I've made a mistake of included a huge gif in this repo thus making this very slow to download. Thankfully @flamendless cloned and fixed this issue, and have updated this to work with löve 11.0 and 11.1. You can find his repo here.
LoveDebug - A whole new way of debugging your game, original created by kalle2990
Tired of having to restart your whole game when an error occurs or attaching a console, which you have to switch to, just to see your debug printings? Tired of adding extra variables in text to your graphical experience, taking space and looks misplaced? Tired of not having the possibility to execute scripts in-game without attaching a GUI or even writing one yourself? Now all of this is unnecessary!
LoveDebug is a community-driven open-development project, the creator has stopped posting in a while so everyone's free to do whatever they want with this code, specially adding new functionalities.
Installing LoveDebug:
- Put 'lovedebug.lua' wherever you want in your project. (Ex: root of the working directory)
- Add
require('lovedebug')to the beginning of you code inmain.luaEx:
require("lovedebug")
function love.load()
end- Launch your game and press Ctrl/Shift + F8
- And there you have it, your own onscreen interactive console.
Key features:
- Press CTRL/Shift + F8 to Show/Hide the console.
- Type
_DebugSettings.Settings()to see a list of available variables that you can change. - Hotswap your code. Press F5 while you are at the console to reload your code or simply set _DebugSettings.LiveAuto to true to automatically reload your code when it has been changed, control the files that should be monitored by editing _DebugSettings.LiveFile
- HUD feed of everything that is going on under the hood of you application in real time.
- Code auto completion. Use the arrow keys while you are coding in the console to browse a list of possible auto completions and press tab to auto complete the word.
- Use Shift+Arrow keys to browse input history.
- Copy and Paste by pressing Ctrl+C/V
Full Functionality list:
- A scrollable list of the output.
- Some errors are redirected to the console instead of crashing löve.
- Only prints the same error once, useful for errors in love.update, can be toggled.
- Semi-transparent console overlay, the console's color can be changed in _DebugSettings.OverlayColor
- Ctrl/Shift + F8 toggle of the console
- Text input for executing lua snippets right in your console
- Graphic feedback telling about unseen lines ("..." on the bottom right)
- Variable proposal and auto completion (select a proposal by using the arrow keys and press tab to auto complete).
- Fast jumping to the bottom of the console by pressing lCtrl+Middle mouse button or by providing a code to the console.
- Use the home and end keys to jump to the end or to beginning of the line.
- Browse code history by using the arrow keys while pressing the Shift key.
- LiveCoding, you can reload your code by pressing F5 while at the console or by setting _DebugSettings.LiveAuto to true and you can reload more than one file, see _DebugSettings.Settings().
- Type 'clear' and press enter to clear the console.
- Type Ctrl+C/V to copy or paste text into the console input.
- HUD with the latest prints and errors that your application emitted.
- Add your own ;)