Debugging?

Is it possible to enable some sort of step through mode for debugging purposes?

This afternoon I wrote a simple tunnelling program but managed to delete the world losing the script (that won't happen again), I've just re-typed it using the same written notes (PnP) and my turtle goes berserk. Now the version I wrote this afternoon had a debugging line after each exectution so I could see in real time what it thought it was supposed to be doing… I'm going to re-add that now but it would be nice if I could just have it step through each step of the program slowly (or with user input).

Any ideas?

How about os.pullEvent("key") ? That makes the turtle/computer freeze and wait for you to press a key. Any key, in this case. Be more specific if you need something specific, but that should generally work, albeit tediously.

–Lettuce

Thanks, not sure how to do that so I was working on a different system but it doesn't seem to work as I'd expect it.

local function test(txt)
	if dbg== 1 then
		print("Turtle says" ..txt.. )
		sleep(2)
	end
end

Called with:
test("Moving Forward")

Works fine if I remove the ..txt.. but without that it's pretty pointless…

edit edit:

Ignore me got it… now all I have to do is work out where I effed up the instructions… :/

It seems txt is supposed to be user-inputted text? Why include it as an argument? It would work just fine without it if txt is a variable. Also, I don't concatenate often, so I may be wrong, but I don't think you need the last two dots. ..txt should work, unless you want to concatenate another variable too.

Just in case someone else is having this issue the problem is here

print("Turtle says" ..txt.. )


--it should be
print("Turtle says "..txt)
--or
print("Turtle says ",txt)

Ah yeah should have added my solution of course, I used the 2nd of the two you posted.

txt is the argument passed when I call the function an example being "Mining Forward". So every time the turtle does the mining forward function (tryDig) it is supposed to send a message that it is mining forward… Of course then I had the issue of where in the nested if/while/etc function to place those test functions and I never got it right. However I did get the program to work. I'd missed out a couple of move commands… ;)/>/>

Now I need to work out how to make it pop down a chest and dump stuff… I mean I know the individual commands but haven't worked out how to link them together yet. :)/>/>

Fun fun fun… :P/>/>

TY All for the help.