[Freemint-list] Handling of PRGs/APPs which console output

[Pierre TON-THAT]

Hi,

GEM programs are not supposed to write directly with println() on 
screen, but:
- some librairies do.
- some debug lines can be forgotten.

- evenif I code my APP clean, some messages are displayed from MiNTnet 
layer when packets are not good.
- messages are also written when the A: as SD-card is mounted.
This is not APP, it's directly MiNT.

I always have the console opened on my FireBee. But when I left my 
precious free to people at Alchimie Party, for tests and exploration, 
some users closed this console and found some APP that did println(). 
The result was a mess and nobody wanted to touch/try the machine after 
that. When you don't know XaAES, you can't clean the display with 
Alternate+Home.

So if you want MiNT to be user-friendly, you know what to do.

I remember to have asked for a bugfix in toswin: it does not open 
automaticaly when println() is called and no windows present.

Cheers,

Rajah



Le 05/01/2017 à 17:57, Helmut Karlowski a écrit :
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>> I don't understand the problem here. GEM programs aren't supposed to write to
> Me neither. If someone does not want the console-window on the
> desktop: It can be iconified or hidden.
>
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