love-repl (simple lua console)

[ioddly]

Hey guys.

Since I couldn't get any of the existing console projects I found to work, I whipped up my own this evening.

Features and misfeatures:

- Boost software license (you don't have to worry about the license or even include it in your documentation)
- Does not override built-in love functions (but does require you to add hooks to draw, keypressed and mousepressed)
- Mouse scrolling
- Basic line editing
- History
- Looks pretty cool because it takes a screenshot of your game, darkens it and then renders the console over it, like so

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Documentation and code is on GitHub. If you don't care about git, you can just download the main file, save it as repl.lua and require it in your project.

[ioddly]

A couple folks followed this on GitHub recently, so I felt obligated to tune it up a little. It's now got line editing and a scroll bar. Luxurious! The only major omission right now is word wrapping. Other than that, it's pretty much done.

[jjmafiae]

looks cool.

[veethree]

Wouldn't it be simpler to just draw a semi opaque rectangle over the screen instead of the screenshot? Haven't looked at the code or tested it, but that seems like a simpler solution.

[Ranguna259]

http://love2d.org/forums/viewtopic.php? ... it=debuger go to the last page for the latest version.