Re: adding new primitive types to luabind

Hi,

There was a discussion on the same topic some time ago:
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=gvqije%24736%241%40ger.gmane.org&forum_name=luabind-user

On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 5:14 PM, Ilya Martynov <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I've just started using luabind for my project and run into the following
> issue. C++ API I'm trying to expose to lua uses 64 bit integer type which
> luabind cannot use unless I specially register this type as a class. But if
> I register it as a class I have to convert lua numbers to this class
> explicitly in my lua code. Ideally I want to be able to add somehow it as a
> native type so that luabind would be able to resolve calls like
> "c_func_with_64bit_int_parameter(1234)" automatically without explicit
> conversion. Basically I want to be able to use this type in the same way as
> other numeric types which are supported by luabind natively (i.e. int and
> double). Is it possible at all?
>
> --
> Ilya Martynov, [email protected]
> CTO IPonWEB (UK) Ltd
>
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