So, I’m working on some of the rendering classes for my latest project and I’ve encountered an interesting issue that I can’t explain and I’d greatly appreciate it if someone could explain to me what it is I’m doing wrong because I just can’t see it.
Continue readingFor our new game, the current plan is to use Lua to provide content and control, with Delphi doing most of the heavy lifting (rendering, game state saving etc.). To achieve this, it’s necessary to establish an interface to Lua (for this, I’m using the excellent interface by Dennis Spreen – VerySimple.Lua – this is specifically for Lua 5.3) and then to get the data out of it. This article is going to focus on the later as VerySimple.Lua is very simple to use (excellent job Dennis 🙂 ).
Continue readingThere are some tutorials about using named pipes in Delphi but after much searching during my own use of them, I wasn’t able to find any information to solve my problem, so here is what I learned.
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