Quozul / lovcon

Amazing console for Löve 2D

Lovcon

Lovcon is a fully-featured in-game console which you can use and edit it as your desires. You can find the full documentation on the 📖 wiki.
The console comes with some images and cursor, as for the cursors, you can disable them in the 📖 config file.
You can find an exemple on the 💾 releases page.

⚠️ Please note that the console can be very resource heavy when opened, weak systems may lag with it!

Features

• Command execution (you can customize the commands)
• Configurable log history limits
• Traceback and time so you can know where and when the print was executed
• This console supports multi-line printing
• Print messages from threads see bellow
• Smooth scrolling
• Coloured tags to identify the commands easily
• Move the console around, resize it and magnetize it on the edges of the window
• Command completions and suggestions
• Powerful text input

Basic usage

local console = require "console" -- Require the console

--[[ Note that if you want to print messages using a command
     such as the "print" command included in the exemple, 
     you'll have to require the console in a global variable. ]]

function love.load()
    console.registercallbacks() -- Register all required callbacks for the console

    --[[ If you wish to use a gamestate library such as hump.gamestate
         you should execute this function after the one from the library
         otherwise the console will not display in a correct way.
         In an other hand, you can call each console's callbacks manually. ]]

    console.print("Super cool message!") -- Prints a message
end

Print from a thread

local console = require "console"

-- Initialize the thread code
local code = [[
-- Require the thread version of the console,
-- this version only contain the console.print() function.
local console = require "console.thread"

local str = ... -- Get the argument

console.print(str) -- Prints a message to the console
]]

thread = love.thread.newThread(code)

function love.load()
    console.registercallbacks()

    thread:start("An other cool message!")
    --[[ Starts the thread with an argument which will be used to print a message.
         The console automatically create a channel that will be used for that,
         the channel is called "console_channel". ]]
end