Planet

Object-orientated scripting for Lua made easier.

Description

Lua doesn't have built in OOP, which makes developers have to make their own manually. Planet is aimed to make using OOP within Lua a lot easier, and faster.

Usage

Firstly, require the module. In Roblox, you can use the ID 3044032874:

planet = require(3044032874)

You can use the plugin to automatically add this to the start of your scripts, To create a class you use the Class, this is put into the current environment by default.

Class( ClassTable )
-- Returns the class. To create a new class you run the `new` function,
-- this is part of the table that is returned.

local vehicle = Class({
    topSpeed = 60;
    name = "";
    manufacturer = "";
    value = 100;
    constructor = function(self, name, manufacturer, topSpeed)
        self.name = name
        self.topSpeed = topSpeed
        self.manufacturer = manufacturer
    end
})

If you can't access Class its most likely not been put into your environment, if thats the case you can just do

planet.Class( ... )

instead.

Inheritance can be done by adding the class you are inheriting from.

Class({}, InheritedClass)

An example would be;

local car = Class({
    value = 200;
    horn = function(self)
        print("beep")
    end;
}, vehicle)

Now when you call car.new("DeLorean","DMC",85) that will now have all of the functions and variables from the vehicle class, unless you override them.

Look here for more examples