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Hey all!

I've been trying to modify the new shape select script posted by 7feet yesterday to display the shape order in a persistent popup window (think the bone contraints dialog). This is going well so far with one exception - the shape names are stored as a 'LM_String' userdata typed variable.

Is LM_String a C-style string - a pointer to a null terminated string? And does LM, or anyone else have a code snippet for turning these into useful Lua strings?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Cheers!

Chris

An LM_String is a C++ wrapper around a C string. Unfortunately, this class has not been exposed to Lua. Although a script can "see" that a shape has a name property, it is unable to actually read or modify it, since Lua scripts don't understand how to work with the LM_String class.

Sorry. As Moho advances, we'll get more and more of this stuff exposed through the scripting interface.

Oh bums! Oh well, at least now I'm familiar with the inner workings of Moho's Lua stuff, which will come in handy further down the line. I did start getting suspicious when the only reference to shape.fName I could find was the one I'd just put in the script... should have known

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