CrappyConsole

A crappy console created in Godot to simulate printf/scanf commands in GDScript.

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BSD 3-Clause License
Copyright (c) 2021, Felipe V. Calderan
All rights reserved.
See the full license inside LICENSE file

Why?

Because GDScript does not provide a function to get user inputs in the console like C's scanf or Python's input. This prevented me from building simple programs for a console-like environment to test some piece of code or just practice plain GDScript.

How to use it

Open the project in Godot and edit main.gd. The _ready function works like C's main, or GDScripts SceneTree's _init function.

To prompt the user for an input, use the scanf function, like this:

var a = yield(scanf("Type the value for A: "), "completed")

To print something to the console, use the printf function, like this:

print("The value of A is %f\n" % a)

There's a simple calculator example in the program's _ready function to illustrate how it's done in practice. Also... Yes, scanf is very janky, but it does the job :D

Why scanf and not input?

I agree that the scanf function is more similar to Python's input than to C's scanf, but it triggered me that I couldn't name the print function just print (since Godot already uses this name), so I called it printf and then it would be a crime to call the input function input.

Anyway, you have the source, so go ahead and call it input, you monster!

Have fun c:

fvcalderan/CrappyConsole

CrappyConsole

Why?

How to use it

Why scanf and not input?