Ken's Console

Description

NOTE: Deprecated code in favor of my Kengine asset. NOTE: Do not install game maker studio 1 version. It is very outdated and not maintained anymore.

Do you want to quickly debug your video game?

Are you looking for a ready, feature-rich console for debugging purposes?

Look no further! Here is Ken's Console!

Features

• Customizable key, colors, and variables.
• Input field fully-functional: (select, cursor, history, copy-paste, auto-complete...).
• Can be a focusable window or persistently focused.
• Ability to show you Init/controller object's errors at start.
• Triggered with a specified command-line parameter... or not.
• Customizable through the console object's Create event.
• Ability to draw to GUI or to a camera view.
• Rearrangeable Top buttons that run a “console input” with click/hotkeys!
• Expression Watches: you can watch expression values while console is closed.
• All your scripts are callable from the console:
• You can add custom commands to run specific scripts.
• Constants are extensible and available when writing such as c_red, vk_left...
• Appending output to a custom log file.
• Scrollable window.
• Reset, reload session. Save and load sessions automatically.
• Documentation included inside the scripts. (Sorry, there is no separate documentation PDF)
• Much more!

Installation

1. ​Import the extension (Extensions group) to your game maker project.
2. Add the obj_console object as persistent object in the first room.
3. Make sure to read the code in Create event: Scroll down to exposed_console_instance_variables and modify as you like.
4. In general you can use an INI file to save them and read from on later runs. Use the options.load_from to set a path for INI file.
5. Optional: run tests with scr_ken_test to make sure everything works.
6. For any bugs/help/suggestions please contact me through my email.

Thanks.

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