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#X text 12 85 LIBRARY internal;
#X text 12 125 WEBSITE http://crca.ucsd.edu/~msp/;
#X text 12 25 LICENSE SIBSD;
#X text 12 105 AUTHOR Miller Puckette;
#X text 12 165 HELP_PATCH_AUTHORS This document was updated for Pd
version 0.38.4 by Dave Sabine and Hans-Christoph Steiner as part of
a project called pddp proposed by Krzysztof Czaja to build comprehensive
documentation for Pd. Jonathan Wilkes revised the patch to conform
to the PDDP template for Pd version 0.42.;
#X text 12 5 KEYWORDS control;
#X text 12 45 DESCRIPTION print messages to the terminal window;
#X text 12 65 INLET_0 anything;
#X text 12 145 RELEASE_DATE 1997;
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#X text 8 2 [print] Related Objects;
#X obj 22 43 print~;
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#X obj 483 3 print;
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pdpedia: print;
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#X text 8 2 [print] Oddities;
#X obj 33 189 print;
#X msg 33 73 1;
#X msg 42 97 float 1;
#X obj 65 161 symbol test;
#X msg 60 120 symbol this;
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#X msg 121 310 one 2 three;
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#X obj 130 371 print STRAIGHT;
#X msg 105 290 list 1 two 3;
#X msg 88 270 1 two 3;
#X msg 130 331 list one 2 three;
#X obj 56 371 route list;
#X text 20 222 [print] only interprets the "list" selector when the
following body of the message is an implied list \, i.e. a set of atoms
that starts with a float.;
#X text 20 428 This document was updated for Pd version 0.38.4 by Dave
Sabine and Hans-Christoph Steiner as part of a project called pddp
proposed by Krzysztof Czaja to build comprehensive documentation for
Pd.;
#X text 138 114 "symbols" are not interpreted;
#X text 140 129 (i.e. "symbol" is also printed);
#X text 20 38 floats are interpreted (i.e. it doesn't show the word
"float" before the number):;
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#X text 98 332 anything;
#X text 168 331 - the [print] object takes any message and prints it
to the console window. When the print object receives a message \,
its output will appear in the console window following the name of
the print object and a colon (:). If the print object does not have
a name (which you can supply as an argument within the print object
itself) then the word "print" appears followed by a colon (:) and your
message.;
#X text 168 428 - [print] routes output directly to the console window.
;
#X msg 159 64 walk the dog;
#X msg 85 64 bang;
#X msg 126 64 234;
#X obj 85 99 print;
#X msg 158 151 walk the dog;
#X msg 85 151 bang;
#X msg 125 151 234;
#X obj 85 188 print myPrintObject;
#X text 209 188 A print object with a name.;
#X text 132 92 A print object without a name. Be sure you can see the
terminal window as you click on these messages.;
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#X text 8 2 [print] Lists;
#X text 23 38 When the print object receives a list \, it will output
the entire list as a single message. Like below:;
#X obj 25 98 print print_this_list;
#X msg 25 75 10 20 30 foo;
#X msg 26 180 10 20 30 foo;
#X obj 26 233 unpack f f f s;
#X obj 26 266 print unpack_this_list;
#X text 23 127 To output the list as separate elements \, the list
needs to be unpacked first. Note that [unpack]'s outlets are triggered
from right to left. Like below:;
#X text 37 200 The arguments here are used to tell Pd what type of
atom to expect: (f = float \, s = symbol).;
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#X text 82 219 Use the "-n" flag to suppress "print:" in the output
to the console:;
#X msg 85 253 test;
#X obj 207 286 print;
#X msg 207 254 test;
#X text 159 286 vs.;
#X obj 85 286 print -n;
#X text 168 470 - if you provide a symbol as an argument \, the symbol--
followed by a colon-- will precede the output when it is sent to the
console. Or you may use the "-n" flag to only print the incoming message
(see example above).;
#X text 78 469 1) symbol atom;
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#X text 11 23 print messages to the terminal window;
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