Processing: Console window losing text

[GenJamGuy]

I just installed Processing, version 3.3.4 on a Mac (OS 10.12.5). The Console window displays only the most recently generated line or two of text, and there is no scroll bar. For example, this program:

void setup() {
}
void draw() {
  println("In draw " + frameCount);
}

displays only the last two lines of text, regardless of how big the Console window is, and there is no scroll bar in the Console window. Doing Edit->Select All from the Console window only selects what is visible (not surprisingly).

[bmFicg]

I can confirm
Processing version 3.3.4 Windows 10 64bit

Recompiled my own version of Processing from source 4 Weeks ago, i I thought, i did something wrong. Now with the official release, i see, - it is broken.

[benfry]

Bummer; this is a regression from trying to fix https://github.com/processing/processing/issues/4825

It should be keeping several thousand characters or a few hundred lines, whichever comes first. But apparently that's not, uh, working properly…

[JAY-M-ERICSSON]

Same here indeed - OS 10.12.5, Processing 3.3.4, Java 8 update 131 (build 1.8.0_131-b11)

[StanLepunK]

println, work fine on Sublim Text.

[luistoledo]

I increased the console.lines property in preferences.txt

It was set on 2, changed it to 500, and now console shows (500) the proper output.

(@benfry I guess some systems doesn't update the property from #4825)

[GenJamGuy]

That fixed it for me too. Thanks!

[jeremydouglass]

Increasing the console.lines setting in preferences.txt worked for me as well.

[benfry]

Thanks for the update @luistoledo, that at least tells me where the problem is. Probably just a typo that it's using the variable that refers to the height of the console (in lines) instead of the number of lines to save in the console.

[bmFicg]

Nice, this workaround seems to to fix the issue!

and my personal opinion: a tutorial how to read and write to a tmp file would fix https://github.com/processing/processing/issues/4825 too. :)

[Geoffree3]

Increasing the console.lines setting works. But had to edit preferences.old as well as preferences.txt.