GDC - no flush to stdio?

Ali Çehreli acehreli at yahoo.com
Mon Apr 1 11:44:16 PDT 2013


On 04/01/2013 11:37 AM, DLearner wrote:
> I was trying to use writef("Escape string" ~ "Display string") to
> simulate a full-screen console.  But writef doesn't seem to flush until
> a newline entered (which disturbs cursor position).
>
> I would have expected a 'flush()' function, but 'flush()' itself
> produces an error (does not exist), and 'fflush()' seems to be for file
> use, not for writing to a screen (stdio).
>
> Please, how do I force a flush to stdio?

writef is a shorthand for stdout.writef because stdout is actually a 
FILE, so stdout.flush() should work.

Ali



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