[Cuis-dev] Help req. I don't get how to make a good use of the Transcript

[Nicola Mingotti]

Super thanks Juan,
for the fix and for the explanation !

bye
Nicola




On 12/3/21 19:11, Juan Vuletich wrote:
> Hi Nicola,
>
> On 12/3/2021 2:09 PM, Nicola Mingotti via Cuis-dev wrote:
>> Hi guys,
>>
>> I am not able to do these things, I don't understand if they are not 
>> there because you don't like them
>> or because they are just still to be implemented. If the last holds 
>> true I will put these features in my
>> TODO list of desiderata.
>>
>> 1. Newline does not work, example
>> --------------
>> Transcript show: 'hello
>> world'.
>> => shows hello and world on a single line
>> --------------
>
> Fixed. Find the update at GitHub.
>
>> 2. No Wrapping. strings extends infinitely on the right.
>>
>> 3. No possibility of copying text
>>
>> 4. No vertical scrolling
>
> Right.
>
>> My question are:
>> a) Is there a way (a Preference) to enable features 1,2,3,4 ?
>
> No. Just fixed 1. For 2, 3, 4 try Right Click / Workspace with contents.
>
>> b) Is any of you using the Trascript ? I don't understand at all how 
>> you can survive
>> these limitations.
>>
>> Please enlighten me :)
>>
>> bye
>> Nicola
>
> The reason Transcript is "special" is because it doesn't use Morphic. 
> Evaluate this:
> 1 to: 10 do: [ :i | i print. (Delay forSeconds: 0.2) wait ]
> See how the Transcript shows the updates while the code runs, even 
> though it is running in the UI process and Morphic is frozen. Note 
> that if you have  the TranscriptContents wokspace, its contents only 
> update when the script finishes and Morphic runs again.
>
> This low level Transcript is extremely useful for debugging.
>
> Hope this helps.
> -- 
> Juan Vuletich
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