Re: [wxlua-users] Preliminary wxLua Binaries for 2.8.12 for MSW

[John L. <jla...@gm...>]

On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 2:51 AM, Paul K <pau...@ya...> wrote:
> Hi John,
>
> Couple of other things. The new version seems to be using
> significantly less memory. When I can get the app to start, it's only
> using about 7.8M memory, where the old one was using 13-14M. This may
> be related to the reduced size of the dlls.

That is good, Lua people seem obsessed with size.

> Also, the error message box is gone and the app seems to be failing
> silently where the old one was reporting errors in a nice dialog with
> wxLua title and a message "Lua: error while running chunk". This was
> one of the primary reasons we stayed with the binaries we are
> currently using and I'd love to have that error message back.

People complained about the error box. I plan to replace it with a
text console (like wxLua -c) so that when running error message will
stream to it. This will be something that in Lua you can enable or
disable it, e.g. wxlua.ShowConsoleOnPrint(true/false) or something.

> The error messages we used to be getting seem to be coming from
> "wxString wxlua_LUA_ERR_msg(int LUA_ERRx)" function in wxlstate.cpp
> with the value LUA_ERRRUN. I'm not sure why the new version doesn't
> trigger/report that anymore.

I will look into this...

Regards,
    John