Re: [wxlua-users] Windows messagepump and wx MainLoop()

On Feb 1, 2008 12:05 AM, A. Klingenstein <kli...@gm...> wrote:
> I have a Windows app in C which can and mainly does load plugins to "do
> the actual work".
>
> One of those plugins is a Lua interpreter allowing users to write their
> scripts. I want to make Lua scripts which can do GUI stuff and not only
> "backend", non-visual things. I wanted to use wxLua for that, but the
> main application already has its own normal Windows event message pump.
> How can I add one or possibly several (from several different Lua GUI
> scripts) mainloops?
>
> Are threads my only solution for this problem or are there alternatives
> I haven't seen yet?

I am not familiar with how to replace the wxWidgets event loop, but
from the messages I've seen on the wx-users mailing list I think
people have been told to use the wxWidgets message loop. However, I
think it would be best to search their mailing list to be sure. If you
can find a way that will work it would be possible to change the wxLua
module to behave differently depending on the value of some unique Lua
global variable.

Regards,
    John