Love Console

[tentus]

Is there a way to attach a console to love, after conf has been called? Like a love._console = true or something? I would like to make the debugging console in my game an option that gets determined by the game's config, rather than something hardwired for everyone.

[thelinx]

debug.debug()

[tentus]

Thats... not it (sorry, I can't think of a polite way to say that). I want to control the condition that debug is dependent on (whether or not a console is already bound).

It's not that I want to enter anything in the console, I want to be able to see everything that led up to a crash. That means I need a console, but I don't want to have everyone else testing the game getting inundated with excess information they shouldn't need to even think about.

[thelinx]

You can't open a console after love.conf has been called.

You can however launch LÖVE from the command prompt, but that's as far as you get.

[tentus]

That's quite unfortunate. I guess I'll just have to keep a spare copy of conf around for when I share my game.

[bartbes]

There is a function there, but it's undocumented for a reason. What you could do though, is simply use the command line argument to love. IIRC it's -console. (so love -console game.love)

[Robin]

There is a function there, but it's undocumented for a reason. What you could do though, is simply use the command line argument to love. IIRC it's -console. (so love -console game.love)

Two hyphens, right?

[BlackBulletIV]

Yeah, two hyphens. I tested it. Although on Mac nothing happens (I did see some console thing in the source for Windows only, so that's probably it).

[Robin]

Although on Mac nothing happens (I did see some console thing in the source for Windows only, so that's probably it).

Mac is unix, and on unix you just run LÖVE in a terminal window.

[BlackBulletIV]

Yeah, that's just what I did. So Windows users can't run it from the command line?