<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" /> <title>prints</title> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="csound.css" /> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="syntax-highlighting.css" /> <meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets Vsnapshot" /> <link rel="home" href="index.html" title="The Canonical Csound Reference Manual" /> <link rel="up" href="OpcodesTop.html" title="Orchestra Opcodes and Operators" /> <link rel="prev" href="printks2.html" title="printks2" /> <link rel="next" href="product.html" title="product" /> </head> <body> <div class="navheader"> <table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"> <tr> <th colspan="3" align="center">prints</th> </tr> <tr> <td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="printks2.html">Prev</a> </td> <th width="60%" align="center">Orchestra Opcodes and Operators</th> <td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="product.html">Next</a></td> </tr> </table> <hr /> </div> <div class="refentry"> <a id="prints"></a> <div class="titlepage"></div> <a id="IndexPrints" class="indexterm"></a> <div class="refnamediv"> <h2> <span class="refentrytitle">prints</span> </h2> <p>prints — Prints at init-time using a printf() style syntax. </p> </div> <div class="refsect1"> <a id="idm281472901685256"></a> <h2>Description</h2> <p> Prints at init-time using a printf() style syntax. </p> </div> <div class="refsect1"> <a id="idm281472901641768"></a> <h2>Syntax</h2> <pre class="synopsis"><span class="command"><strong>prints</strong></span> "string" [, kval1] [, kval2] [...]</pre> </div> <div class="refsect1"> <a id="idm281472901639608"></a> <h2>Initialization</h2> <p> <span class="emphasis"><em>"string"</em></span> -- the text string to be printed. Can be up to 8192 characters and must be in double quotes. </p> </div> <div class="refsect1"> <a id="idm281472901637768"></a> <h2>Performance</h2> <p> <span class="emphasis"><em>kval1, kval2, ...</em></span> (optional) -- The k-rate values to be printed. These are specified in <span class="emphasis"><em><span class="quote">“<span class="quote">string</span>”</span></em></span> with the standard C value specifier (%f, %d, etc.) in the order given. Use 0 for those which are not used. </p> <p> <span class="emphasis"><em>prints</em></span> is similar to the <span class="emphasis"><em>printks</em></span> opcode except it operates at init-time instead of k-rate. For more information about output formatting, please look at <a class="link" href="printks.html" title="printks"><em class="citetitle">printks's documentation</em></a>. </p> </div> <div class="refsect1"> <a id="idm281472901632968"></a> <h2>Examples</h2> <p> Here is an example of the prints opcode. It uses the file <a class="ulink" href="examples/prints.csd" target="_top"><em class="citetitle">prints.csd</em></a>. </p> <div class="example"> <a id="idm281472901631112"></a> <p class="title"> <strong>Example 722. Example of the prints opcode.</strong> </p> <div class="example-contents"> <p>See the sections <a class="link" href="UsingRealTime.html" title="Real-Time Audio"><em class="citetitle">Real-time Audio</em></a> and <a class="link" href="CommandFlags.html" title="Csound command line"><em class="citetitle">Command Line Flags</em></a> for more information on using command line flags.</p> <div class="refsect1"> <a id="idm281472722523672"></a> <pre class="programlisting"> <span class="nt"><CsoundSynthesizer></span> <span class="nt"><CsOptions></span> <span class="c1">; Select audio/midi flags here according to platform</span> <span class="c1">; Audio out Audio in</span> -odac -iadc <span class="c1">;;;RT audio I/O</span> <span class="c1">; For Non-realtime ouput leave only the line below:</span> <span class="c1">; -o prints.wav -W ;;; for file output any platform</span> <span class="nt"></CsOptions></span> <span class="nt"><CsInstruments></span> <span class="cm">/* Written by Matt Ingalls, edited by Kevin Conder. */</span> <span class="c1">; Initialize the global variables.</span> <span class="vg">sr</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="mi">44100</span> <span class="vg">kr</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="mi">4410</span> <span class="vg">ksmps</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="mi">10</span> <span class="vg">nchnls</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="mi">1</span> <span class="c1">; Instrument #1.</span> <span class="kd">instr</span> <span class="nf">1</span> <span class="c1">; Init-time print.</span> <span class="nb">prints</span> <span class="s">"%2.3f</span><span class="se">\\</span><span class="s">t</span><span class="se">%!%!%!%!%!%!</span><span class="s">semicolons! </span><span class="se">%%\\</span><span class="s">n"</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="mf">1234.56789</span> <span class="kd">endin</span> <span class="nt"></CsInstruments></span> <span class="nt"><CsScore></span> <span class="cm">/* Written by Matt Ingalls, edited by Kevin Conder. */</span> <span class="c1">; Play instrument #1.</span> <span class="nb">i</span> <span class="mi">1</span> <span class="mi">0</span> <span class="mf">0.004</span> <span class="nt"></CsScore></span> <span class="nt"></CsoundSynthesizer></span> </pre> </div> </div> </div> <p><br class="example-break" /> Its output should include a line like this: </p> <pre class="screen"> 1234.568 ;;;;;;semicolons! </pre> <p> </p> </div> <div class="refsect1"> <a id="idm281472901626088"></a> <h2>See Also</h2> <p> <a class="link" href="printks.html" title="printks"><em class="citetitle">printks</em></a> </p> </div> <div class="refsect1"> <a id="idm281472901623944"></a> <h2>Credits</h2> <p> </p> <table border="0" summary="Simple list" class="simplelist"> <tr> <td>Author: Matt Ingalls</td> </tr> <tr> <td>January 2003</td> </tr> </table> <p> </p> </div> </div> <div class="navfooter"> <hr /> <table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"> <tr> <td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="printks2.html">Prev</a> </td> <td width="20%" align="center"> <a accesskey="u" href="OpcodesTop.html">Up</a> </td> <td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="product.html">Next</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">printks2 </td> <td width="20%" align="center"> <a accesskey="h" href="index.html">Home</a> </td> <td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> product</td> </tr> </table> </div> </body> </html>