Re: [RaceIntoSpace-developer] Lua-Support in Branch

[<hol...@gm...>]

hol...@gm... schrieb:
> As you might have noticed I committed a number of changes today. They
> will allow writing to the screen using Lua.
> The commits I've sent are rather weak. You need to have the Lua in
> ./scripts/menu.lua for it to work and I've used strcpy. I will fix these
> later on but I was too anxious to show this to you.

I did some more fiddling with Lua over the last few days.
The Lua-script will now draw a primitive button just like the c-function
ShBox() [main.c] does.
It does not use the ShBox-function but the underlying gr* functions.

I plan to enhance the example until it can draw the main menu mostly in
Lua. During this quest I stumbled over the "letters.dat" file which
appears to contain graphics for... well... letters.
Is that correct?

With the graphics-interface exposed to Lua I plan to dispatch certain
tasks to Lua. For example I'd love to just command Lua to
'drawSpaceport()' and it will start doing so, picking up the needed
information through get-functions.

The next step would be to open the code up to allow Lua to _change_ that
very data. This will enable real modding capabilities.


Cheers,
Fabian