Wish Would it be possible to add Print & Input ?

[IanMc]

To add a couple of BASIC commands like

Print
and Input

For console apps

Dim myString as String = Input

Print("The result of your inputted-ness = " + myString)

Because B4j will make an excellent not to mention very powerful tool for making console apps when you don't need a GUI.

Because Erel's version of BASIC rocks! and it's easy to keep it in your head!

Maybe this is already possible and I've missed it?

 

[Erel]

You can use the Log keyword to print messages.

You can also read from the standard input stream. See this post: http://www.b4x.com/android/forum/threads/non-ui-applications.34657/#post-207735

 

[IanMc]

Thanks Erel

Although it looks fairly simple Log is presumably not only sending output to the console but also up the wire and back to the debugger?

And again although it is fairly simple and it works, that method of 'input' is something that we'd (I'd) have to look up each time.

But nice to know it's doable.

I'm just trying to put the basic back in basic

 

[Erel]

Although it looks fairly simple Log is presumably not only sending output to the console but also up the wire and back to the debugger?

Log just prints a message to the standard output stream.

 

[IanMc]

It is yet another amazing thing that you have accomplished and yet you give it away for free!

You are like a one-man Microsoft without the overhead

 

[Erel]

 

[IanMc]

With this you are opening up the whole world of 'another operating system' to a lot of us.

To illustrate this point, yesterday I installed Linux Mint on one of my little laptops

It's really cool and I would not have even tried that if not for B4j