LÖVE

arquivista wrote:kikito sorry to post this here because is a bit off-topic but is a doubt related with your string2Tiles. I know that this could seem so basic... ermm...
well, I was trying to quickly use your example program that use console and prints. I'm on mac and using console to see messages it's not friendly. There is a way of use "print" commands directly in app window without have to transform them all to love.graphics.print and have to put coordinates (instead of "flow" the text as in a console/terminal)?

thanks.

-- file log.lua
local font = -- ... load a font here
local fontHeight = font:getHeight()
local messagesPerScreen = math.floor(love.graphics.getHeight() / fontHeight) 

local logs = {}

function log(msg)
  table.insert(logs, msg)
  if #logs > messagesPerScreen then table.remove(logs, 0) end
end

function draw_log()
  love.graphics.setFont(font)
  love.graphics.setColor(255,255,255)
  for i,msg in ipairs(logs) do
    love.graphics.print(msg, 0, (i-1)*fontHeight)
  end
end

-- main.lua
require('log.lua')

function love.update(dt)
  log('potato')
  log('tomato')
end

function love.draw()
  draw_log()
end

arquivista wrote:I think was a kind of mistake that love.graphics.print must always have coords and don't let to flow text. thanxs kikito I gonna experience this solution.

Well, I don't think Console really friendly on the mac. Here we don't have -console switch to attach the console to the window....
and console here is not like plain terminal and each line is filled with extra info

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EDITED: I'm trying to aply String2Tiles to my roguelike engine and studying if i can do a dual Ascii/Tiles system without have to use a pseudo-ascii output.

• Open the mac Terminal (also called console by the rest of the world)
• Go to the folder where your game is, with cd your/game/path
• Execute love . (notice the dot at the end)

arquivista wrote:I think was a kind of mistake that love.graphics.print must always have coords and don't let to flow text. thanxs kikito I gonna experience this solution.

arquivista wrote:Well, I don't think Console really friendly on the mac. Here we don't have -console switch to attach the console to the window....
and console here is not like plain terminal and each line is filled with extra info

Robin wrote:

arquivista wrote:I think was a kind of mistake that love.graphics.print must always have coords and don't let to flow text. thanxs kikito I gonna experience this solution.

It's not so much of a mistake when you realise LÖVE is a game framework and not a terminal emulator.

arquivista wrote:Well, I don't think Console really friendly on the mac. Here we don't have -console switch to attach the console to the window....
and console here is not like plain terminal and each line is filled with extra info

What, don't you have a Terminal.app or something? I use that when on one of the Macs @ uni.

arquivista wrote:Yeah but it seems print command is not outputed to terminal.app but to the console.app. I spent some time with terminal open waiting for output there! Only then checked console.app

kikito wrote:

arquivista wrote:Yeah but it seems print command is not outputed to terminal.app but to the console.app. I spent some time with terminal open waiting for output there! Only then checked console.app

Even when you execute love directly from the terminal?

arquivista wrote:yeah, I tried from terminal "open test.love" It opens and run like it should do but still not outputting to terminal, but still does to the console. see why isn't really friendly?

$ open test.love
$