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Writing a scripting engine

Started by Samith Aug 7, 2003 at 8:27 PM 3 replies 650+ views

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Aug 7, 2003 at 8:27 PM

The tutorials for doing this on flipCode seem pretty good, but they use a tool called "flex" and "bison" and I''m not sure how good it is to use this. Is it just standard that anyone who is writing a scripting engine uses these, or should I learn to make my own lexical analyzer?

JasonA

Aug 7, 2003 at 8:36 PM

From what I''ve heard, LUA seems to be one of the best. I plan to learn it as well, and there are some great tutorials about it on this site.

Samith

Aug 7, 2003 at 10:04 PM

I don''t really want to make my own language, really I just want to be able to script events in a game or something, maybe even something Unreal Tournament-ish, where I can script certain functions for things in a game (like, in an RTS, maybe I would have each unit have it''s own script for movement/attacking, so I can get unique units without having to hardcode each units attack functions or whatever)

llyod

Aug 7, 2003 at 10:14 PM

Lua would be perfect for what you want.

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