topaz and transcript?

> If I had a Dictionary or something else, doesnt much matter what, its
> just for example.
>
> And I wanted to output something like
>
> key = value
>
> in topaz, how do i do that when printit just returns the last returned value?
>
> Do I output to a transcript? I looked through the topaz guide but cant
> find an answer.

> On Feb 10, 2010, at 11:55 AM, Sean Allen wrote:
>
>> If I had a Dictionary or something else, doesnt much matter what, its
>> just for example.
>>
>> And I wanted to output something like
>>
>> key = value
>>
>> in topaz, how do i do that when printit just returns the last returned value?
>>
>> Do I output to a transcript? I looked through the topaz guide but cant
>> find an answer.
>
> As you note, each Topaz run/doit will return the result of the last expression, so it it common to generate a string as the last expression. If you want to send something to standard output, then see GsFile class>>stdout and friends.
>
> topaz 1> run
> GsFile stdout nextPutAll: 'this is a test'; lf.
> true.
> %
> this is a test
> true
> topaz 1>
>
> Topaz doesn't have the concept of a "Transcript".

>
> ----- "Sean Allen" <[hidden email]> wrote:
>
> | If I had a Dictionary or something else, doesnt much matter what, its
> | just for example.
> |
> | And I wanted to output something like
> |
> | key = value
> |
> | in topaz, how do i do that when printit just returns the last returned
> | value?
> |
> | Do I output to a transcript? I looked through the topaz guide but
> | cant
> | find an answer.
>
> A couple more things...
>
> topaz has a help facility, just type 'help' at the topaz prompt and then type a category to get more detailed info.
>
> topaz will provide structured displays for the object returned from an run/doit command. Try something like the following:
>
> display oops
> level 2
> run
> Dictionary new
>  at: #a put: 'abc';
>  at: #b put: #('abc');
>  yourself
> %
>
> will output something like the following:
>
> [242545153 sz:26 cls: 101377 Dictionary] a Dictionary
>  count           [18 sz:0 cls: 74241 SmallInteger] 2
>  tableSize       [58 sz:0 cls: 74241 SmallInteger] 7
>  emptySlotHint   [66 sz:0 cls: 74241 SmallInteger] 8
>  numEmptySlots   [58 sz:0 cls: 74241 SmallInteger] 7
>  unused          [20 sz:0 cls: 76289 UndefinedObject] nil
>  #1 [242543361 sz:2 cls: 67073 Association] an Association
>    key             [4416001 sz:1 cls: 110849 Symbol] a
>    value           [242545665 sz:3 cls: 74753 String] abc
>
>  #2 [20 sz:0 cls: 76289 UndefinedObject] nil
>  #3 [20 sz:0 cls: 76289 UndefinedObject] nil
>  #4 [20 sz:0 cls: 76289 UndefinedObject] nil
>  #5 [242541569 sz:2 cls: 67073 Association] an Association
>    key             [4097281 sz:1 cls: 110849 Symbol] b
>    value           [242545409 sz:1 cls: 66817 Array] an Array
>
> Then the topaz command:
>
> obj@ 242545409
>
> will list the contsnts of the Array. 242545409 is the oop of the Array.
>
> For large objects, you can 'limit bytes' or 'limit oops' to cut down on the amount of data output.
>
> If you're going to be living/debugging in topaz then getting familiar with the display/level/limit and object commands are a good idea:)
>