Lua shell support #60
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I just cleand up the patch to contain only a single commit with all changes and rebased it to the current head |
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Would be nice if this got merged someday, very useful for developers. |
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@cnvogelg I hope you don't mind me asking here, but I've heard a legend that FS-UAE has a Lua scripting interface, but I can't find any documentation at all about how to use it. Can you explain how to use it? |
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I discovered the answer to my own question. For anyone who's researching the topic, the way to use the scripting interface appears to be that FS-UAE loads I've written an article on the topic which covers the Lua scripting interface, including cnvogelg's interactive terminal patch, and provides partial documentation. Regarding this pull request, it still works fine on 3.1.66, but requires slight adjustments. |
This patch adds a lua shell to FS-UAE.
When enabled with lua_shell = 1 you can connect via telnet to localhost:6800 and enter the shell.
There you can enter lua expressions that will be run inside FS-UAE's lua interpreter.
You can access all of FS-UAE's lua commands.
This patch also cleans up the lua scripting: Make sure to use the same libs in all lua states and ensure that Lua is only used while the emulation core is running. It re-factored the libraries with the available commands and adds new commands to access the floppy and CDROM drive images.
Furthermore, a tools directory was added with two python3 tools: fs-uae-ctl and fs-uae-ctl-ui.
They allow to manage the floppy and CDROM images while FS-UAE is running. The first tool is command line only the second UI uses PyQt4 and offers a UI. Additionally, a python library was added to simplify the access to the Lua shell of FS-UAE from external tools.
More details of this feature can be found on EAB: A lua shell for FS-UAE.
It would be great to see this feature on mainline FS-UAE :)