CEGUI (Crazy Eddie's GUI) Forums

Another point is: if you are using Lua scripting for the GUI is likely that you are using Lua in your app. You will therefore probably (or should be) be using the same version of Lua. This is another reason why Lua should a DLL that both the app and the GUI module link to. Lua is creates a new state...

Thanks for the tips on how to implement a new resource provider. I'll have a look at this at some point. WRT to resource sizes. Yes, the installer may compress resources for you, but why take up extra disc space unnecessarily? Another nice thing about zipping is having packages of data, so e.g. you ...

XML files have a tendency to get quite bulky and large. It would great if they could zipped and read from zip files.

I've just started using CEGUI and it looks pretty good. Well done for the work so far. :D One thing I've noticed is it looks like Lua is linked statically, along with tolua, into the scripting module. I think these two should really be DLLs. lua.dll and tolua.dll. This is so the host application can...