Interactive console

[genericdave]

It was easy enough to make a simple output-only console for love 0.6, but who's satisfied with simple output? Those of us who aren't on windows need a solution like this to get quick debug information and what I've made works well enough for that. However, is it not reasonable to want an awesome interactive console? I've seen a few mentions of various consoles people have made for love, but I have yet to see any posted for general use.

I made a mock-up, but I doubt if it's much good at all. Instructions are in the main.lua file. Anybody have anything better? Post it!

[Gaylard]

Needs Unicode support.

[genericdave]

Needs Unicode support.

DAMN YOUR FEIGNED IGNORANCE!

[Magitek]

Pretty good for a mockup really, slapped it right into my project and its very useful.
Could use a bit of touching up with editing functions (copy/paste/delete etc etc) and such but overall I think it's a keeper thanks

[genericdave]

Could use a bit of touching up with editing functions (copy/paste/delete etc etc) and such

Yeah, we're in agreeance here. Unfortunately, love seems to be a bit lacking in the input department (just take a look at where I shift keys into upper case). copy/paste from the clipboard might not be possible at this point, and I don't even wanna think about selections and mouse handling and whatnot. I can imagine making it into a simple keyboard-only console though. Maybe throw in a few commands so you don't have to write everything as functions within functions. Command history wouldn't be too bad either, and maybe I could even tackle autocompletion at some point (ooh boy, gettin' ahead of myself a bit there).

However, I'd much rather have some uber-programming-god issue forth and declare my code as crap, showing me the way with the holy gift of his amazing console that he wrote in 5 minutes using one hand (left-hand dvorak of course). Any chance of that I wonder?

[Robin]

(just take a look at where I shift keys into upper case)

Let me introduce to you: unicode.
You can do

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function love.keypressed(key, unicode)
(...)

unicode is the key you pressed, but it takes Shift into account, for example.

Just a note: I didn't look in your source. Maybe you use it already. In that case: please ignore above post.

[bartbes]

Command history wouldn't be too bad either [...] However, I'd much rather have some uber-programming-god issue forth and declare my code as crap, showing me the way with the holy gift of his amazing console that he wrote in 5 minutes using one hand (left-hand dvorak of course).

Well, I do have command history in my console..

[Robin]

Well, I do have command history in my console..

Too bad you only do right-hand dvorak.

[genericdave]

Well, I do have command history in my console..

Too bad you only do right-hand dvorak.

Well right-hand dvorak is acceptable, I suppose. However, I assume, bartbes, that you console is the one integrated into you little big planet inspired game. Could that be easily reworked and made so that it can be plugged into any project? I think that's the main thing here.

Let me introduce to you: unicode.
You can do

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function love.keypressed(key, unicode)
(...)

unicode is the key you pressed, but it takes Shift into account, for example.

Just a note: I didn't look in your source. Maybe you use it already. In that case: please ignore above post.

I had no idea. I remember reading somewhere that unicode support was non-existant. Hey look, there it is, right in the docs where it should be. Nice.

[Robin]

I remember reading somewhere that unicode support was non-existant.

Lua itself doesn't do unicode itself, and I believe LÖVE didn't have much unicode support at first either.