Toadman Code Assist

This is a fork of Fatshark's code assist for use with Toadman's tools.

Integrated the source from the vscode-lua extension https://github.com/trixnz/vscode-lua as a starting point to integrate the linter more deeply with the Toadman engine. Thank you trixnz 🙏

Install

Available on the Visual Studio Code Marketplace: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=Toadman.toadman-code-assist

Alternatively, if you're developing it you can also clone the repo into %UserProfile%/.vscode/extensions.

Make sure to define the toolchain path:

To launch the game with the debugger attached, you need to setup your launch.json. Here's how:

In order for the linter to work, make sure that luacheck (https://github.com/mpeterv/luacheck) is available in the PATH. Or specify the path in the settings.

Features

• Enhanced debugger:
  • Attaches in <100ms instead of taking ~10 seconds (x100 fold improvement).
  • Execute Lua in the current lexical scope via the Debug Console.
  • Basic auto-complete in the debug console.
  • Expandable tree-view for table values.
• Lua language features support:
  • Go to Definition (F12)
  • Go to Symbol in Workspace (Ctrl+T)
  • Go to Symbol in Editor (Ctrl+Shift+O)
  • Dim code inside feature flags.
  • Color picker for color tables (eg, {255,70,130,180}).
  • Preview texture assets by hovering them.
  • (Basic) auto-completion on self methods.
• Other features:
  • Recompile & refresh sources from within VSCode.
  • View console output (both compiler/games) within VSCode.
  • Clickable error links in the console output.

License

See the LICENSE file.