Robofont shell output also inside shell

[verbosus]

@frederik @gferreira how does RoboFont handle output, internally? Perhaps it traps stdout and stderr in order to display them in the Output window?

On Version 3.3b (build 1910091627) if I call $ echo "print('hello')" > /tmp/foo.py && roboFont -p /tmp/foo.py I’m seeing nothing either in RoboFont’s output window, in the shell nor in ~/Library/Application\ Support/RoboFont/robofont-3-py3.log

I do wonder if RoboFont can somehow be configured to redirect stdout and stderr to the shell when in remote scripting mode. Perhaps optionally behind a command line switch, so if people prefer output in the Output window, they can still get that?

[gferreira]

@bahman thanks. added to the docs.

[bahman]

btw there is also a Pycharm instruction by @RafaŁ-Buchner :

https://gist.github.com/RafalBuchner/1eeec1105b5eb15215a8a7c9e7790fab

[gferreira]

@bahman yep, I noticed that too – fixed. two very sneaky bugs btw :) 🐞 🐞

[bahman]

Thank you Gustavo, the only thing missing for the sublime text part is the code to create the build system. So I would suggest changing the instruction to match that. Because right now your instructions are referring to a file that is missing in your page.

[gferreira]

@bahman @RafaŁ-Buchner @StephenNixon I’ve collected your instructions for running scripts from SublimeText / Atom / VS Code into a new How-To: Using external code editors to run scripts in RoboFont

I hope it’s all correct, please double check when you can. thanks!

[gferreira]

@RafaŁ-Buchner yes, thanks for the suggestion. it’s on my to-do list.

see also Editing the documentation if you wish to submit changes directly.

[RafaŁ Buchner]

That would be so cool!
I would love that!

@frederik,
small offtopic: maybe it would be nice to put our gist links ( @bahman’s, @StephenNixon’s and mine ) directly or as the how-to guides to the robofont online documentation? I don't know
I've been looking for a similar solution like these for a while on robofont website before.

[frederik]

maybe maybe maybe: everything that is printed into output window also goes into the RoboFont.log file...

[StephenNixon]

I would also love this to exist. :)

[bahman]

Ow Bummer ( T ʖ̯ T). Thank you anyway!

[frederik]

mmm, I guess we are stuck inside RF after a call has been send...