take – Create read from a bool function in lua

Question:

Well I'm learning lua and I have a doubt, I'm trying to create a bool function reading in lua.

I have a function that turns it off or on as I set it to true or false.

This function is called useappenabled but I'm not able to apply it in lua, before I used it in libconf format and it worked normally before it was written as follows.

In lua, the function is as follows:

Enableapp = 
{
    Useapp = true;
};

Now the reading before in libconfig format was as follows, notice that the useappenabled function is applied to the input value, ie true or false if I put it in Useapp

if (config_lookup(&onf, "Enableapp"))
        if (config_setting_lookup_bool(cf, "Useapp", &SelectValue))
            useappenabled = SelectValue;

So I tried to change the code from libconfig to lua, but I'm not able to read the useappenabled function, the code is like this in lua

lua_getglobal(L, "Enableapp");
    lua_pushstring(L, "Useapp");
    lua_tonumber(L, useappenabled);

I think the problem is lua_tonumber, I would need to do something something like this:

useappenabled = value_de_Useapp;

But I'm starting now, does anyone know tell me how I can apply the useappenabled function to equal the value of Useapp .

Answer:

Use lua_getfield to get the value of a field from a table:

lua_getglobal(L, "Enableapp");
lua_getfield(L, -1, "Useapp");
useappenabled = lua_toboolean(L,-1);

Note the conversion with lua_toboolean and not lua_tonumber .