Changing scripts at runtime

pdoom

I noticed that Decoda has some problems handling scripts that change at runtime.
To investigate this, I created a simple app that executes SCRIPT1 (see below) at the press of a button.

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-- SCRIPT1:
tst = loadfile("c:\\test.lua");
tst();
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where c:\test.lua looks like this:

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-- C:\TEST.LUA:
a = 5;
b = a+3;

decoda_output("Hello world!");
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I do the following in Decoda:
- Create a new project
- Set the command to my app.exe
- 'Add existing file ...' c:\test.lua

- Run (F5)
- Hit the button in my app so SCRIPT1 gets executed

All works fine so far. Decoda correctly associates 'c:\test.lua' with the file already present in the project. I can set breakpoints in test.lua, watch values, and the text 'Hello World!' is shown in the debug output. Now I do the following:

- In Decoda, modify test.lua like this:

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-- C:\TEST.LUA:
a = 5;
b = a+3;
b = b+1;

decoda_output("Hello world!");

decoda_output("Hello again!");
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- Save test.lua
- Hit the button in the app again, so SCRIPT1 gets executed again.

Now the debug output is as expected ('Hello World!' / 'Hello again!'), however, debugging test.lua doesn't work correctly anymore. It looks like the debugging commands (F10, setting breakpoints) think that test.lua is still in its original state, so F10 misses some of the lines containing code, and I can only set breakpoints on the lines that contained code in the original version of test.lua.

Is this a known issue? Or am I missing something?
We would like to use Decoda in a context where scripts are loaded from external files, and those files can be edited at run-time. But obviously we can't use Decoda here if it cannot handle changing scripts...

Thanks for any help!

pdoom

Does nobody know anything about this? Anyone else reloading their scripts at runtime?...

Max

This is a known issue. Sorry for the delayed response, I missed your initial post. We're testing a new version that should improve this situation a bit.