Re: toLua++ question

[Tim Mensch <tim-lua-l@...>]

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On 12/14/2010 9:02 PM, Tim Mensch wrote:
> On 12/13/2010 1:19 PM, Tim Mensch wrote:
>> On 12/11/2010 2:42 PM, Anders Backman wrote:
>>
>>> I would have to say, no. Not without some additional work.
>>> I have a modified tolua++ which supports our reference counting.
>>> I had to add a few macros:
>> And as far as that goes, it DOES look to me that toLua++ would support
>> at least the reference counted part, since it supports returning objects
>> by value, and you could tell it (as I said in my example) that the
>> shared_ptr<> "derived" from the class itself. 
> The result of the experiment is that, yes, toLua++ does handle boost
> smart pointers when set up as I described above...

Except that it doesn't handle them that way. My tests were incomplete
when I posted that; further testing of the generated code revealed that
it was doing the wrong thing..

My final solution was to add operator->() to tolua++, so that Boost
shared_ptr<> templates could be handled correctly; if anyone needs that
I'm glad to share it.

Tim
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