Re: [wxlua-users] debugging lua scripts

[Milind G. <mil...@gm...>]

Thanks Paul,
      Yes I see that I need to have it in a separate file and then it works.

Regards,
Milind


On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 5:41 PM, Paul K <pau...@ya...> wrote:

> Hi Milind,
>
> I quickly tried that in wxLua, but couldn't figure out how to specify
> the folder to run scripts in so that loadfile and io.open would work.
>
> I also tried to do this in ZeroBrane Studio
> (https://github.com/pkulchenko/ZeroBraneStudio) and it seems like it
> may work for you (the IDE is wxlua based). I'm not sure what your code
> looks like, but let's say you have loadedfile.lua script that you are
> trying to load and it has the following lines:
>
> -- loadedfile.lua
> print "123"
> print "456"
> function foo()
>   print "foo"
> end
>
> You also have loadfile.lua script which has something like this:
>
> -- loadfile.lua
> --local func = loadfile('loadedfile.lua')
> local f = assert(io.open('loadedfile.lua'))
> local str = f:read('*all')
> f:close()
> local func = loadstring(str, 'loadedfile.lua')
> func()
> foo()
> print 'Done'
>
> If you open both of these files in ZeroBrane Studio and start
> debugging with loadfile.lua being in the active editor window, you
> should be able to step through both of them. You can also set a
> breakpoint on either of the files and it should work.
>
> Note that I added "loadedfile.lua" as a parameter for loadstring(),
> which informs the debug interface as to where to search for the source
> code.
>
> Paul.
>
> On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 3:37 PM, Milind Gupta <mil...@gm...>
> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >       I have a lua program in which I load a lua script as a string
> > (loadstring) and then execute it. Is it possible to debug this script in
> > wxLua.exe? How would I add a breakpoint in there?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Milind
> >
> >
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