[Bf-committers] New feature: Console output space type (requestfor input).

[Toni Alatalo]

On Thursday 20 April 2006 19:05, Ewout Fernhout wrote:
> > 1) You killed the output window.
> it (although I agree with others that it should be optional by command
> line argument).

please be sure to also make it so, that in -b background the normal stdout 
option is enabled by default.

i also like that this new feature is there, but am not sure if it should be on 
by default or not (having the output of a crashed session not disappeared is 
a great advantage of a out-of-blender console, as Chris(?) already noted. and 
copypaste, which of course should work from blender too). 

perhaps the default should be that both normal stdout, so on win32 the extra 
window (on macosx it goes do /dev/console that is viewable with the 
console.app), and the new in-blender console show the output (not having it 
visible in Blender hopefully does not cause a slowdown) - then a runtime 
option to disable the normal stdout.

> Ewout

~Toni

BTW: some of you might be interested in knowing that we used the console 
output quite extensively in making the Elephants Dream .. for debugging, but 
also for making render statistics. the farm system i made gathered all the 
blender stdouts from all the nodes to a single file / renderjob, files like 
this: http://www.blender.org/~antont/04_09

and Nathan wrote a parser for those files, 
http://www.blender.org/~antont/renderstats.py

i dont have the actual stats at hand now, but now that the DVD masters are 
done(!), i guess publishing stats and other stuff on-line has a chance to 
begin happening..