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C code callable from Lua - Mk 3
Other Lua Subjects example from a Well House Consultants training course
More on Other Lua Subjects [link] Source code: candy.c Module: U117
/* This is the third (of three) examples of calling from
a Lua script to a C library. In this example, we have registered multiple C functions with the Lua, and we have also passed in a table which is intrinically much harder to handle as it doesn't map directly to a C type. */ #include "lua.h" #include "lauxlib.h" #include <stdio.h> /* The peardrop function is called with a single numeric parameter, and it returns a number */ static int peardrop ( lua_State *L) { printf ("Roses are Red\n"); double trouble = lua_tonumber(L, 1); lua_pushnumber(L, 16.0 - trouble); return 1; } /* The humbug function is called with a TABLE as its parameter (or it should be!). It extracts the element with the key "hq", and returns 123 more than that number (the sum added is just done to demonstrate the C doing something! */ static int humbug ( lua_State *L) { printf ("Violets are Blue\n"); /* Is it a table? */ if (lua_istable(L,-1)) { printf("Table passed to humbug\n"); /* Looking up based on the key */ /* Add key we're interested in to the stack*/ lua_pushstring(L,"hq"); /* Have Lua functions look up the keyed value */ lua_gettable(L, -2 ); /* Extract the result which is on the stack */ double workon = lua_tonumber(L,-1); /* Tidy up the stack - get rid of the extra we added*/ lua_pop(L,1); /* We can now use the result */ lua_pushnumber(L, workon + 123.0 ); } else { printf("Not a Table passed to humbug\n"); lua_pushnumber(L, 12.0 ); } return 1; } /* This registers "dothis" and "dothat" with Lua, so that when they're called they run the humbug and peardrop functions respectively */ int luaopen_candy ( lua_State *L) { static const luaL_reg Map [] = { {"dothis", humbug}, {"dothat", peardrop}, {NULL,NULL} } ; /* dothis and dothat are put in the extratasks table */ luaL_register(L, "extratasks", Map); return 1; } Learn about this subject
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