[solved] output text to the command line prompt

#1

dPrintf

has always worked for me

#2 dPrintf is not working.

I tried also cout but when i include <iostream> i get a lot of errors.

#3 Huh. I haven't had any trouble with dPrintf. Although now that I think about it I don't remember if I ever used it in Windows.

... Try "n" at the end of each dprint statement?

edit: If that doesn't work try dFflushStdout() after dPrintf

#4 Both didnt work.

#5 Dunno. dPrintf uses vprintf, which is supposed to write to stdout, even in Windows. So it should work. I assume you're launching your Torque app from a console?

#6 Yes, i start the app from the console (to be exact: from a *.bat) with some parameters attached.

#7 grr.. just realized this stupid GG post script ate the backslash in post #3. That's supposed to "[backslash]n". You probably guessed that though huh?

...edit: being Windows, perhaps it needs both the newline and carriage return characters? "[backslash]n[backslash]r" ?

Sorry, I'm just guessing. I don't have a development environment set up in Windows at the moment.

#8 This is the ConsoleFunction:

ConsoleFunction(dw_writeLn,void,2,2,"")
{
	const char* text = Con::getReturnBuffer(dStrlen(argv[1])+1);
	text = argv[1];
	Con::printf("writeLn executed");
	
	dPrintf(text,"\n\r");
	dFflushStdout();
}

And the *.bat contains this line

DedServer.exe -canvas no -mode CTF -maxplayers 8

But nothing happens.

#9 OK, well the dPrintf statement isn't formatted properly. That won't append the newline that way. It should be:

dPrintf("%s\n", text);

Also, there's no need to set text = return buffer when you're just going to reset it to argv[1]. Actually, there's no need for another char* at all. Try:

dPrintf("%s\n", argv[1]);

That ought to work.

Furthermore... Is this for a dedicated server? Dedicated servers already redirect the Console input/output to the system console/command line. They certainly do in Linux at least. Do they not function similarly in Windows? I'm pretty sure they do. It's been a while but I'm sure I tested that years ago.

#10 No luck. I am a little bit baffled.

#11 Maybe just a @echo off line in the batch file blocking the output?

#12 No, i wrote...

@echo on

#13 I am so stupid. I forgot this command:

enableWinConsole(true); // or false to deactivate

Now it works.

#14 Moo! :)

Glad you solved it!

#15 Hint...
If you only want to output your own text and not the whole stuff from your console (console.log) you can write something like that:

function WinConOutput(%text)
{
   enableWinConsole(true); // enable the console window
   writeToConsole(%text");
   enableWinConsole(false); // disable the console window   
}

If you execute enableWinConsole(true); multiple times, the window is only started once. You will not get multiple instances of the console window. That's good.

And after enableWinConsole(false); the console window will still remain. It is not closed. That's also good.

Ups, before i forget: First insert writeToConsole as a ConsoleFunction.

ConsoleFunction(writeToConsole,void, 2,2,"")
{
   const char* text = Con::getReturnBuffer(dStrlen(argv[1])+1);
   text = argv[1];

   Con::printf("%s\n", text); // if you want a space line between to lines...
   //... otherwise write: Con::printf(text);
}