Re: [Libqtlua-list] libqtlua and require

[minicz]

Thank you for the answer. I understood your objective with libqtlua. I 
thought it is a binding.

What I want is a binding to use Qt from lua. Do have a sugestion?

Regards,

Marcio Minicz


Alexandre Becoulet escreveu:
> On Tuesday 16 February 2010 23:01:40 minicz wrote:
>
> Hi,
>  
>   
> > I like to know if is possible use libqtlua with a "standard" Lua
> > interpreter.
> >     
>
> QtLua links against any installed lua library and doesn't include the lua 
> interpreter code so that you can use a standard or modified lua interpreter.
>
> From the mail subject I guess you want to know if libqtlua is a lua module 
> usable with require.
>
> QtLua is not a lua binding to use Qt from lua, even if it allows writing some 
> parts of a Qt user interface in lua. Although it would probably be possible to 
> make libqtlua a lua module, it would not give you access to the whole Qt API 
> without writing some C++ code or augmenting the embedded "qt" lua library.
>
> QtLua is a script engine for Qt. It is designed to extend a Qt application 
> using lua by exposing some Qt and application specific objects to embedded lua 
> scripts. The purpose of QtLua is to make this process simple for the C++ 
> application developer and to let him choose which part of the application must 
> be exposed to lua scripts.
>
> Best,
>
>