Features and Benefits

SLED offers a powerful suite of features.

Table of Contents Creating/Editing Scripts Debugging Profiling User Interface Other

Creating/Editing Scripts

• Creating and editing Lua scripts
• Syntax highlighting
• Syntax checking
  • Can toggle on/off

Debugging

• Set breakpoints (and stop on them)
• Conditional breakpoints
• Save and load breakpoints within a project
• Run developer entered Lua commands while stopped on breakpoints
• Step through code line-by-line once a breakpoint is hit
• Step over/step into/step out once a breakpoint is hit
• Start, stop, and resume script execution at any time
• Software breakpoints from Lua or C/C++
• Lua assert function
• Display callstack of Lua code while debugging
• Ability to view, modify, and watch global/local/upvalue/environment table variables while debugging (including table and/or subtable values)
• Per Lua state debugging and Lua state GUI if using more than one state

Profiling

• View basic profiling information
  • Total time spent in function, average time spent in function, shortest time spent in function, longest time spent in function
• Tree view showing function calls (function call graph)
• Memory tracer (see allocations and deallocations)

User Interface

• Easy project creation
• Most-recent-project list
• Robust find and replace
• File drag-and-drop support
• Detect file and project changes that were made outside of SLED
• Breakpoint window
• Variable watch window
• Easily monitor values and identify those that can be changed during debugging
  • Display locals/upvalues/globals/environment table variables (including tables and/or subtables) when stopped at breakpoints
• Filter Lua global, local, and upvalue variables locally or on the target by lua_t<type> or name
• TTY window displays contents of Lua's print() function
• TTY Filters color TTY text or ignore it completely as it comes into SLED, based on keywords and wildcards
• Support for other scripting languages

Other

• Direct connection to targets
• Support custom plugins or toolbars
• Support custom network plugins
• Edit and continue feature—reload scripts while connected to a target and debugging
• Runtime libraries libsleddebugger and libsledluaplugin make no dynamic memory allocations