Hi Andreas, I have been playing with AngelScript for a few days, trying to integrate it with a finite state machine character manager I am putting together. Its nice and compact, was easily wrapped in a C++ wrapper class that does the setup etc, perhaps I can share this if anyone is interested... Anyways, I am having trouble with bool data types, one of the first test cases I am putting together. Assume I have a class (apologies if this doesn't compile, I am typing this in directly, the state machine is somewhat more complex):

class Foo
{
  public:
     Foo();
     Foo(bool newData);
     ~Foo();
     bool getData();

  private:
     bool data;
};
  

With an implementation:

Foo::Foo()
{
  data = false;
}

Foo::Foo(bool newData)
{
  data = newData;
}

~Foo::Foo()
{
}

bool Foo::getData()
{
   return data;
}
  

Pretty useless by itself. If I register the class Foo in the engine and the getData() method as well and pass a pointer to a constructed Foo like such in a script method:

// Start Script

void test(Foo * foo)
{
  if (foo->getData())
  { 
     debug("foo->getData() was true");
  }
  else
  {
     debug("foo->getData() was false");
  }
}

// End Script
  

Where debug is a registered funtion that takes a asBSTR and pipes it to cout on the C++ side It always outputs: foo->getData() was true Even when I set the data value to false. I also tried: if (foo->getData() == true) ... and (foo->getData() == false) ... with no joy. I debugged this further and saw that your bool data type from the dll has: false = 0 true = 255 where MSVC++ 6.0 has false = 0 true = 1 I tried comparing the input bool with an int but the script engine trickily gave me a type conflict message. Thats as far as I got debugging it, any help would be appreciated. Additionally, does anyone know how to create a asBSTR in C++ code to send through to the engine, I know how to use the ones returned, am aware of the dll methods to allocate space for them but can find no examples on how to create a asBSTR from a const char * from the C++ side. Cheers, nihlist To understand recursion you must first understand recursion [edited by - nihlist on March 10, 2004 7:55:20 AM]

Hi Andreas,

Thanks for the quick feedback. I am happy for a credit for this one, my name is Josh Passenger.

nihlist

To understand recursion you must first understand recursion

Oh and thanks for the tips on the asBSTR, I hunted high and low but must have missed this one,

nihlist

To understand recursion you must first understand recursion