Re: class method binding problem

Ah, right.  I ran into that problem too with binding various ogre classes and methods.

What I tended to do, if I did not want to have to give all the parameters in Lua scripts, was make a "proxy" function, and bind that as one of the class methods.  For example something like:

void SceneNode_yaw( SceneNode* self, Radian angle )
{
  self->yaw( angle );
}

....

module(L)
[
  class_<SceneNode>("SceneNode")
  .....
  .def("yaw", &SceneNode_yaw )
  ....
];

This works as Luabind passes a this pointer which in this case lands in "self" rather than the hidden "this" parameter of a normal class method.

Or another way is to override the function in Lua, and use its optional arg functionality:

old_yaw = SceneNode.yaw
function SceneNode:yaw( angle, transformspace )
  if transformspace == nil then
    transformspace = SceneNode.TS_LOCAL
  end

  old_yaw( angle, transformspace )
end

Have a look at: https://github.com/merlinblack/Game-Engine-Testbed/blob/level1/src/luabinding.cpp

Feel free to grab anything that looks useful to you!

Nigel Atkinson
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