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How do I make Lua.Run() ignore commented lines?
Posted: Fri Feb 05, 2021 8:24 pm
by marche4ever
I noticed myself tweaking inspector lua fields alot, sometimes I just need to temporarily comment out some lua lines to do a quick test (using double slash '//'), then remove the double slash so the code would register again. But Lua.Run() doesn't seem to handle this behaviour, so I have been copying the lua code to some where else, then paste it back afterwards. I wonder are
Re: How do I make Lua.Run() ignore commented lines?
Posted: Fri Feb 05, 2021 11:48 pm
by Tony Li
Hi,
In Lua, use '--' instead of '//'. Example:
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Variable["foo"] = 42; -- Comment: set foo to 42.
Re: How do I make Lua.Run() ignore commented lines?
Posted: Sat Feb 06, 2021 6:03 pm
by marche4ever
that's super useful! thanks!
Re: How do I make Lua.Run() ignore commented lines?
Posted: Sat Feb 06, 2021 8:40 pm
by Tony Li
Glad to help!
Somewhat unrelated: You can also use C# style // comments in Sequence fields:
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Camera(Closeup); // Cut to a closeup of the speaker.
Camera(Wide,,3); // Then zoom out to a wide shot over 3 seconds.