The Dark Table - Here's my modified version of DebugConsole.cs (for Unity)

15th November 2011

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Here's my modified version of DebugConsole.cs (for Unity) →

DebugConsole.cs has been really useful to me. Especially when I’ve been trying to debug iPhone or standalone builds of Unity projects.

When I first added the DebugConsole to my project I didn’t understand a lot of the magic it contained. I’m pretty sure it was my first introduction to C# delegates. Since then I’ve leveled up a few times and add a ton of stuff to the DebugConsole script.

I’m sharing my modifications to the DebugConsole, because learning how it worked was so helpful to me.

Here are a couple of the changes that I’ve made, you’ll have to scour the source and learn some stuff to discover all of it.

Generic WatchVar. This should let people watch any object that has a ToString() method.
Added an FPS counter. This is based off one of the scripts in UnifyCommunity.com
Removed GUILayout stuff. This should let it work better on mobile devices (haven’t tried in a while though).
Console Command delegate returns an object which will be printed to the console, so the functions can return info to the console.
Hitting <enter> now submits the command line if it has focus.
Added a toggle key that shows/hides the console (default is “`”, same as the Quake console).
Pressing up arrow goes back through command history (like a Unix prompt).
Log functions return the object that they were sent. This lets you double up logging ( Debug.Log(DebugConsole.Log(“blah”)); ) This is useful because in the editor you can continue to get log messages that can be double clicked on to take you into the source file.

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