[GEM-dev] pdlua + luagl + Gem (was: automated drawing in gem?)

[Claude Heiland-Allen]

Hello GEM-dev!

IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote:
 > nevertheless, ask claude  :-)

I just subscribed to this list, I'm reading the recent archives, so if I 
miss something in particular then let me know. Apologies for breaking 
your threading mail clients ;)

IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote:
 > the example works, but pdlua gives a lot of warnings and you cannot yet
 > create a full-fledged (that passes on the GemList) gem-object in lua
 > (both things because of the way pointers are handled)

True.  I'm not sure what to do about pointers, on the one hand pd 
internal objects seem to do some kind of mystic voodoo for pointers, on 
the other many (all?) external objects just do whatever they like.  I 
guess I'll follow the crowd and handle pointers the way other externals do.

marius schebella wrote:
 > when I create a [lua] object in pd i get an error

I don't have any Mac OS X machines to test with, so it's probably a bug 
in the pdlua Makefile.  I'll look at some other Makefiles to see what 
special voodoo OS X requires (I think the bug is that lua.pd_darwin 
should be able to see symbols in the pd executable, but can't for some 
reason).

Moreover, creating a [lua] object isn't supposed to work yet (it's 
intended to be used with -lib lua) - but I will add that feature soon.


Also, I just want to note that pdlua is very fresh/new/alpha, and will 
probably change incompatibly at various points until something vaguely 
useable emerges.

Thanks,


Claude
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