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- Subject: Re: Evaluate expressions that modify local variables
- From: Tony Finch <dot@...>
- Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2012 16:58:44 +0100
Rodrigo Dias Arruda Senra <[email protected]> wrote:
> My current approach is to load the command (creating a new chunk) in the
> Lua state and invoke it with pcall. The problem is that I cannot write
> local variables inside the debugged target function, because the debug
> expression is a new chunk.
>
> My question is: How to change local variables (from C code) ?
You can probably do this with a special global variable table used by
debugger commands. Set a metatable on it that uses the debug API
(lua_getlocal / lua_setlocal) to manipulate local variables when they
exist.
Tony.
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