ExtendScript: adding a newline to console messages

[4everJang]

Hello fellow scripters,

I have been using Err( 'some text' ) to push messages into the console, but I have failed to find the way to add newlines to those messages. If anyone has done that, please enlighten me on this detail.

Thanks

4everJang

[Klaus Göbel · Accepted solution]

Hello Jang,

it's a funny thing:

You could use:

Err( 'some text\n' )

or

Err( 'some text\n' )

In both cases a new line is insertet in consfile.txt, but is NOT shownin the FrameMaker console

If you use

Console("some text\r")

or

Console("some text\n")

it works in both, consfile and console

[Ian Proudfoot · Accepted solution]

I normally add  '\r' at the start of a new Console() message. If you don't do that your message my get added to the end of anything that's already there. 

Ian

[Winfried Reng]

I just tried this which did not work:

lsMessage = "Dummy text";
Err (lsMessage + "\r");
Err (lsMessage + "\r");

And not:

lsMessage = "Dummy text";
Err (lsMessage + "\n");
Err (lsMessage + "\n");

Therefore double quotes did not matter.

Only this worked:

lsMessage = "Dummy text";
Err (lsMessage + "\r\n");
Err (lsMessage + "\r\n");

I know \r\n also from e.g. Notepad++.

[frameexpert]

I use \r\n as well. I remember the order by the phrase "registered nurse" 🙂

[4everJang]

Klaus and Ian,

Thanks for the info. Strange - the whole world is using \n but Frame decided to go with \r - a blast from the distant past, when the mechanical typewriter did not insert a newline but alo needed a carriage return. I bet most youngsters do not even know what a carriage return means - taking the rental car back to the airport, perhaps? 🙂

Ciao