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Original issue 30 created by lua-alchemy on 2008-12-20T20:39:25.000Z:

Lua Alchemy code must compile with at least these GCC flags:

-Werror -Wall -ansi -pedantic

Original issue 31 created by lua-alchemy on 2008-12-20T20:56:12.000Z:

Consider moving to LUA_ENVIRONINDEX from of LUA_REGISTRYINDEX for better
private data encapsulation. Consult Lua Programming Gems.

I have two way to embed lua source to my project now.

1. use [embed(source="mylua.lua")]
2. use dynamic url loader.

But I want create my project mainly use lua, means a lot of lua files, and lua files distributed into release swf files.

The 2nd way can't make into package. the 1st way will write many useless code just for map lua files.

Are there any better way to embed many lua files?

Original issue 39 created by lua-alchemy on 2008-12-21T21:39:57.000Z:

This should be possible:

AS:

lua_wrapper.luaDoString(luaState, "...code...", arg1, arg2, ... argN)

Lua

local arg1, arg2, argN = ...

Original issue 3 created by lua-alchemy on 2008-12-19T05:33:34.000Z:

Copying from the code editor and pasting into the code editor or elsewhere
can result in line returns being lost. Seems to happen more often if you
paste code into the editor and then copy.

Also had to do a serious hack to get formatted code out of the TextArea
properly.

Consider using a JavaScript editor
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_Javascript-based_source_code_editors

Original issue 13 created by lua-alchemy on 2008-12-19T22:51:44.000Z:

Especially see for that "Updated value" string

Original issue 38 created by lua-alchemy on 2008-12-21T21:25:13.000Z:

as3.trace("aaa")
local fn = as3.new("Function", function() as3.trace(" bbb") end)
as3.call(fn, "apply")

Above would not work as Function object is not configurable.

This is needed (looks like) to be able to call removeListener on events:

f = function() some code end
as3.call(button, "addEventListener", f)
as3.call(button, "removeEventListener, f)

Those two fs would not result in the same AS object. Two separate calls to
create_callback() here.

That might work as is, but if it doesn't we could make a as3.function()
that calls the callback code and returns the AS3_Function value

Original issue 17 created by lua-alchemy on 2008-12-19T23:10:58.000Z:

Now

$ make
$ make

builds code twice

Original issue 19 created by lua-alchemy on 2008-12-19T23:12:32.000Z:

So I may say make from any point and get up-to-date build

Original issue 10 created by lua-alchemy on 2008-12-19T20:51:57.000Z:

Need to validate stack in each C function, working with Lua, to ensure
we're not leaking anywhere

Original issue 4 created by lua-alchemy on 2008-12-19T05:45:33.000Z:

We should be able to handle the following:

as3.call(button, "addEventListener", "click",
function (e)
error("BWAHAHA")
end)

Throw an error?

Original issue 23 created by lua-alchemy on 2008-12-20T13:37:57.000Z:

Alchemy does not segfault.

We need to employ some debug allocator so we would be covered from memory
errors. It must be on at least in the debug builds.

One candidate: http://dmalloc.com/

Original issue 36 created by lua-alchemy on 2008-12-21T05:01:44.000Z:

Cleanup TODOs in code

Original issue 37 created by lua-alchemy on 2008-12-21T13:02:05.000Z:

listeners, timers, and other resources aren't cleaned up. By adding an
as3.finalize() that takes a Lua function we can do some cleanup when
luaClose() is called.

Original issue 29 created by lua-alchemy on 2008-12-20T20:25:47.000Z:

Current tests boilerplate code is too huge. Too low signal-to-noise ratio.
Need to employ some wrappers

Original issue 11 created by lua-alchemy on 2008-12-19T20:58:22.000Z:

Make a lua-alchemy.swc so you don't have to include the generated
lua-wrapper.as in all projects

Having to distribute an AS file and SWC is bogus.

Original issue 43 created by lua-alchemy on 2008-12-22T21:29:02.000Z:

We must rename as3.yield() to avoid confusion with Lua coroutines.

Original issue 44 created by lua-alchemy on 2008-12-22T22:00:12.000Z:

(cd lua; make generic CFLAGS="-O3 -Wall -DLUA_USE_POSIX -DLUA_ANSI")

Now Setting Up testAS3Metatable
Now Running testAS3Metatable
Now Tearing Down testAS3Metatable
TestWraper::tearDown(): begin
begin
TestWrapper::tearDown(): error Error # 1506: Указан недопустимый диапазон.

All tests afterwards fail.

Original issue 21 created by lua-alchemy on 2008-12-19T23:52:35.000Z:

For that build set lua_wrapper.gg AND in liblua CFLAGS

-DLUA_USE_APICHECK -Dlua_assert=assert

And ensure assert is not killed by some NDEBUG.

Original issue 35 created by lua-alchemy on 2008-12-21T04:59:47.000Z:

MXML is a declarative syntax that makes creation of a GUI very quick. Lua
tables should be able to do something similar with the right library.

Original issue 28 created by lua-alchemy on 2008-12-20T20:24:20.000Z:

Example:

Instead of

public function testAS3Type():void
{
  var script:String = ( <![CDATA[
    ba = as3.new("flash.utils::ByteArray")
    s = as3.new("String")
    return as3.type(ba), as3.type(s)
    ]]> ).toString();
  var stack:Array = lua_wrapper.luaDoString(luaState, script);
  assertTrue(stack[0]);
  assertEquals("flash.utils::ByteArray", stack[1]);
  assertEquals("String", stack[2]);
  assertEquals(3, stack.length);
}

Should be

public function testAS3Type():void
{
  var script:String = ( <![CDATA[
    assert(as3.type(as3.new("flash.utils::ByteArray") ==

"flash.utils::ByteArray")
assert(as3.type(as3.new("String")) == "String")
]]> ).toString();
var stack:Array = lua_wrapper.luaDoString(luaState, script);
assertTrue(stack[0]);
assertEquals(1, stack.length);
}

We may want to expose some test.assertEquals to Lua from the test wrapper.

Original issue 25 created by lua-alchemy on 2008-12-20T17:23:07.000Z:

We may make Lua run faster if we change default allocator. (This is
not for first Lua Alchemy versions of course.)

Lua allocates a lot of small fixed-size chunks for tables.

One allocator that works nice with Lua (per user reports) is dmalloc:

http://g.oswego.edu/dl/html/malloc.html

Need to experiment with that once benchmarks would be ready.

may be performance better?

Original issue 1 created by lua-alchemy on 2008-12-19T05:19:44.000Z:

lua_wrapper.gg is getting too long and hard to manage

• bridge_as3_c.c/h - The C<->AS3 bridge helper functions
• bridge_lua_c.c/h - Any Lua<->C bridge helper funcitons
• bridge_as3_lua.c/h - Any AS3<->C bridge helper functions
• callbacks_as3_lua.c/h - Handle creation and management of Lua function
  callbacks returned on stack

var utf8_script:String = 'as3.trace("日本語")';
luaAlchemy.doString(utf8_script);

This as3 script throws an error.

luaDoString:1: unfinished string near '<eof>'

please fix it :)

http://lua-users.org/wiki/LuaUnicode

Original issue 15 created by lua-alchemy on 2008-12-19T23:01:53.000Z:

Remove all TODOs from Wiki and put them here in Issues

Original issue 42 created by lua-alchemy on 2008-12-22T21:00:14.000Z:

Demo should not be primary source of documentation

Original issue 6 created by lua-alchemy on 2008-12-19T05:48:34.000Z:

Throw an error?

Or at least consider doing so

Original issue 33 created by lua-alchemy on 2008-12-20T22:49:24.000Z:

Rename FluintLuaTests folder to FluintLuaAlchemyTests. Fix the build files.

Original issue 2 created by lua-alchemy on 2008-12-19T05:21:49.000Z:

Make sure all of the AS3 objects created in lua_gluegen.gg and as3.xxx
calls are freed

Which version of lua does lua alchemy use? I've been all over the google project page and this one and can't seem to find it. I'm assuming 5.1.

Original issue 16 created by lua-alchemy on 2008-12-19T23:09:24.000Z:

see $ alias output

Original issue 9 created by lua-alchemy on 2008-12-19T20:29:40.000Z:

Split could be:

• as3.xxx interface
• type conversion
• Lua function callbacks
• someday ... sugar tests

Original issue 14 created by lua-alchemy on 2008-12-19T22:56:21.000Z:

Implement vsprintf-based sztracef() wrapper on sztrace() to be used in
debug output

Original issue 41 created by lua-alchemy on 2008-12-22T20:05:21.000Z:

1. Ignore (pass through) non-as3 types.
2. Convert all arguments passed (make variadic).

Original issue 12 created by lua-alchemy on 2008-12-19T21:50:41.000Z:

Should be full print() imitation, printing to Flash trace output

Original issue 34 created by lua-alchemy on 2008-12-20T23:22:42.000Z:

Extract Pdumpstack body to lstack.c

Original issue 5 created by lua-alchemy on 2008-12-19T05:46:54.000Z:

http://www.lua.org/manual/5.1/manual.html#lua_atpanic

Default Lua behavior (calling exit()) is not an option. In C++ I
usually throw an exception...

Original issue 27 created by lua-alchemy on 2008-12-20T20:19:14.000Z:

Type suffix is a bit misleading

Original issue 8 created by lua-alchemy on 2008-12-19T05:55:53.000Z:

Example:
Current: as3.call(myvar, "function", param1)
Sugar: myvar.function(param1)

Original issue 22 created by lua-alchemy on 2008-12-20T12:12:20.000Z:

Must not iterate over stack withot popping. Must work with stack as with
stack -- only pushes and pops. Current situation gives us a lot of grief.

Rewrite those as3_value_from_lua_stack() etc.

Original issue 24 created by lua-alchemy on 2008-12-20T17:14:43.000Z:

To allow comfortable reuse of existing Lua code with Lua Alchemy, we
must support following functions:

• loadfile()
• dofile()
• require() and package.* for Lua sources
• require() and package.* for Lua C (or other language) shared
  library modules, compiled in Alchemy.

This proposal also affects these functions:

• io.open()
• io.input()
• io.output()
• io.tmpfile()
• os.remove()
• os.rename()

I propose to put "virtual file system" wrapper on the file (both code
and data) access. VFS targets:

• Files, bundled into the current SWF (read-only). Should be
  configurable from Lua, C and/or ActionScript so prefix could be
  removed to ease porting of existing sources:

  dofile("thisswf://path/file.lua")
  local file = assert(io.open("thisswf://path/data.dat", "r"))
  AS3.io_set_default_prefix("thisswf://path")
  dofile("file.lua") -- same file as above

Default prefix setting should support all of available options. Note
from the Lua point of view AS3.io_set_default_prefix("path") is
conceptually the same as os.exec("cd path").

• Files, bundled into other SWFs (read-only; available SWFs added with
  special API function from Lua, C and/or ActionScript). TODO: Ensure
  that no AS3 SWF load specifics would inhibit this.

  AS3.io_add_swf("swf-name", "URI")
  dofile("swf://swf-name/path/file.lua")
  local file = assert(io.open("swf://swf-name/path/data.dat", "r"))

• Files, located on the local Flash storage (read/write).

  dofile("storage://path/file.lua")
  local file = assert(io.open("storage://path/data.dat", "r+"))

NOTE: Loading code from local storage seems to be silly and
insecure. Probably we should disable it.

• Files, uploaded by user with open/save file dialog (read for
  open/write for save).

  dofile("open://") -- A lua script runner
  local read_file = assert(io.open("open://", "r"))
  local write_file = assert(io.open("save://", "w"))

NOTE: I do not like this filename-less notation much. Any ideas?

TODO: There could be problems with that save:// files would likely
to allowed to save only once. So the actual save is to be done only
when handle is closed.

• Files, located in the file system (read/write within sandbox limits;
  no limits in console mode).

  dofile("file:///Users/Me/myfile.lua")
  local file =
  assert(io.open("C:\Windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts", "r+"))

Lua's require() does not separate shared library modules from the
plain Lua modules. See
[http://www.lua.org/manual/5.1/manual.html#pdf-require docs] on how it
works.

We should replace package.loaders contents with our functions which
know about our VFS. Once we have that and have working loadfile(),
all would have to do is implement
[http://www.lua.org/manual/5.1/manual.html#pdf-package.loadlib package.loadlib] to load shared libraries -- this should be enough.

Original issue 20 created by lua-alchemy on 2008-12-19T23:13:39.000Z:

In Alchemy v.5a gluegen does not return error code on failure. (May be
better to get rid of gluegen at all.)

Original issue 40 created by lua-alchemy on 2008-12-22T13:23:23.000Z:

save: local str = string.dump(function() return "BOO!" end)
load (on other-endian machine): assert(assert(loadstring(str))() == "BOO!")

Quote from Duncan Cross:

Should Lua bytecode generated by Lua Alchemy be compatible across all
browsers/platforms (to be run by another instance of Lua Alchemy), or are
there still possible endianness compatibility problems? I understand that
Lua's function dump relies on the endianness of the machine that's running
it on, making it nonportable. From what I know of ActionScript ByteArrays,
they do have an "endian" property for reading and writing various number
types, but what I don't know is whether this defaults to the native
endianness or has a fixed default, or whether this is even relevant in Lua
Alchemy's case.

Original issue 26 created by lua-alchemy on 2008-12-20T20:04:33.000Z:

If as3.type() does not understand the type (it is not an as3 userdata), it
should return nil. Like io.type() does.

Original issue 18 created by lua-alchemy on 2008-12-19T23:11:51.000Z:

Looks like jvm is started more than once. There may be workarounds

Original issue 32 created by lua-alchemy on 2008-12-20T22:45:32.000Z:

Most of the test/FluintLuaTests and demo/LuaAlchemyDemo build.xml files are
identical. Extract common ant code to make creation of new projects easier.

Original issue 7 created by lua-alchemy on 2008-12-19T05:52:54.000Z:

What steps will reproduce the problem?

1. Run the Box test in the demo multiple times

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?

Expected: The box should move smoothly.

Actual: The box jumps around because we are receiving multiple timer events
and running the same function for each.

Memory addresses are reused in Alchemy so tracking pointers won't work.
Need each lua_state to track all of their function callbacks, verify they
are valid when calling them, and then cleanup when complete.

Original issue 45 created by lua-alchemy on 2008-12-22T22:35:32.000Z:

See http://code.google.com/p/lua-alchemy/wiki/TypeConversions