Message Area Limit

fakepuppet

Does anybody know how many columns that Processing Message Area can display? (without lose first data)

KevinWorkman

Why don't you write a little test program that tests how much can be printed?

void setup(){


  for(int columns = 1; columns < 100; columns++){

    println(columns);

    for(int i = 0; i < columns; i++){
      print("W ");
    }

    println(); 
  }
}

It's going to depend entirely on the width of your window.

Alternatively, it appears that Processing doesn't break on non-whitespace, so you could try separating your columns by underscores instead of tabs.

Better yet, why don't you just save your output into a csv file?

koogs

i think he means lines rather than columns and that the question is asking how long the buffer is.

there is (on linux at least) a file that contains all the console output. it's in, iirc, the tmp directory somewhere.

TfGuy44

I would not rely on the message area for outputting data. Instead, save it to an array of Strings and write it out to a file.

blindfish

@TfGuy44 gets a +1 from me.

I wouldn't rely on the console output: I've often suspected that to be the cause of crashes when it gets heavily overloaded...

fakepuppet

I needed info about message area because library which I used create log error data using "System.out.println".. But, finally I found solution by copying file from console log..