Modified Lua Toolset Features

Table of Contents Creating/Editing scripts Debugging Profiling Interface Other

Creating/Editing scripts

• Syntax highlighting
• Syntax checking
  • Toggle on/off

Debugging

• Set breakpoints (and stop on them)
• Save and load breakpoints within a project
• Run developer entered commands while stopped on breakpoints
• Step through code line-by-line once a breakpoint is hit
• Step over/step out once a breakpoint is hit
• Stop (and resume) Lua execution at any time
• Software breakpoints from Lua or C/C++
• Lua assert function
• Display callstack of Lua code while debugging
• Ability to modify globals/locals/upvalues while debugging (including table and/or subtable values)
• Conditional breakpoints
• Per Lua state debugging and Lua state GUI

Profiling

• 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
• Memory tracer (see allocations and deallocations)

Interface

• Easy project creation
• Most-recent-project list
• 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 which can be changed during debugging
  • Display locals/upvalues/globals (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 languages

Other

• Direct connection to targets
• Support custom plugins or toolbars via
• Support custom network plugins
• Edit and continue feature—reload scripts while connected to a Target and debugging