gloo - An OOP helper library for creating binary modules in Garry's Mod

[maarvin]

gloo

A OOP helper library intended to aid the creation of modern C++17 binary modules in Garry's Mod. The goal behind creating this was to give myself and other binary module devs the ability to focus on making the module not handling metamethods, object creation, async event handling, and lua value casting.

Here is a simple example of what you can do:
#include <GarrysMod/Lua/Interface.h>
#include <GarrysMod/Lua/LuaValue.h>
#include <GarrysMod/Lua/LuaObject.h>
#include <GarrysMod/Lua/LuaEvent.h>

#include <chrono>
#include <thread>

using namespace GarrysMod::Lua;

class TestObject
: public LuaEventEmitter<239, TestObject>
{
private:
bool _run;
std::string _member;
std::thread _thread;
public:
std::string name() override { return "TestObject"; }
public:
TestObject() : LuaEventEmitter()
{
_run = true;
_thread = std::thread(&TestObject::thread_work, this);

AddGetter("member", get_member);
AddSetter("member", set_member);
}
~TestObject()
{
_run = false;
_thread.join();
}
public:
void thread_work()
{
while (_run)
{
using namespace std::chrono_literals;
std::this_thread::sleep_for(1s);

Emit("event", "anything", "you", "want", "here", 69.99);
}
}

static int get_member(lua_State *state)
{
auto obj = Pop(state, 1);

return LuaValue::Push(state, obj->_member);
}
static int set_member(lua_State *state)
{
auto obj = Pop(state, 1);
auto value = LuaValue::Pop(state, 2);

if (value.type() == Type::STRING)
{
obj->_member = value;
}

return 0;
}
}; // TestObject

int make_test_obj(lua_State *state)
{
return TestObject::Make()->Push(state);
}

GMOD_MODULE_OPEN() {
LUA->PushSpecial(SPECIAL_GLOB);
LUA->CreateTable();
LUA->PushCFunction(make_test_obj);
LUA->SetField(-2, "make_test");
LUA->SetField(-2, "gloo");
LUA->Pop();

return 0;
}

GMOD_MODULE_CLOSE() {

return 0;
}

Check it out! https://github.com/mcountryman/gloo