Console Debug

[ForeverZer0 44]

Console Debug

Authors: ForeverZer0

Version: 1.0

Type: Scripting Tool

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Introduction

 

Redirects output using the "puts" command to a seperate console, instead of using the normal pop-up windows.

Not much more to it than that.

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Features

 

• Simple.
  
• No annoying pop-up windows, though they still do have their uses.
  
• Automatically sets the console window the background.
  

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Screenshots

 

None.

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Demo

 

None.

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Script

 

Here.

 

if $DEBUG || $TEST
 # Create a console object and redirect standard output to it.
 Win32API.new('kernel32', 'AllocConsole', 'V', 'L').call
 $stdout.reopen('CONOUT$')
 # Find the game title.
 ini = Win32API.new('kernel32', 'GetPrivateProfileString','PPPPLP', 'L')
 title = "\0" * 256
 ini.call('Game', 'Title', '', title, 256, '.\\Game.ini')
 title.delete!("\0")
 # Set the game window as the top-most window.
 hwnd = Win32API.new('user32', 'FindWindowA', 'PP', 'L').call('RGSS Player', title)  
 Win32API.new('user32', 'SetForegroundWindow', 'L', 'L').call(hwnd)
 # Set the title of the console debug window'
 Win32API.new('kernel32','SetConsoleTitleA','P','S').call("#{title} :  Debug Console")
 # Draw the header, displaying current time.
 puts ('=' * 75, Time.now, '=' * 75, "\n")
end

 

 

To give the ouput the same functionality of the "p" method where it shows the inspected object, just add this code any 'ol where:

 

 

alias zer0_console_inspect puts
def puts(*args)
 inspected = args.collect {|arg| arg.inspect }
 zer0_console_inspect(*inspected)
end

 

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Instructions

 

Place the script anywhere you like.

In script calls or within scripts, output to it using "puts" instead of the normal "p" or "print".

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Compatibility

 

Shouldn't be any.

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Credits and Thanks

 

• ForeverZer0, for the script.
  

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Author's Notes

 

Please report any bugs/issues/suggestions. I will be happy to fix them.

Enjoy!

Edited May 14, 2011 by ForeverZer0

[kellessdee 48]

I had seen this at chaos project, AND IT IS VERY USEFUL

 

much kudos to you for this :D