Manipulate only certain lines of the Output Window? in Developer Help

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Sep 21 2009, 2:02 pm
Say I wanted to input the text ''Loading...0%'' in the output window, then have that update continuously until it hits 100%, even as more text gets sent to that same output window.

Possible?
#1 Sep 21 2009, 2:08 pm
Mista-mage123 wrote:
Say I wanted to input the text ''Loading...0%'' in the output window, then have that update continuously until it hits 100%, even as more text gets sent to that same output window.

Possible?

You could send 'null' to the output and clear it then rewrite the Loading...x% bit?

src << null
#2 Sep 21 2009, 2:12 pm
In response to Haywire (#1)
Which would delete all other text in that same output window, as well?

Hmm...
#3 Sep 21 2009, 11:43 pm
In response to Mista-mage123 (#2)
This would be doable if there was something like a "text" parameter for outputs.

Currently I can't think of any other way, except maybe try to hide a label on top of the output and then you can update it as you want.
#4 Sep 22 2009, 7:32 am
My question would be... 'Why? And what process do you want to display exactly?'.
If the 'loading process' is constant, I'd suggest a browser element with direct JavaScript input and thus a client sided static element that does not rely on constant network communication.
#5 Sep 23 2009, 12:02 pm
In response to Andre-g1 (#3)
Labels/Browers etc. won't give me the result I am trying to achieve.

My goal is, to say, if you're playing a sci-fi type game as a space marine, and you get infected by a virus, have it infect the entire output window to stream virus data.

It's possible right now but looks very ugly, with my text-line editing thing I want to achieve, it'd have a very scifi effect.

Mista-mage123:: Holy crap its a virus
-Infected-
Then that line in the output becomes, Mista-mage123:: #@%6005843 05490 virus..
and that line constantly changes.

Meh.
#6 Sep 23 2009, 12:07 pm
Well, there is an actual library(demo?) on JavaScript "outputs," which can do exactly what you want(and more! probably).