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Lua Quick Start Guide

You're reading from   Lua Quick Start Guide The easiest way to learn Lua programming

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789343229
Length 202 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Gabor Szauer Gabor Szauer
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Scriptable software

Lua is particularly well suited to be used as an embedded scripting language. Many existing software packages leverage Lua to provide users with the ability to the base of the software. All of the software listed below can be extended using Lua.

CEGUI

Crazy Eddie's GUI (CEGUI) is a user interface system written in C++, often used for video games. CEGUI offers a Lua backend scripting module, which allows user interfaces to be built using Lua. The CEGUI library is easy to embed, and the Lua API it exposes allows for Lua to issue callbacks to the application that is embedding it.

The website is http://cegui.org.uk.

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