RE: How much lua?

["Joshua Jensen" <jjensen@...>]

LuaPlus also has a separate remote debugger, not tied to Visual C++.  It is
in a pretty workable state at this time, and on the Lua side, it does
absolutely NO modification to the Lua state.  It shows much of what you
would expect, call stacks, watch variables, local variables, step-through
debugging, and so on.  The server side is mostly platform agnostic, and it
could probably be retrofit to your needs.

Josh 

-----Original Message-----
From: lua-bounces@bazar2.conectiva.com.br
[mailto:lua-bounces@bazar2.conectiva.com.br] On Behalf Of Chris Chapman
Sent: Tuesday, December 09, 2003 4:19 AM
To: 'Lua list'
Subject: RE: How much lua?

This however doesn't help much when Lua is tightly integrated into a game,
and it is the interaction between game logic and game data you need to
debug. On the PS2 we have to use a specific debugger system to communicate,
and its not Visual C. If we could inspect lua variables/step through lua
code from that debugger, it would be workable. At the moment, it seems the
only viable debugging solution would be something which could use a simple
console output to display scripts/variables, and map the PS2 controller
input into useful functions (step over, step in, run to, etc.). That way,
the game engine can handle converting the console system into something
renderable. I could probably do it given that mythical 'spare week' ;-), but
that's unlikely to appear. 

-----Original Message-----
From: Robert Anderberg [mailto:lua@anderberg.co.uk]
Sent: 09 December 2003 11:12
To: Lua list
Subject: Re: How much lua?


Chris Chapman wrote:

>We found that the loss of debugability was a major factor in how much 
>we
use
>Lua. So much so that our AI programmers gave up trying to put high 
>level logic into the script and just found ways to restart/change logic
faster.
>
If you have a step through debugger then you eliminate this problem, it's
quite possible to build a quick and nasty debugger for lua, or use luaPlus
which has VC debugger intergration as well as a stand alone debugger.