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Hi,

after Marc Griffith brought up the idea to create a Lua-console to type in commands directly in Celestia, I found out that this is already possible with Celestia 1.3.2pre1 (earlier version didn't have the necessary keyboard-input for scripts).

So I have written a script which reads lines from the keyboard and executes them as Lua-scripts (or more precise as functions) when pressing Enter. You can get the script here:
http://www.h-schmidt.net/celestia/
Currently you can only type, delete (backspace) and execute the current line (Return), but this should be enough to test some Lua-commands. To see the value of something, you have to return it (the line is executed as a function, so if you type "return 1+1", the result will be 2). Variables can be used, so you can save values across different lines.

E.g.

There is no documentation for the new scripting features (like keyboard, mutliviews, etc) yet, so if you have questions, please ask here.

Harald

Harald, I like your webpage, how come it is not in the webring yet?

http://mostlyharmless.sourceforge.net/webring/index.htm

Harry wrote:So I have written a script which reads lines from the keyboard and executes them as Lua-scripts (or more precise as functions) when pressing Enter.

VERY KEWEL!

Thanks Harald!

-Don G.

I've just uploaded a minor update of the lua-console script (lua-console_v1.1.celx). The new version adds the possibility to access already entered commands again. Press CTRL-P to go to the previous line, and CTRL-N to go to the next line (the latter one obviously works only if you've used CTRL-P before). I have only tested on Linux, so I don't know if these keys work ok on Windows...

Harald

Works just fine in WinXP.

Thank you Harald!