Output gap between lines

Suggestions
1

Can we get this to be a settable parameter? I’ve been doing a lot of code in XCode, and whenever I come back to Codea, the output pane could really benefit from way less space between print() calls. I’m talkin Terminal style output.

2

Is this the kind of print output you would like ( the second group ). It looks like a normal print does multiple new lines whereas printing from a table only does 1. I would like the second group to be the normal print. If I want more space between lines, I can add more new lines.

function setup()
    tab={}
    for z=1,10 do
        print(z)
        table.insert(tab,z)
    end
    print(table.concat(tab,"\
"))
end
3

i always dont know why there’re empty lines the first group

4

yes, that’s exactly what i’m looking for, @dave1707

5

@matkatmusic Unless something changes with the print statement in a future release, the only way to get print like that is to put it into a table and then use the table.concat command to print it. But there will be a gap between seperate table.concat statements. If you take my code above and duplicate the last print statement several times, you’ll see what I’m saying.

6

overwrite the print command:

local oldPrint = print
function print(...)
   oldPrint(table.concat({...}),"\
"))
end

print("Don't","like","a","function?","Replace","it")
7

Figured it out, so there is no line between calls to “print”:

local oldPrint = print
local consoleOutput = {}
function print(...)
    output.clear()
    local args={...}
    table.insert( consoleOutput, table.concat( args, " " ) )
    oldPrint( table.concat(consoleOutput, "\
" ) )
end
    
function setup()
    for z=1,10 do
        table.insert(consoleOutput,z)
    end
    print( "abc ")
    print( "12345" )
end

function touched(touch) 
    print( touch.x, touch.y )
end

The only bug I’ve found is that you can’t do “print( self )”, where self is a class instance

8

@matkatmusic Nice job. That routine will be very useful.

9

@matkatmusic

you can apply the tostring function on all args to ensure there is no bug with print(self)