Opened on Jul 22, 2011 at 12:33:56 PM
Closed on Jul 22, 2011 at 5:18:41 PM
Last modified on Jul 22, 2011 at 5:23:25 PM
#1981 closed Feature Request (Rejected)
ConsoleWrite is too obscure
| Reported by: | new2net | Owned by: | |
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| Milestone: | Component: | Documentation | |
| Version: | Severity: | None | |
| Keywords: | StdOut ConsoleWrite Print Echo | Cc: |
Description
It took forever to find a post on the forums for the correct method to send data to stdout. It would be helpful for new users if you wrote a function called "Print" or "Echo" that would delegate the call to ConsoleWrite.
Even if you do not add such a feature, simply adding an alias in the documentation's function list would be incredibly helpful.
Perhaps "StdOutWrite" is more in touch with the AutoIt spirit.
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comment:1 by , on Jul 22, 2011 at 3:00:02 PM
| Version: | Other |
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comment:2 by , on Jul 22, 2011 at 5:18:41 PM
| Resolution: | → Rejected |
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| Status: | new → closed |
I just opened the AutoIt help file and searched for "stdout" and the first result is ConsoleWrite(). If that is "obscure" then you have a very strange definition of the word.
As for the naming convention, it is consistent. Whenever AutoIt reads or writes to it's own stdin/stdout/stderr handles it uses a function prefixed with "Console". When it reads/writes to another applications it uses StdXXX. Two separate sets of functions which serve two different purposes with two different naming conventions.
comment:3 by , on Jul 22, 2011 at 5:23:25 PM
Did you try to use Search with keyword stdout?
Jos
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