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Re: Controlling Print[].

• To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
• Subject: [mg54031] Re: Controlling Print[].
• From: Josef Karthauser <joe at tao.org.uk>
• Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2005 05:31:08 -0500 (EST)
• References: <016601c50d2d$621993e0$6400a8c0@Main>
• Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com

That looks like a really good solution. Thanks for that.

Joe

On Mon, Feb 07, 2005 at 10:54:59AM -0500, Carl K. Woll wrote:
> Josef,
>
> I like Theodore Gray's solution:
>
> Showstatus[status_] :=
>   LinkWrite[$ParentLink,
>     SetNotebookStatusLine[FrontEnd`EvaluationNotebook[],
> ToString[status]]]
>
> Just use ShowStatus instead of Print, and whatever you print will show up in
> the status line. Note that the status line is present in the default style
> sheet. If you happen to use a style sheet which doesn't have a status line,
> you can fix this by going to the option inspector, and setting the
> WindowElements option to include "StatusArea".
>
> Carl Woll
>
>
> "Josef Karthauser" <joe at tao.org.uk> wrote in message
> news:cu78se$m8e$1 at smc.vnet.net...
> >
> > Dear anyone know a way of controlling Print[]?  I've got a large loop
> > that I want to keep tabs on, and see how quickly it is running.  Within
> > one of the inner loops I'm doing something like 'a // Print' where 'a'
> > is some kind of location indicator.  This is fine in principle, but in
> > practice the inner loop runs lots of times and so I get a single output
> > box per time (several pages).  What I would like to do is have them
> > printed one after another on the same line, i.e
> >
> >    for(i = 0; i < 1000; i++) {
> > printf("%d ", i);
> >    }
> >
> > instead of
> >
> >    for(i = 0; i < 1000; i++) {
> > printf("%d\n ", i);
> >    }
> >
> > Is this kind of thing possible?  I can imagine constructing a string in
> > the loop and then printing that, but that wouldn't give the desired
> > affect because it would effectively behave like buffered output; what I
> > want is unbuffered, i.e. print the variable to the current output box,
> > but don't finish it yet as the next output also want to go here.
> >
> > Joe
> > --
>
>
>
>
>

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