Lua - Passing Tables from Lua to C++
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Hey all, ive come along way from when i didnt know anything about lua, but now im stuck on something small...( i think! ). Anyways, i know how to pass strings and doubles from lua to c++ functions ( in the parameters ) but is it at all possible to pass a whole table from lua to c++ then disect it in c++?
any help would rock
~danny
This site has a brief tutorial on Lua, with integration of Lua into C++.
Your question is answered there.
Your question is answered there.
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i checked that, it told me what i already knew ( how to pass multiple variables and such ) but what im trying to basically is send a struct thru lua to c++.
You can't get a table from a lua_State directly, since the only way to manipulate tables is by calling lua_settable and lua_gettable on a lua_State. I think this is intentional, since Lua wouldn't be able to know when to garbage collect a table if you could pass it around in C/C++.
As Barius said, you can't really just get a whole lua table. You would need to manually get the data from the table using the Lua API and manually store it in a class or struct. You could write a utility function to do this for you as well.
There are a bunch of C++ codewrappers available for lua. Try using one of those to bind your C++ class/struct to lua, it usually helps.
http://lua-users.org/wiki/LuaAddons
http://lua-users.org/wiki/LuaAddons
Quote:is it at all possible to pass a whole table from lua to c++ then disect it in c++?
No, not in the traditional sense. The only way to work with tables is through the stack. If this is what you really want, I recommend that you write a utility function that will take a Lua table, extract all the values and build an array/dictionary with said values (and even their keys). It's probably easier than it seems. You could also use a 3rd-party wrapper/SDK/toolkit, but that's the easy way out :P
Quote:Anyways, i know how to pass strings and doubles from lua to c++ functions ( in the parameters ) but is it at all possible to pass a whole table from lua to c++ then disect it in c++?
From reading your query as a whole, I get the feeling that you are simply looking to do:
--lua5
MyTable = {x = 5, y = 10, w = 100, h = 50}
MyCPlusPlusFunction(MyTable)
instead of:
...
MyCPlusPlusFunction(MyTable.x, MyTable.y, MyTable.w, MyTable.h)
...... If that's the case, then here's an example:
int MyCPlusPlusFunction(lua_State *LuaVM){ // the following code is purposely simplified and unoptimized int x,y,w,h; lua_pushstring(LuaVM, "x"); // let Lua know what we're looking for lua_gettable(LuaVM, 1); // let Lua know where we're looking for it x = lua_tonumber(-1); // get requested value (which was placed on top of the stack by lua_gettable) lua_pop(LuaVM, 1); // clean up lua_pushstring(LuaVM, "y"); lua_gettable(LuaVM, 1); y = lua_tonumber(-1); lua_pop(LuaVM, 1); // ... continue for the rest of the value return 0;}This topic is closed to new replies.
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