Re: writting GUI is possible with LUA?

[Asko Kauppi <asko.kauppi@...>]

What do you mean by 'native'?  There's got to be some non-Lua graphics 
stuff underneath such formation. You could use SDL, it's certainly fast 
enough, and many Lua-only games exist on it.

-ak

Rafael Jannone kirjoittaa sunnuntaina, 6. heinäkuuta 2003, kello 05:22:

> On Mon, 30 Jun 2003 11:46:57 -0300
> Mark Stroetzel Glasberg <mark@tecgraf.puc-rio.br> wrote:
>
> > Carlos Lorenz wrote:
> > > I am new to Lua and yet had no time to look
> > > in its documentation so forgive me for my
> > > question but I want to know if it is possible also
> > > to write GUI with LUA
> >
> > Yes it is. Take a look at:
> >
> > http://www.tecgraf.puc-rio.br/iup
> >
> > There is a binding of IUP to Lua.
>
> did anyone come up with a native lua toolkit instead of a binding?
> i mean, lua can handle garbage collection, signaling and other
> "gui patterns" quite easily.
> would it be too slow?
>
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