Re: Question about structs and tolua 5

["Vbr. Andre Kloss" <kloss@...>]

Hi there,

> Have you tried the other SDL bridge there is, namely LuaCheia/LuaX one. 
No, I have not tried it yet, since last time I could not find a suitable
link to the source. But I'll definetly have a look at it now.

> I'm not sure what kind of problems you might be referring to with 
> luaSDL events, since in my opinion there shouldn't be any.
As I wrote in my last email:
- the types of events returned (in event) by SDL.SDL_PollEvent(event)
  varies, which inconveniently commits suicide on type checking (e.g.
  type checking awaits a SDL_Event, but gets a SDL_Keyboard_Event).
- In C unions I can access the subtypes of the union with access keys,
  for example if event is an SDL_Event whose type is SDL_KEYDOWN_EVENT,
  I can access the SDL_Keyboard_Event on event.key in C - in lua, on
  some ocassions I will get the SDL_Event, on others the
  SDL_Keyboard_Event. Sure, I can work around by asking if event.key ==
  nil, but this is ugly and only masks the problem.

> These both SDL bindings have been implemented independent from each o
> ther, and therefore might have differing strengths and/or weaknesses.
True. But improving tolua will hurt neither of them ;)

> yours,  -ak
yours, too
Andre
-- 
Tolerance rulez, everything else sux! -- Andre Kloss