DCS Lua Injector

This VSCode extension lets you run lua code and code snippets inside Digital Combat Simulators mission environment.

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Installation

For this extension to work you will need to copy the DCS-Lua-Injector.lua script into your C:\Users\<username>\Saved Games\DCS.openbeta\Scripts\Hooks folder. Create the folder if it does not exist.

Usage

Hotkey

Pressing Alt+D will send the currently selected text to DCS to be run in the mission environment. If no text is selected it will send the entire content of the currently open file.

The keybinding can be changed in the File->Preferences->Keyboard Shortcuts menu.

(search for @command:dcs-lua-injector.runSelection, or Run selected lua code in DCS)

DCS Snippets view

This can be found under the Explorer section of VS Code.

It shows you a collection of lua snippets found in the current workspace, and lets you run them with a single click.

To define a snippet create a .lua file anywhere in the current workspace and write your code in the following format in it:

--#inject:snippetname
 lua code here
--#end

The snippet name must consist of alpha-numeric characters.

You can have multiple snippets in a single file. Each snippet is considered to be from an --#inject:name line to the next --#end line.

Settings

Connection IP and port can be configured on the VS Code settings page, in case this needs to be run over the network.

There is also some basic security available by changing the default password.

On DCS side the port and password can be configured by editing the DCS-Lua-Injector.lua file and changing the following values:

luaInjector.port = 18080
luaInjector.password = 'default'