CosnoleWrite -- I don't understand it

[layer]

Hey guys... I've never really bothered to look at ConsoleWrite... But I now see a good number of scripts using it to debug or whatnot... But I don't fully understand where something is written to using ConsoleWrite? Could I get a further explanation please? Thanks.

[w0uter]

i think it is STDout. but im not sure.

[layer]

I don't know, because the help file says:

Remarks

The purpose for this function is to write to a console which many popular text editors can read.

This does not write to a DOS console.

anybody else?

[w0uter]

console write writes to Scite ...

also autoit has the /stdout when it is ran

so i guessed Stdout.

but yeah i want to know what is can do exept write to scite

Edited July 7, 2005 by w0uter

[Valuater]

I use it to write to the bottom of my SciTe editor for testing

8)

[Valik]

Its written to the stdout handle (Simple C printf() call). By default, Windows applications do not have anything which reads their stdout handle. However, most (good) text editors do read the stdout handle of a "tool" they run. That means text editors would be able to see text from AutoIt if it was sent to stdout. ConsoleWrite() is the gateway through which this is achieved.

[layer]

Ohhh... So you have to start the AutoIt script from ScIte in order to see what scite is going to output to you, or what scite has "caught"... Thanks guys, you cleared it up a bunch

[buzz44]

Alternatively if you don't use SciTe to run your script's (like me) or don't use SciTe at all you can replace ConsoleWrite() with a simple message box.

[DaveF]

A little clarification, in 32-bit Windows any app that you run from the shell (double-click or DOS box) gets assessed by the shell as to whether it's a console app or a GUI app. If it's a GUI app (and any compiled AutoIt3 script is) then its standard input/output pipes get disconnected, Windows making the presumption that you won't need them, even if the app was started from a DOS box. This is why there's no console output from your compiled script if you use ConsoleWrite.

If you run your compiled script another way (like from another script using Run() ) that doesn't invoke the shell, then the STDOUT pipe doesn't get disconnected and any output from ConsoleWrite is available for further processing...

[Sam Hasler]

Ohhh... So you have to start the AutoIt script from ScIte in order to see what scite is going to output to you, or what scite has "caught"... Thanks guys, you cleared it up a bunch

You can get CosnoleWrite output when running from a DOS console but you have to pipe it to another command. I have cygwin installed on my window machine so I just piped it through cat thus:

AutoIt3.exe MyScript.au3 | cat

Note that you have to use @CRLF for line ends.

(I realise this is probably too late for the original poster but I leave it here for anyone googling the same problem as I was)

Edited March 22, 2006 by Sam Hasler

[NextQuestion]

How to display text to the current DOS console, where my au3 is running, like the DIR command do ?

I cannot find in the help

Edited March 24, 2006 by NextQuestion

[Lakes]

Any have a list of (simple) text editors that support this?

I use MetaPad, because it has a goto line function, don`t want all the extra wizz bang stuff... (yet)

[seandisanti]

Alternatively if you don't use SciTe to run your script's (like me) or don't use SciTe at all you can replace ConsoleWrite() with a simple message box.

what editor do you use?

[Valik]

How to display text to the current DOS console, where my au3 is running, like the DIR command do ?

I cannot find in the help

I want to stab you multiple times. This question has been asked about 403 thousand times. There are at least two work-arounds and the subject is covered in multiple threads. Not only that, but your question is off topic in this thread since it's about ConsoleWrite() and the documentation clearly states that ConsoleWrite() does not output to DOS.

[seandisanti]

I want to stab you multiple times.

i know you don't do this to amuse us valik, but seriously, you are awesome. [/blah] oh yeah and welcome to the forum NextQuestion.