Scripting language help

Joseph1337 · Post by **Joseph1337** » Mon Feb 04, 2008 6:10 pm

Hello

I recently started a small project with Irrlicht with no game programming experience. I created some code, almost all object based. Now I`m wondering - does Lua or Python can call c++ methods? If yes then could you say where I can find a decent tutorial on Lua/C++ or Python/C++(based on which can call C++ methods) tutorial.

Thanks

MasterGod · Post by **MasterGod** » Mon Feb 04, 2008 7:22 pm

What about AngelScript:
http://www.angelcode.com/angelscript/

Joseph1337 · Post by **Joseph1337** » Mon Feb 04, 2008 9:12 pm

Does that mean that I can`t call methods with Lua or Python? (This angelascript isn`t so bad though)

rogerborg · Post by **rogerborg** » Mon Feb 04, 2008 11:13 pm

Calling C++ functions from Lua. I can't find anything on calling a method, nor can I figure out how you'd specify an object (so you'd have to call a class static method). Sorry.

I don't have much experience with either, but I have a mild leaning towards gamemonkey rather than lua.

MasterGod · Post by **MasterGod** » Mon Feb 04, 2008 11:37 pm

Well rogerborg, check AngelScript. It can handle objects and methods and functions and the syntax is C\C++'s..

rogerborg · Post by **rogerborg** » Tue Feb 05, 2008 9:43 am

That does look very impressive - from the intro text, anyway.

Does it do what it says on the tin?

shogun · Post by **shogun** » Tue Feb 05, 2008 12:29 pm

If you want to call C++-methods from Lua, check out Luabind.

MasterGod · Post by **MasterGod** » Tue Feb 05, 2008 4:42 pm

rogerborg wrote:That does look very impressive - from the intro text, anyway.

Does it do what it says on the tin?

I've downloaded the examples and it works pretty nice. I haven't used it yet but I plan to integrate it with my project, unless I'll find a better one which I doubt I will..

buhatkj · Post by **buhatkj** » Sat Feb 23, 2008 2:41 am

i found a nifty thinger called C/Invoke, whose purpose is to work in a similar manner to P/Invoke, which was used for instance to do the Irrlicht CP wrapper for .NET. I got it working up to the point where my lua runtime can use it, and Im trying to adapt the IrrlichtW Wrapper from Irrlicht CP to DE-Object-Orient Irrlicht so I can use it this way. Yeh, I might be crazy, but i like a few things about lua a lot, and I like this method better than lua's native C calling support which involves a whole bunch of annoying stack-parameter-passing BS. I wants me some damn coroutines and lightweight threads....
heres a linky http://www.nongnu.org/cinvoke/lua.html