Lua Quick Start Guide

LuaRef

Lua Bridge is not just a one-way street, after all, it is a bridge. To read Lua values in C, Lua Bridge provides the LuaRef class. A LuaRef variable can hold any value that a Lua variable can. The getGlobal(lua_State*, const char*) function will return any global Lua variable as a LuaRef value. Consider the following Lua code:

foo = "Hello, world"bar = 42debug = function()    print (foo .. " & " .. bar)end

These variables can be retrieved in C or C++ by using the getGlobal function. A LuaRef object can even be called as a function, if it is assigned to one. The following code demonstrates this:

LuaRef foo = getGlobal(L, "foo");LuaRef bar = getGlobal(L, "bar");LuaRef debug = getGlobal(L, "debug");bar = 57;debug();

LuaRef variables have ...