John Labenski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On 3/11/06, thegeek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, I've been using lua in combination with litestep ( an alternative > > shell for litestep ), litestep has a lslua module that allows themers to > > use lua for scripting themes. Lslua uses lua 5.1 and has full support > > for the new binary module spec. > > I'm not sure what litestep is, an xterm replacement? litestep.net? > Their web page is broken for mozilla (in linux) and you cannot > navigate to any of the tabs. > > > Is it currently possible to load wxlua as a lua "module"? > > No, see #3 below. > > > If not, how hard would it be to make it possible, what problems are there? > > I'm not much of a programmer, but I've been looking at the latest > > release, and it seems very nice, it would however be great if users > > could use the normal lua 5.1 release to load wxlua, without having to > > recompile the parent application. > > I agree that 5.1 "modules" should be something that wxLua should > support. There are some issues however. > > 1) wxLua currently uses 5.0.2 so we'd have to upgrade to 5.1. > Unfortunately this means that we have to rewrite some of our lua code > since table.getn has disappeared. > > 2) In order to track coroutines we had to modify the lua source code. > What has been added is a function that gets called when a coroutine > creates a new lua_State. wxLua must be able to find the wxLua > variables associated with the lua_State, these are the windows, > events, data, etc. I'm not sure if there is another way to do this? > Using a vanilla lua executable means that you cannot run coroutines, > which may or may not be a problem for people. > > 3) Additionally for the "module" support we'd have to make it so that > the wxWidgets event loop gets initialized. This should be possible and > I believe that it was done before, but again figuring it all out will > take some effort. I have not looked into what it takes to setup a > module so I cannot make any promises. > > Hopefully for the next release we'll get to both of these things, but > I cannot give any definite timelines for it. > > You can always run wxLua itself on the command line and it should work > fine. For example > $wxLua myluaprogram.lua > merely runs your program if it contains wxlua code or just straight > lua code. You can even run compat5.1.lua to load modules as was > previous discussed in the luasocket thread. > > Regards, > John Labenski > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language > that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast > and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! > http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid0944&bid$1720&dat1642 >
First of all thank you for your quick and very informative reply. I doubt I could help much with the development, but if you do implement module functionality it would be great:) Regarding litestep: Sorry, I meant to say "(litestep is a shell replacement for windows)", it's a quite old shell, but because of it's modular design it has survived(and is still beeing developed) There are lots of plugins that let you do almost anything conceiveable. There are a few websites you can visit for more information; lsdev.org , ls- universe.info and litestep.com Keeping with the modular design it would be a shame if wxLua would have to be compiled into/with lslua. The primary reason I would like wxlua in litestep is to give themers a better interface for any gui needs they have beyond the theme itself, such as "control panels" or even widgets such as a color picker. wxLua in combination with litestep and xlabel(a plugin for litestep) would give a _lot_ of freedom in designing your very own ui. :) ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=110944&bid=241720&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Wxlua-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wxlua-users
