The Gods are just, and of our pleasant vices / make
instruments to plague us
[W.Shakespeare, King Lear, act V, scene III]
The software downlodable from this page is copyrighted freeware
distributed 'as-is' with no support or guarantee of any kind; it can be
used both in free and commercial applications: please read the relevant
license for details about usage and distribution.
I plan (or rather, hope) to eventually publish on this page some
of
the tools I designed for my own use over many years, even if presently
it looks rather sparsely populated (I'd have to find time to clean them
up, add a suitable license, and so on).
Lua is a powerful, flexible and
elegant
dynamic language, designed and written by Waldemar Celes, Roberto
Ierusalimschy and Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo at TeCGraf, PUC-Rio in
Brazil.
gpeddler 2
gpeddler 2 is a primitive TSP evolutionary solver written to evaluate wxLua,
a Lua interface to the wxWindows portable interface library. It
contains examples of:
Coroutines for cooperative multitasking.
Buffered drawing for flicker-free animation.
A simple approach to object-oriented Lua programming
(without metamethods).
Using closures in callbacks.
The HTML documentation, detailing the above points, can also be
read from within the program itself, thanks to the HTML rendering
capabilities included in wxWindows.
gpeddler 2 works under the systems supported by wxLua (currently Windows
and Linux).
Requirements: wxLua 2.1 or
later (Lua and wxWindows are included in the wxLua executable).
Here is a screenshot of gpeddler 2 running under GTK (Linux RedHat
8.0a):
Glua
Glua is a set of macros and functions designed to help a C programmer
writing Lua-C interface functions by hand, while retaining
error
control and high efficiency. Its name means "Lua-C glue".
(actually, I designed it because I didn't know of the Lua auxiliary
library...)
Requirements: Lua4.0 (basic
functionality with Lua 5.0 can be obtained with a few changes I did for
my own use, but I don't like the idea of releasing a version with
limited functionality; email me if you are interested).
Bare-bones working examples are included.
GluaX
: Asko Kauppi designed GluaX, a powerful tool derived
from Glua that adds many capabilities to Glua (including Lua 5.0
compatibility) and also includes provisions for
runtime loadable modules; the latest version of Glua-X can be found at this
page.
Other tools
Be patient. Be very patient. I have more software than spare time (and
willingness to clean it up for publication...).
Updated 31/10/11 by Enrico Colombini (erix@erix.it)
