Features and Benefits

SLED—Script Language Editor and Debugger—offers these features:

• Creating, editing, and debugging Lua scripts
• Syntax highlighting and checking
• Standard debug functionality:
  • Breakpoints (conditional, too)
  • Execution flow:
    • Start, step into, step over, step out, stop
  • View, modify, and watch variables:
    • Globals, locals, upvalues, environment table variables
  • Callstack
  • Issue Lua commands (while stopped on a breakpoint)
  • Edit script files and reload them on the target while debugging (edit and continue)
  • Basic profiling information (function calls, time, min/avg/max)
  • Function call graph
  • Watch Lua allocations
  • Have Lua print() redirected to SLED
  • Per Lua state debugging if using more than one state
• Plugin based
• Robust find and replace
• Runtime libraries libsleddebugger and libsledluaplugin make no dynamic memory allocations