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[wxlua-users] Can wxString be used in wxLua

[Ryan P. <rpu...@gm...>]

I have tried to use wxString in a wxLua script and I can't get it to work.
Is there a special way to create the variable. Here is an example of what I
tried so far.

filename = wx.wxString( "Test String" )
if ( not filename:IsEmpty() ) then
    print( "Cancel was pressed" )
else
    print( filename )
end

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Regards,
Ryan
RJP Computing

Re: [wxlua-users] Can wxString be used in wxLua

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

On 1/18/07, Ryan Pusztai <rpu...@gm...> wrote:
> I have tried to use wxString in a wxLua script and I can't get it to work.
> Is there a special way to create the variable. Here is an example of what I
> tried so far.
>
> filename = wx.wxString( "Test String" )
> if ( not filename:IsEmpty() ) then
>     print( "Cancel was pressed" )
> else
>     print( filename )
> end
>

wxString is not used in wxLua. Someone had asked that it be added for
some special purpose so you can create it and get the string back from
it, but lua strings are used exclusively. This means that any
functions that takes or returns a wxString uses a lua string. You can
use the lua string.XXX functions to get most of what wxString offers
and it should work faster since it doesn't have to convert it in the
case where you've build wxWidgets for unicode.

http://wxlua.sourceforge.net/docs/wxluaref.html#wxString

Regards,
    John Labenski

Re: [wxlua-users] Can wxString be used in wxLua

[Ryan P. <rpu...@gm...>]

On 1/18/07, John Labenski <jla...@gm...> wrote:
>
> wxString is not used in wxLua. Someone had asked that it be added for
> some special purpose so you can create it and get the string back from
> it, but lua strings are used exclusively. This means that any
> functions that takes or returns a wxString uses a lua string. You can
> use the lua string.XXX functions to get most of what wxString offers
> and it should work faster since it doesn't have to convert it in the
> case where you've build wxWidgets for unicode.
>
> http://wxlua.sourceforge.net/docs/wxluaref.html#wxString


Thanks for the clarification.
-- 
Regards,
Ryan
RJP Computing