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Hi !

Hoping to ask advice of anyone that has more experience working with DynamicLua or similar library in c# - i think more c# related though...

Persistence / referencing to or from other class/namespace:-

From what i Understand about dynamic types (which is zero) they do not persist, and only accessible locally, within the class, so ive been creating some methods, to perform whatevr queries.

If i wanted to access the same Lua instance from other namespace/class without passing that class as a reference how would it work. If i created new dynamic Lua instance in the same application, would it connect to the initial tables created from other instance, or is it completely seperate ? what is best way ofdoing this, without explicitly creating a new instance of the class that contains that main instance - when i make that class static, or the dynamic lua instance itself - it doesnt seem to work (seems to be only way i know that could make it accessible throughout app)

Seperately:- is there any preferred method,to get some manner of printout of the entire Lua DB, tables/funcs etc. something like a json structure,or just list of tables/func names etc, (Iterate through, use GetDynamicMemberNames ?)

Finally:- why have i seen some cases of guys creating main tables through a new Object[] rather than just stringName of table, or in Queries, referencing the main Table/Root Through testing isee that it can be used to create hierarchy, but is there any other reason im not aware of

Google failed, & not much activity on DynLua page, so any help appreciated

Cheers

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atom0s wrote:In terms of an active Lua implementation for C#, I would recommend checking out MoonSharp:
http://www.moonsharp.org/

The developer is active and the most recent update was pushed 2016-02-09
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In my opinion, it is one of the better implementations in terms of speed and optimization for Lua < > C#. However in a large scale project that heavily uses Lua you will notice some massive overhead and slow down. (If you need a true implementation of Lua in your project, go with a true Lua implementation in C/C++.)

Dynamic in C# is not restricted to classes only, you can use it anywhere. You can read up more on the dynamic keyword here:
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd264736.aspx

This can lead to serious overhead and lag if you are constantly talking between the C# app and Lua.

Mate, thank you for such a detailed reply, wasnt expecting as much, so cheers

I am definately going to give it a go - currently ive found some workarounds here there, but its all such a headache, and there is virtually no way of properly tracking, and handling exceptions with DynLua, just a craptonne of Unknown fatal this error that error spewing out, half the time, and cant even begin to tell where its coming from :/ have to literally test each tables existence and double check vars on setting to even be sure it worked, mucho headache