TIP: Buffered Tracing - console.log

Scripter is well known to have an annoying problem which is that quite often Trace messages will get dropped when there is other midi activity needing to be serviced at a higher priority. This can make it difficult to get complete tracing, when this all too familiar message is displayed in Scripter's console window:

...console bandwidth exceeded, thinning some traces...

To use this, just copy the following little snippet of code into your Scripter script.

var console = {
   maxFlush: 20,
   maxLen:   1000,
   b:[],
   log: function(msg) {this.b.push(msg)},
   flush: function() {
       var i=0;
       while(i<=this.maxFlush && this.b.length>0) {
           var line=this.b.shift();
           if(typeof line != "string") {
               line = line.toString();
           }
           var tl = line.length;
           var p = 0;
           var sub=line.substr(p,this.maxLen);
           Trace(sub);
           p += this.maxLen;
           while(p < tl) {
               sub = line.substr(p,this.maxLen);
               Trace("..." + sub);
               p += this.maxLen;
           }
           i++;
       }
   }
};
function Idle() {
   console.flush();
}

// Intead of Trace(msg) use this:
console.log("Hello World");

// Instead of event.trace() use this:
console.log(event.toString());

If you still get the thinning message when using console.log(), then adjust the value of maxFlush in the code snippet. The default is set to flush out 20 messages at a time, but if that is too much for your system to handle, you can lower this value a little bit until no messages are lost.

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