Re: [ANN] Decoda Lua IDE and debugger

["Peter Cawley" <lua@...>]

Tried it with DoW:Dark Crusade 1.2, and after instructing Decoda to
attach to the process and waiting for a bit, DC has a critical error
and exits. Slightly better luck with CoH 1.71; was able to attach to
the process, type a command into the CoH console and had decoda pick
it up.
I know the AI mod for DoW/DC has been asking for a script debugger for
a long time, so if it could work nicely with DC, then they will be
definate customers.

(Perhaps this particular discussion should move to the Decoda forums)

On 09/10/2007, Max McGuire <max@unknownworlds.com> wrote:
> Yes it can.  You don't need to dynamically link with Lua for Decoda to work
> though. If there's a way for Decoda to locate the Lua functions (either
> through PDBs or DLL exports) you can use it to debug your application.
>
> Decoda actually won't work with Dawn of War though, at least not the
> original demo Relic shipped.  That was one of my test applications while
> developing Decoda, and unfortunately they made modifications to the lua_open
> function where it expects to receive and additional parameter.  At least
> that's what I ascertained through my testing.
>
> I imagine newer DoW releases (like the expansion packs) may use Lua 5.x and
> have eliminated that function entirely, but I haven't tested them.  You can
> debug Company of Heroes though!
>
> Max
>
>
>  On 10/9/07, Peter Cawley <lua@corsix.org> wrote:
> > Hey,
> >
> > How does the debugger work from a game standpoint? For example, the
> > Dawn of War series of games use LUA for AI scripting, if the game is
> > running in windowed mode, then can Decoda be debugging the same
> > lua_State that the game is using for AI, given that the game loads lua
> > from a DLL?
> >
> > Peter
> >
> > On 09/10/2007, Max McGuire <max@unknownworlds.com> wrote:
> > > Hello everyone,
> > >
> > > We've just released Decoda, commercial Lua IDE and debugger for Windows.
> > > We're using Lua heavily in our current game, and we wanted a good tool
> to
> > > help us quickly write bug-free Lua code.  We couldn't find anything that
> fit
> > > the bill, so we ended up creating the tool ourselves.  Along the way we
> > > talked to a lot of the people who were looking for the same thing, so we
> > > decided to polish it up and turn it into a product.
> > >
> > > Decoda has all the features you'd expect in a modern IDE (block
> comments,
> > > find in files, syntax highlighting, watch windows, step-in, step over,
> > > etc.), integrates with most source control systems and requires no code
> > > changes to debug Lua in your application. It works with Lua 4.0 and
> later as
> > > well as modified versions of Lua.
> > >
> > > You can see the debugger in in action here:
> > > http://www.unknownworlds.com/decoda/videos
> > >
> > > Or visit our webpage to download the full-featured 30-day trial:
> > > http://www.unknownworlds.com/decoda
> > >
> > > We look forward to hearing your feedback and suggestions!
> > >
> > > Max McGuire
> > >
> > > --
> > > Technical Director
> > > Unknown Worlds Entertainment
> > > http://www.unknownworlds.com
> >
>
>
>
> --
>
> Technical Director
> Unknown Worlds Entertainment
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