Re: Debugging

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

----- Original Message -----
From: Gabriel Duarte
Date: 8/12/2011 7:44 AM
> Take a look at this:
> http://lua-users.org/wiki/DebuggingLuaCode
This list is missing the excellent Tilde debugger/IDE 
(http://luaforge.net/projects/tilde/).  I have a forked version of it 
(https://github.com/jjensen/lua-tilde) with a bunch of incoming changes 
that haven't been pushed yet and more I still need to work on.  LuaPlus 
uses it as its default debugger 
(https://github.com/jjensen/luaplus51-all/tree/master/Src/tilde and 
https://github.com/jjensen/luaplus51-all/blob/master/Tools/Lua/Lua/Lua.cpp 
and https://github.com/jjensen/luaplus51-all/tree/master/Src/LuaPlus, 
through #define LUA_TILDE_DEBUGGER 1).

Given that it is C#, I want to spend some time making it work in Mono.

I tried to get in touch with the authors of Tilde at the email address 
in their presentation to see if they have an update, but I never 
received a response.

My current list of things to fix/update are:

* Allow .vcproj folder hierarchy lookups for files being debugged from 
the game instead of matching against the RelativePath field.  (Done)
* Auto-connect to the last used connection.
* When lines are inserted/deleted above breakpoints, the breakpoint 
images shift, but Tilde does not update the breakpoint locations to send 
across the network.
* Add conditional breakpoints.
* Add coroutine-local breakpoints.
* Add a registry viewer.
* Add a Run to Cursor command.
* Add a global environment viewer.   (Can currently be achieved by 
entering _G in the Watch Window.)
* Tooltip hover of variable's value in the code editor.
* Custom visualizers.
* Direct support for multiple Lua states within the same Tilde instance.

Josh