viewing prints statements on OS X

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viewing prints statements on OS X

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Hi there,
Sorry if this a newb question, but I've searched and can't find an answer to this. In OS X I can drag and drop my folder with main.lua on love executable and it runs, however I can't work out how to view the print statements in my code. Can anyone tell me how please?

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You have to run it from terminal.
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When you don't run it via the terminal, you can view error messages and print messages (at least when you close LOVE) via Console.app (just search for it). The messages will come from either org.love2d.love or just "love".
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That's just what I was looking for, thank you so much!
As much as I enjoy terminal, typing out directories is a bit of a pain :)
BlackBulletIV wrote:When you don't run it via the terminal, you can view error messages and print messages (at least when you close LOVE) via Console.app (just search for it). The messages will come from either org.love2d.love or just "love".
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Praetor3k wrote:As much as I enjoy terminal, typing out directories is a bit of a pain :)
bash.rc and alias are your friends. Or even just including love in your path.
Then it is a matter of typing "love ."
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Praetor3k wrote:That's just what I was looking for, thank you so much!
As much as I enjoy terminal, typing out directories is a bit of a pain :)
No worries :)

Remember that the terminal has directory completion, just type something and press tab for it to complete the rest of the path (if there's only one matching filename). As TechnoCat said, you can use alias to help you as well. Edit a file located at ~/.bash_profile and add this line:

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alias love="/Applications/love.app/Contents/MacOS/love"
then you can type

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love .
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