Fountain, a World of Warcraft Addon by me

    Some weeks ago I decided to give a go at learning LUA. The result of this is an addon for the mage class in WoW which automatically gives water to people who ask for it.

    Usually a mage spend a bunch of time with handing our water when raiding. With this addon, that is a thing of the past.

    This is the first public beta and it is therefore still in the early stages.

    http://www.curse-gaming.com/en/wow/addo ... ntain.html

    I have learned everything so far by studying other addons. Many prefer tutorials, but just studying other peoples code can learn you a lot.

    If you want WoW specific LUA tutorials then I think you can download some kind of sdk somewhere. Afaik it's not of much use though.

    LUA turned out to be a great language and WoW is easy to mod, although it lacks official documentation.

    Released a few more versions of the mod. So far it has been received well with more than a thousand downloads and good ratings on curse-gaming.

    I am pretty sure that the e.g. the or operator in 1982 basic did not have support for returning non-boolean values. I do not believe it had extensive support for strings and patterns either.

    Here is an example of how I used those things in Fountain:

    Code
    result = string.find(msg, FountainPattern) or string.find(msg, FountainPattern2);

    There are also other also many other differences, but the syntax is similar yes. This however can be said about most of todays common languages.

    nah i programmed 3 years with basic for school and it could handle all stuff for strings and arrays (patterns) and so on...

    the syntax is in basic imho totally different from c++ and delphi. while basic and lua don't split var types in integer and string c++ and delphi do. for example:

    basic:

    x = "Hello World"

    x = 12 * SQRT(13)

    x(1,5) = "Vars is free"

    delphi:

    VAR x := Integer;

    x1 := String;

    x2 := Array of String [...]

    begin

    x := 12 * SQRT(13);

    x1 := "Hello World";

    x2(1,5) := "Vars in an array";

    end;

    end.

    well I mean its a dynamic lang which in most cases do not really have types they are just objects. scripting langs all tend to be that way. LUA is a good one I will say aside from WoW's UI we use it all over the place in tools

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