Functional reactive programming and LuaGravity

Magnusviri

@ techdojo mentioned component game design in this thread

http://www.giderosmobile.com/forum/discussion/comment/3846#Comment_3846

And it has pretty well sucked me in and I've eventually landed on LauGravity.

http://www.lua.inf.puc-rio.br/~francisco/luagravity/

Has anyone used it?

Magnusviri

Ok, so LuaGravity seems to be more of a concept than something that is actually used.

Anyway, I liked some of the ideas and they can sort of be implemented with coroutines anyway, so I rewrote the HelloBall example using coroutines. It's about 5 lines shorter and much more interesting to read in my opinion. The if's are gone and replaced with whiles. I could have left in the local x and y variables but decided it was safer to do it this way (if there were other ways of setting the ball position).

The original HelloBall is here:

http://www.giderosmobile.com/documentation/getting_started.html

local background = Bitmap.new(Texture.new("field.png")) stage:addChild(background)   local fruit = Bitmap.new(Texture.new("ball.png"))   fruit.xspeed = 1.5 fruit.yspeed = 2.3   stage:addChild(fruit)   function moveBallX() while true do while fruit:getX() < 320 -fruit:getWidth() do fruit:setX( fruit:getX() + fruit.xspeed ) coroutine.yield() end while fruit:getX() > 0 do fruit:setX( fruit:getX() - fruit.xspeed ) coroutine.yield() end end end   function moveBallY() while true do while fruit:getY() < 480 -fruit:getHeight() do fruit:setY( fruit:getY() + fruit.yspeed ) coroutine.yield() end while fruit:getY() > 0 do fruit:setY( fruit:getY() - fruit.yspeed ) coroutine.yield() end end end   co_moveBallX = coroutine.create(moveBallX) co_moveBallY = coroutine.create(moveBallY)   function onEnterFrame(event) coroutine.resume(co_moveBallX) coroutine.resume(co_moveBallY) end   stage:addEventListener(Event.ENTER_FRAME, onEnterFrame)

ndoss

Ooh, neat! I read about lua gravity after reading your first post which then led me to coroutines which then led me nowhere .... I couldn't exactly see how to use them in Gideros.

This example helps greatly! Thanks!

Magnusviri

Oh I'm wrong, it's 6 lines longer. And I think how I'm controlling one variable is kind of inefficient. But I can see this working to control an AI or game timeline really well.