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Re: Overwriting printings [message #20451 is a reply to message #20449] Thu, 22 June 2000 00:00 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
John-David T. Smith is currently offline  John-David T. Smith
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Simon de Vet wrote:
>
> I've been playing around with a montecarlo simulation. Since it is very
> boring to watch the program to do nothing while calculating 1000000
> iterations, I have it outputing the current result, which I can watch
> stream by. While the program is probably slowed down by this output, the
> psychological effect more than compensates for it.
>
> However, with 1000000 iterations come 1000000 lines of screen output,
> which is a little ackward.
>
> Is there a way to get IDL to overwrite the previous print output, rather
> than starting a new line? I'm running IDL in Linux..
>
> Simon

There's always David's even fancier progress meter at
http://www.dfanning.com/programs/showprogress__define.pro, or the similar one I
posted a year ago. Both are pretty easy to use. I think an update every 10s
or so should appease most psyche's.

JD

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