Thanks
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March 19, 2014, 21:49
DTM
Earthling!
821 posts

I have absolutely no idea.

I think you better ask on a Lua forum.

Remember structs and classes are more or less exactly the same thing. (Except structs default to public:). This probably doesn't help though.

I imagine to register a full C++ class for use by Lua you'd have to somehow tell Lua about all available attributes and methods of the class. It's not gonna deduce this by itself.

A quick google for "lua register c++ class" finds stuff like this:
http://loadcode.blogspot.com/2 … ses-in-lua.html
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