love2d-and-zerobrane.md

Love2D and ZeroBrane

Getting output when you run from ZeroBrane

Put this at the head of your main.lua, or before a particularly important print.

io.stdout:setvbuf("no")

Note

If you're using windows, love 0.9.2, and ZeroBrane Studio < 0.95 you might have issues doing the above.

• Ensure t.console = true isn't in your conf.lua.
• Don't use love._openConsole() in your code.

Getting the debugger to work.

You do not need this to get a console to open. Make sure the beginning of your love.load() looks like this:

love.load(arg)
	if arg[#arg] == "-debug" then
		-- if your game is invoked with "-debug" (zerobrane does this by default)
		-- invoke the debugger
		require("mobdebug").start()
	end
	-- ... your code here ...
end

If you ever need to delay your debugger or only invoke it at a given point, you can use:

local mobdebug = require("mobdebug")
mobdebug.start()
-- your code here
mobdebug.stop()

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Live Updating

Use Ctrl+F6 to run your game in a way that allows you to modify variables on the fly. Might not work for complex games.