Comments on: Lua for ActionScript Developers: Crash Course

By: JesterXL

JesterXL — Wed, 10 Aug 2011 22:25:14 +0000

An updated article by another Flash game dev goes over this same subject; good angle as well as how to handle random numbers.

By: Ian Chia

Ian Chia — Sun, 13 Feb 2011 10:35:43 +0000

Good starting point for Lua/Corona OOP here:

Put Some OOP in Your App — Part 1: Creating a Class
http://planetlua.squarespace.com/journal/2011/1/21/put-some-oop-in-your-app-part-1-creating-a-class.html

Looks like a bunch of us old-skool Flashers are all re-checking out Corona now that it’s gotten to a point of usable maturity, huh? (-;

– Ian

By: Greg Burch

Greg Burch — Sat, 12 Feb 2011 19:59:56 +0000

Great article, although I debate that the original authors of the language didn’t intend OOP. The concept of tables was written to be a very generic way to layer any type of functionality. OOP in LUA is pretty simple. You should be able to write your own OOP library in a few hours, or download one of the many available libraries to jump start your dev.

By: John Polacek

John Polacek — Fri, 11 Feb 2011 16:01:11 +0000

Here’s an interesting one.

In AS, to get the length of an array:
trace(array.length);

In Lua:
print(#array)

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