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Lua Quick Start Guide

You're reading from Lua Quick Start Guide The easiest way to learn Lua programming

Product type Paperback

Published in Jul 2018

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781789343229

Length 202 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Lua

Concepts

Programming Language

Author (1):

Gabor Szauer

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Table of Contents (15) Chapters

Title Page

Copyright and Credits

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Contributors

Preface

1. Introduction to Lua FREE CHAPTER

2. Working with Lua

3. Tables and Objects

4. Lua Libraries

5. Debugging Lua

6. Embedding Lua

7. Lua Bridge

8. Next Steps

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Index

Integrated development environments

So far, we have covered how to use the built-in features of Lua to debug code. To make debugging easier, several integrated development environments, or IDEs, for Lua exist. An IDE is an external application that can be used to run your Lua code. Typically, IDEs provide syntax highlighting, and sometimes code auto-completion, visual breakpoints, call stacks, and watch windows. This section will cover how to use three of the most popular Lua IDEs.

LuaEdit

LuaEdit is a simple Lua editor that offers a visual studio-like interface with similar functionality and hotkeys. This IDE features breakpoints, a call stack view, and a watch view. LuaEdit provides all the functionality one would look for in a fully featured IDE. The only downside is that LuaEdit is Windows-only. You can download LuaEdit here: http://luaedit.sourceforge.net

Breakpoints

The most powerful feature of LuaEdit is being able to set breakpoints. To set a breakpoint, click in the gutter next to the...

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Authors (1)

Gabor Szauer

Gabor Szauer

Gabor Szauer has been making games since 2010. He graduated from Full Sail University in 2010 with a bachelor's degree in game development. Gabor maintains an active Twitter presence, and maintains a programming-oriented game development blog. Gabor's previously published books are Game Physics Programming Cookbook and Lua Quick Start Guide, both published by Packt.

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