hi to all, i'm new to this forum.. but is some time that i get into AngelScript, and i like that very much, Andreas, you done a excellent work! anyway i've started going into troubles when using some c methods that have references to be filled. i know already that we can use out references for this but the problem i found is somehow interesting. i have a class, RegularExpression, that have a method like this, nothing fancy but passing a index of the found string, it will fill out the indexes of that string inside the searched string. String getStringOffset( int num, int& start, int& end ); i've registered the type and method: e->RegisterObjectMethod("RegExp", "String getStringOffset(int, int& out, int& out)", asMETHODPR(RegularExpression,getStringOffsetSize), asCALL_THISCALL); but when i call this from the script i get strange behaviours on the first parameter passed (which is a index and set up by the script just before calling it): then in script i continue: void main() { RegExp re("\\d{3}"); int found = re.match("123.345"); if ( found >= 0 ) { String s = ""; int start; int end; for( int i=0; i<found; i++ ) { String result = re.getStringOffset(i,start,end); s += "'" + result + "' - (" + start + "," + end + ") \n" ; } warning("what i found",s); } } i found 2 strings offsets, so RegularExpression.matches() == 2, but nothing happens (in c++ is working nicely). if i debug and step into the (c++) function, i can see that the first call to getStringOffset, parameter i is not 0 as expected but 149419568, then returning always nothing at all (cause is out of bounds of regexp indexes). so i've made 3 functions for regexp (in c++) that the first get start offset, the second the end offset and the third the string, and none are using out references. then the indexes in the for loop are right. what i'm doing wrong here ?

actually i have a utf8 compliant String class in my framework. then i have modeled a wrapper (after scriptstring addon) that let me call my real string class. it is registered with all the operators, addref - release, various constructors... i've not the last one cause i'm @ work, but this may be useful

asString is a wrapped asString around my String class:

class asString
{
public:
asString();
asString(const asString &other);
asString(const char s);
asString(const char *s);
asString(const tchar s);
asString(const tchar *s);
asString(const String &s);

void addRef();
void release();

unsigned int length();

asString& operator=(const asString &other);
asString& operator+=(const asString &other);

static void registerObjectType(asIScriptEngine *engine);

String buffer;

protected:
~asString();
int refCount;
};





// This function allocates memory for the string object
static void *StringAlloc(int)
{
return new char[sizeof(asString)];
}

// This function deallocates the memory for the string object
static void StringFree(void *p)
{
jassert( p );
delete p;
}

// This is the string factory that creates new strings for the script
static asString *StringFactory(asUINT length, const char *s)
{
// Return a script handle to a new string
return new asString(s);
}

// This is a wrapper for the default asString constructor, since
// it is not possible to take the address of the constructor directly
static void ConstructString(asString *thisPointer)
{
// Construct the string in the memory received
new(thisPointer) asString();
}

static void ConstructStringByString(const String& text, asString *thisPointer)
{
// Construct the string in the memory received
new(thisPointer) asString(text);
}





// Register the type
r = engine->RegisterObjectType("String", sizeof(asString), asOBJ_CLASS_CDA); jassert( r >= 0 );

// Register the object operator overloads
// Note: We don't have to register the destructor, since the object uses reference counting
r = engine->RegisterObjectBehaviour("String", asBEHAVE_CONSTRUCT, "void f()", asFUNCTION(ConstructString), asCALL_CDECL_OBJLAST); jassert( r >= 0 );
r = engine->RegisterObjectBehaviour("String", asBEHAVE_CONSTRUCT, "void f(const String& in)", asFUNCTIONPR(ConstructStringByString, (const String&, asString *), void), asCALL_CDECL_OBJLAST);
r = engine->RegisterObjectBehaviour("String", asBEHAVE_ADDREF, "void f()", asMETHOD(asString,addRef), asCALL_THISCALL); jassert( r >= 0 );
r = engine->RegisterObjectBehaviour("String", asBEHAVE_RELEASE, "void f()", asMETHOD(asString,release), asCALL_THISCALL); jassert( r >= 0 );
r = engine->RegisterObjectBehaviour("String", asBEHAVE_ASSIGNMENT, "String &f(const String &in)", asMETHODPR(asString, operator =, (const asString&), asString&), asCALL_THISCALL); jassert( r >= 0 );
r = engine->RegisterObjectBehaviour("String", asBEHAVE_ADD_ASSIGN, "String &f(const String &in)", asMETHODPR(asString, operator+=, (const asString&), asString&), asCALL_THISCALL); jassert( r >= 0 );

...


last, the regular expression is just returning a new String object (not a pointer) that returns from (c++) String.substr() call...

[Edited by - kunitoki on March 20, 2006 4:59:32 PM]

oh, for sure i've mistaken a bit what has to be returned, i wrote in c++ to return a String, but the String returned from the registered function for the script wasn't intended to be c++ String but should have been asString, or script registered "String". i've a String class, wrapped as asString to make it register in script like my original String... i can drive mad out of this ;)
anyway, thanx andreas , you cleared me like like a iron soap... now i follow the right way... ;D

oh, for sure i've mistaken a bit what has to be returned, i wrote in c++ to return a String, but the String returned from the registered function for the script wasn't intended to be c++ String but should have been asString, or script registered "String". i've a String class, wrapped as asString to make it register in script like my original String... i can drive mad out of this ;)
anyway, thanx andreas , you cleared me like like a iron soap... now i follow the right way... ;D

what is strange indeed is the way i registered the RegularExpression to the script. i have my class, then used that for building the object type.

c++ ------------------------------------------

RegularExpression();
RegularExpression( const String& pattern );
~RegularExpression();

int match( const String& subject );
int match( const String& pattern, const String& subject );
String getStringOffsetSize( int num, int& start, int& end );

registration ---------------------------------

r = engine->RegisterObjectType("RegExp", sizeof(RegularExpression), asOBJ_CLASS_CD); jassert( r >= 0 );
r = engine->RegisterObjectBehaviour("RegExp", asBEHAVE_CONSTRUCT, "void f()", asFUNCTION(ConstructRegex), asCALL_CDECL_OBJLAST); jassert( r >= 0 );
r = engine->RegisterObjectBehaviour("RegExp", asBEHAVE_CONSTRUCT, "void f(const String& in)", asFUNCTION(ConstructRegexByString), asCALL_CDECL_OBJLAST);
r = engine->RegisterObjectBehaviour("RegExp", asBEHAVE_DESTRUCT, "void f()", asFUNCTION(DestructRegex), asCALL_CDECL_OBJLAST); jassert( r >= 0 );
r = engine->RegisterObjectMethod("RegExp", "int match(const String& in)", asMETHODPR(RegularExpression,match,(const String&),int), asCALL_THISCALL); jassert( r >= 0 );
r = engine->RegisterObjectMethod("RegExp", "int match(const String& in,const String& in)", asMETHODPR(RegularExpression,match,(const String&,const String&),int), asCALL_THISCALL); jassert( r >= 0 );
r = engine->RegisterObjectMethod("RegExp", "String getStringOffsetSize(int, int& out, int& out)", asMETHODPR(RegularExpression,getStringOffsetSize), asCALL_THISCALL); jassert( r >= 0 );
}


what is interesting is that i registered the member functions passing c++ String not really asString as parameters. and the match functions was working ! maybe because i've declared as member of asString my c++ String like the first and only member variable ?

yeah, maybe you can clarify me on some things. i started using angelcode because of its simplicity, you don't have to read a llot of documentation or references, nor rewrite all of you code twice to embed and publish objects and classes to the script engine, this is clever. anyway, apart from some standalone object that have clearly no interface with others ones (i.e. using/returning basic type like integers, floats..) that i can declare in script directly without any wrapper class, i found that if i have a class A that interacts with class B and wants to publish to the engine as scriptA and scriptB, i noticed that i have to write 2 wrapper classes, and cannot use the main ones, because in the function sign there is the expectation to have class A not scriptA (and for B is the same)... tho is easy indeed to write those wrapper classes, but hey when u got say a hundred functions to publish isn't a fast approach. i have thought about deriving the classes, say i use asString : public String, and then register the methods as usually, but without making the wrapper functions that does nothing more than a simple (asString.innerString)->cppMethod(asString.innerString). you have some advice for me on this side ? i would like to know what you think is the best, easy and fast to write approach for registering mutually interacting classes in the engine.

regards, lucio