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The Storyboard Lua API (Lua API) gives developers access to the Engine though a Lua scripting interface. This API is a library of functions which allow interaction with the Engine by manipulating data and working with events and user interface components. Through the Storyboard Lua API developers can:
Get and set data values from the model
Inject application events
Manipulate model objects such as controls/layers
The Storyboard Lua plugin is built on top of the standard 5.1 release of Lua available from www.lua.org. While the core Lua interpreter is unchanged from the standard release, two additional modules have been incorporated to facilitate development with Storyboard:
| The bitwise manipulation module (bit32) from Lua 5.2 has been built-in to this Lua plugin. This module provides a native implementation of several standard bit operations, including those required for text conversion to/from UTF-8. The documentation for the bitwise functions available from this module can be found in the Lua 5.2 Reference Manual |
| The Storyboard module (gre) is included that provides function extensions to manipulate and work with the currently active Storyboard model. This module also incorporates the Storyboard IO communication API that can be used to send events to external programs. |
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