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FrostKiwi
FrostKiwi

Reputation: 821

Sublime Text realtime program output

When running your application over ST's build system it displays the console output only once the application has exited, it also posts the time it took to finish. Is there a way to show the output in realtime, like a normal console would?

cout < text < endl;
[do something for 5 secs];

After 5secs:

text
[Finished in 5.0s]

Upvotes: 0

Views: 306

Answers (1)

FrostKiwi
FrostKiwi

Reputation: 821

OdatNurd's comment explained it perfectly. Buffering was indeed the culprit. I have never came in contact with the whole topic of how characters are buffered and flushed to outputs. Implementing a console is not as straight forward as I thought. In C setting

setbuf(stdout, NULL);

once or calling

fflush(stdout); (which is a bit cleaner)

after every printf solved everything!

Upvotes: 1

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