Every time I read about the platform.gc function, it's always something bad. What's the actual use of it? Why not just use gc?

Oh and I'm pretty excited and curious about what's going to happen to Lua soon. You guys (adriweb and jimbauwens) are dropping hints everywhere. The SDK is being released in 2012, but what exactly will that do to Lua?

If we update to the next release of Lua, will we have to update the OS? I'm still running 3.0.1. 

Will Ndless still be compatible if we have to update the OS? Even though I love programming Lua, I'm not willing to give up the chance for a GBC emulator, inter alia. 

I cant wait for the next os, but i might not upgrade my CX CAS if if ndless comes out
after i fix this i will get rid of all of the other platform.gc's its a good thing there isnt many of them

an image is below
right now im trying to get the widndows and dialog boxes moveable again
also dialog boxes are now children of a main window or a form
also every control must have a parent
the code to create the objects was this:
cmtable = {text= {"File", "Save", "Add"},
actions = {File, Save, Add}}
frm1 = form(1, 1, 300, 200, false, "Title", color.white,color.Bdark, true, true, cmtable, true)
button1 = button("button", 2, 12, ck, color.black, color.Bcontrol, false, frm1, false)
dialog1 = dialog( 50, 50, "text", "title", color.black, color.white, true, frm1, true)
right now you dont have to have a main window

EDIT: is there a better way to upload images?

looks very good, but maybe you shoould change the serif font from the button to sansserif

and i see u have a "file" "save" and "add" menu in the first window, are they useable? i mean, is there a pop up menu or so?

great, this will become a really nice lib, i think..

maybe you can add one thing, you have the coords of the windows, right, well when you now add something like this:
platform.window:invalidate(unpack(self.dim))with dim = {x,y,width,height}
it will only redraw the content of the screen, and not the rest of the screen, might be useful

that moving isn't a problem..
you keep track of the x and y position of the window, then you just replace those x an y from the list by the new values after the replacement --> problem solved

the context menues are almost there it wont be long now
tables are set up like this right now
cmtable = {item = {text, list, x, y, width, height, xoff, yoff},}
the x to yoff are initialized by zeros i may remove them from the users site
todo: add actions for the menu sub-items__make the menu apear under the item that was clicked__ change the color scheme
i also added platform.window:invalidate(x, y, width, height) instead of platform.window:invalidate(), for some reason i thought it would mess with other stuff
also i have an idea with forms but im not quite sure how to implement it:
if a form is focused i would need it to draw overtop of the other windows
would table.sort work for this??