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alphachapmtl Full Member Offline Posts: 128 Canada	How to print in Message_Area ? Mar 4th, 2008, 5:17am   How to print in Message_Area ? (cause while my program is running, I want to display some status messages without messing the Text_Area) Thanks.

thesprucegoose YaBB Newbies Offline Posts: 16	Re: How to print in Message_Area ? Reply #1 - Mar 4th, 2008, 6:32am   are you talking about the console? If so, then it's println("Your message here"); or println(variableName); Hope this helps, TSG

alphachapmtl Full Member Offline Posts: 128 Canada	Re: How to print in Message_Area ? Reply #2 - Mar 4th, 2008, 7:13am   No, I'm talking about the Message Area, as indicated here:  http://processing.org/reference/environment/index.html

steven Full Member Offline Posts: 111	Re: How to print in Message_Area ? Reply #3 - Mar 4th, 2008, 9:02am   You can't output anything in the message area. In that same page, it is stated: Quote: The message area gives feedback while saving and exporting and also displays errors. The easiest way of outputting data, is using println("text" or variable) which outputs in the console
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