LuaCocoa: LuaCocoa Main Page (original) (raw)

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LuaCocoa is the next-generation successor to the LuaObjCBridge for Objective-C 2.0.It uses BridgeSupport, libffi, and a whole lot of blood, sweat, and tears to bridge both C and Objective-C including objects, constants, enums, functions, and structs.

It is similar to PyObjC, RubyCocoa, and JSCocoa.

LuaCocoa is under the MIT license.

Official Site: http://playcontrol.net/opensource/LuaCocoa

Doxygen Documentation is provided for working on the C and Objective-C side of the bridge. See both the documentation for the LuaCocoa Objective-C class and the support C functions.

See also:

LuaCocoa LuaCocoa.h

For working on the Lua side of the bridge, see the Documentation page on the official site and the Samples included in the source repository, official distribution.

Dedication: In memory of my mother who lost her long fight to GIST cancer. (Much of this code was written during long waits at the hospital.) http://playcontrol.net/opensource/LuaCocoa/history-of-lua-cocoa-gist-c.html

Features:

• Full bridging to classes/objects, C functions, selectors, structs, enums, constants
• 32-bit and 64-bit support (uses new Obj-C 2.0 runtime), PowerPC & Intel
• Support Obj-C garbage collection and non garbage collection modes
• Subclassing NSObjects in Lua
• Obj-C/C APIs and easily embeddable framework to allow easy integration into existing Obj-C applications
• Scripting Bridge support to allow Applescript control written in Lua scripts instead of Applescript
• Conversion of Lua tables to NSArray and NSDictionary
• Metamethods on NSArray and NSDictionary to respond like Lua tables
• Convenience metamethods to access struct fields
• Auto-boxing of numbers and structs into NSNumbers and NSValues when necessary
• Setter dot notation in Lua
• Proper handling of BOOL types to native Lua boolean types
• Return pass-by-reference out parameters as multiple Lua return values