Lua: replace Lua's print with ShowConsoleMsg()? (FIXED)

[Meo-Ada Mespotine]

Lua has a built-in print-function which usually allows outputting text to the shell-window.
However, in Reaper the shell isn't available in that way and therefore outputs of print go into the void.

So I would propose, that print could be made another variant of reaper.ShowConsoleMsg(), so print outputs values to the ReaScript-console.

Less typing and that's really practical.

[cfillion]

Lua's print works nicely on macOS and Linux. Since it's faster than ShowConsoleMsg, it's useful from time to time...

[Meo-Ada Mespotine]

Oh, so it's actually a Windows issue? Hmm...

Where does it output the values?

[X-Raym]

print isn't strictly like showconsole msg though, as it adds breaks line to the end and do the string conversion. It can also takes multiple arguments.


If you want less typing, a simple Msg() function at top of the script can do the trick.


You can also reassociate named function to another function definition.


The fact that it doesnt behave the same in win and mac though might indeed ned consideration.

[schwa]

just do this?

print=reaper.ShowConsoleMsg
print("Hello world\n")

[Justin]

perhaps we could mod lua's print() to output to OutputDebugString on win32...

[Meo-Ada Mespotine]

@Justin
That would be great

@Schwa @X-Raym
Yeah, but to do this in every new script is quite tedious. Having it natively available would be really neat.

It's no dealbreakee but one of the nice things making everyday coding a little faster.