[Wxlua-users] Re: wxLua as a 5.1 binary module

[thegeek <ok...@on...>]

> 
> On 3/13/06, thegeek <okrog@...> wrote:
> > So far I've been able to upgrade wxLua to lua 5.1, works great except for 
some
> > of the wxlua lua-code, which does ofcourse use table.getn and other 
deprecated
> > functions/syntaxes, but i tested with some of the samples(modified for lua 
5.1)
> > and it worked with no problem.
> > So I have all the wxlua libs compiled with lua 5.1 and just need to 
integrate
> > this into the lslua litestep plugin. This could prove to be a little beyond 
me,
> 
> There were no changes in the C code? That's good to know.

I did ofcourse have to add the newthread coroutine code back in, and a few 
functions changed name; load* and a few others. The garbage collection has also 
changed, and the dobuffer function too. However, the changes were all in all 
very minor.


> 
> > so I'll probably be looking forward to your next release.
> > Good luck:)
> 
> I've already updated some of the lua code to work with 5.1, it was
> suprisingly easy with this little function. :)
> 
> if table.getn == nil then
>     function table.getn(atable)
>         local count = 0
>         while atable[count+1] do
>             count = count + 1
>         end
>         return count
>     end
> end
> 

You'll also have to update all for statements, since they now need pair() or 
ipairs().

> I'll have to wait 'till next week to try the C code update.
> 
> Regards,
>     John Labenski
> 
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