Problem with print...

Questions
1

I’ve built a little sprite editor to kick out the Set statements for building small (up to 64x64 pix) images. Everything is finished, except I can’t get the print statement to cooperate. It seems that any print within nested if statements locks up Codea. For example…

for x = 1, 32 do
print(x)
end

Works just fine, but this code…

for x = 1, 32 do
for y = 1, 32 do
print(y)
end
end

Brings the system to a halt.

Is there something I’m missing here? I’d like to put Spritely out there, but without being able to print the results the value is limited.

Thanks.

2

Print() is REALLY REALLY slow. How long did you wait? I’ve had code where I had to wait 10+ seconds for it even to start because of the print() statements.

3

It locks up solid for a matter of minutes without even producing any output.

I can walk the array with if-thens (painfully) and print the results, but nested if-loops = dead print.

I worked around it by just unfolding the array into a single dimension stream. It’s messy, but it works.

4

Hmm I’ll have to change the way print works so that it doesn’t immediately modify the output buffer, and instead buffers results to change at the end of the frame.