printLine() function?

[sorenpeter]

Hey Guy,

Is there some king of print/echo fuction in improviz, to output numbers to the terminal?
I would like to see the values that i feed into my code, and not just having to guess if my math is correct.

[rumblesan]

There isn't currently, though it would be pretty simple to add. The only potential issue is that because improviz works by evaluating the program every frame, printing numbers every frame is going to spam the console with a lot of output.

not necessarily the end of the world, but not the most user friendly thing :D

Certainly happy to add it in with the onus being on users to enable/disable it though. Possibly as simple as

debugEnable := 1
func debug(data)
  if debugEnable
    print(data)

debug([1,2,3])

[rumblesan]

debug function added in version 0.7.0

[sorenpeter]

Could the debug() only run once on code execution?

[rumblesan]

so there's not really a good way to do this currently due to the constraints of how improviz works. Something that may make it more managable would be to use an external OSC message to control turning it on or off.

printon := ext(:printon, 0)
if printon
    debug(mystuffhere)

[rumblesan]

though another thought has just occured. if you use the debug function in some code in a usercode file for example then it will only be run once. it depends what you're wanting to investigate though I guess