Re: Porting a lua program with GUI to windows

[Coda Highland <chighland@...>]

On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 6:56 AM, steve donovan <steve.j.donovan@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 4:01 PM, Michael Gerbracht <smartmails@arcor.de> wrote:
>> Now I am thinking about looking into .net and luainterface. But before I
>> start again I would like to ask you whether this would be a good decision. It
>> is not as platform independent as the other toolkits I tried first but with
>> Mono it might be possible to use it on Linux (and Mac OS?) - but platform
>> independence does not have the highest priority for me.
>
> LuaInterface works fine on .Net and Mono (see [1], which is a
> backported LuaInterface version that uses P/Invoke against a native
> Lua 5.1 dll/so )
>
> The examples given are Gtk# but obviously Windows Forms would be
> preferred on Windows - this is partially implemented on Mono but the
> results aren't very good looking.
>
> Practically anything that can be done in C# can be done in
> LuaInterface, and usually more elegantly by use of first class Lua
> functions.  I've been able to directly use NPlot from LuaInterface
> programs, which is a good charting library, well suited to scientific
> work.
>
> Current maintainers seem a bit asleep but I recently worked on the
> inner details so I should be able to remember what's going on ;)
>
> steve d.
>
> [1] https://github.com/stevedonovan/MonoLuaInterface
>

If OSX is an important target, avoid using GTK and Mono -- it doesn't
jive with typical Mac interface behaviors (which will annoy users) and
the performance is pretty terrible.

/s/ Adam