I've been following the examples shown in the sample game to get my code working and so far it has all been going good. However I'm trying to work out how to pass script objects back to scripts from c++. I've read a number of forum posts, but haven't been able to solve my problem.

I registered an interface, which I then inherit from in script like this.

class testComponent : IComponent
{
   testComponent(Component @component)
   {
      @self = component;
      value = 0.0f;
   }

   Component @self;
   float value;
};

I then create instances of this component in c++ and store a pointer to the asIScriptObject from the testComponent script.

Then I have another script file where I want to use the instances of these components, which I'm doing like this.

#include "testComponent.as"

class testSystem : ISystem
{
   testSystem( System @system )
   {
      @self = system;
   }

   void update(Entity @entity)
   {
      asIScriptObject @component = entity.component("testComponent");

      testComponent @tc = component;

      // This is what I want to be able to do...
      tc.value = 1.0f;
   }

   System @self;
};

I've registered the "component" method, which returns the component's asIScriptObject, like this.

engine->RegisterObjectMethod("Entity", "asIScriptObject @component(const string &in)", asMETHOD(Entity, component), asCALL_THISCALL);

All of it works great except for the "testComponent @tc = component;" line in the testSystem script, which gives the following error.

Can't implicitly convert from 'asIScriptObject@&' to 'testComponent@&'.

I've also tried using cast as well, but still the same error. How do I cast the asIScriptObject back to the original script object that created it so I can use that object in script?

OK, that makes sense, however I cannot seem to cast an asIScriptObject to an IComponent object in c++, therefore the "components" function always returns NULL. Here is what my "components" function looks like.

IComponent *Entity::component(const string &type)
{
   asIScriptObject *script = components.getScript(type);
   IComponent *c = dynamic_cast<IComponent*>(script);
   return c;
}

I've stepped through the code to ensure "script" is valid, and that it is of "testComponent" objType, which is an IComponent. How do I return an IComponent object from an asIScriptObject object, or am I supposed to get the IComponent object from somewhere else?

Ignore my previous post. According to the documentation, I think my "component" function is actually supposed to return an asIScriptObject pointer and increase its refCount like this.

asIScriptObject *Entity::component(const string& type)
{
   asIScriptObject *script = components.getScript(type);
   script->AddRef();
   return script;
}

I have this registered like this.

engine->RegisterObjectMethod("Entity", "IComponent @component(const string &in)", asMETHOD(Entity, component), asCALL_THISCALL);

I then do this in my script.

#include "testComponent.as"

class testSystem : ISystem
{
   testSystem(System @system)
   {
      @self = system;
   }

   void update(Entity @entity)
   {
      testComponent @tc = cast<testComponent>(entity.component("testComponent"));

      // Why is tc null??
      tc.value = 1.0f;
   }

   System @self;
};

However, I get a runtime script exception that says, "Null pointer access" when I try to us tc. I have checked to ensure that the "component" method is returning a valid asIScriptObject pointer that is an IComponent of type "testComponent".

Why would tc be Null?