<?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>fprints</title> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="csound.css" /> <meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.76.1" /> <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="fprintks.html" title="fprintks" /> <link rel="next" href="frac.html" title="frac" /> </head> <body> <div class="navheader"> <table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"> <tr> <th colspan="3" align="center">fprints</th> </tr> <tr> <td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="fprintks.html">Prev</a> </td> <th width="60%" align="center">Orchestra Opcodes and Operators</th> <td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="frac.html">Next</a></td> </tr> </table> <hr /> </div> <div class="refentry" title="fprints"> <a id="fprints"></a> <div class="titlepage"></div> <a id="IndexFprints" class="indexterm"></a> <div class="refnamediv"> <h2> <span class="refentrytitle">fprints</span> </h2> <p>fprints — Similar to prints but prints to a file. </p> </div> <div class="refsect1" title="Description"> <a id="idp24380544"></a> <h2>Description</h2> <p> Similar to <a class="link" href="prints.html" title="prints"><em class="citetitle">prints</em></a> but prints to a file. </p> </div> <div class="refsect1" title="Syntax"> <a id="idp24381704"></a> <h2>Syntax</h2> <pre class="synopsis"><span class="command"><strong>fprints</strong></span> "filename", "string" [, ival1] [, ival2] [...]</pre> </div> <div class="refsect1" title="Initialization"> <a id="idp24434144"></a> <h2>Initialization</h2> <p> <span class="emphasis"><em>"filename"</em></span> -- name of the output file. </p> <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> <p> <span class="emphasis"><em>ival1, ival2, ...</em></span> (optional) -- The i-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. </p> </div> <div class="refsect1" title="Performance"> <a id="idp24436496"></a> <h2>Performance</h2> <p> <span class="emphasis"><em>fprints</em></span> is similar to the <a class="link" href="prints.html" title="prints"><em class="citetitle">prints</em></a> opcode except it outputs to a file. 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" title="Examples"> <a id="idp24438392"></a> <h2>Examples</h2> <p> Here is an example of the fprints opcode. It uses the file <a class="ulink" href="examples/fprints.csd" target="_top"><em class="citetitle">fprints.csd</em></a>. </p> <div class="example"> <a id="idp24439376"></a> <p class="title"> <strong>Example 297. Example of the fprints 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> <pre class="programlisting"> <span class="csdtag"><CsoundSynthesizer></span> <span class="csdtag"><CsOptions></span> <span class="comment">; Select audio/midi flags here according to platform</span> <span class="comment">; Audio out Audio in</span> -odac -iadc <span class="comment">;;;RT audio I/O</span> <span class="comment">; For Non-realtime ouput leave only the line below:</span> <span class="comment">; -o fprints.wav -W ;;; for file output any platform</span> <span class="csdtag"></CsOptions></span> <span class="csdtag"><CsInstruments></span> <span class="op">/</span><span class="op">*</span> Written by Matt Ingalls, edited by Kevin Conder. <span class="op">*</span><span class="op">/</span> <span class="comment">; Initialize the global variables.</span> <span class="ohdr">sr</span> <span class="op">=</span> 44100 <span class="ohdr">kr</span> <span class="op">=</span> 4410 <span class="ohdr">ksmps</span> <span class="op">=</span> 10 <span class="ohdr">nchnls</span> <span class="op">=</span> 1 <span class="comment">; Instrument #1 - a score generator example.</span> <span class="oblock">instr</span> 1 <span class="comment">; Print to the file "my.sco".</span> <span class="opc">fprints</span> "my.sco", "<span class="op">%</span>!Generated score by ma<span class="op">+</span><span class="op">+</span>\\n \\n" <span class="oblock">endin</span> <span class="csdtag"></CsInstruments></span> <span class="csdtag"><CsScore></span> /* Written by Matt Ingalls, edited by Kevin Conder. */ <span class="comment">; Play Instrument #1.</span> <span class="stamnt">i</span> 1 0 0.001 <span class="csdtag"></CsScore></span> <span class="csdtag"></CsoundSynthesizer></span> </pre> </div> </div> <p><br class="example-break" /> This example will generate a file called <span class="quote">“<span class="quote">my.sco</span>”</span>. It should contain a line like this: </p> <pre class="screen"> ;Generated score by ma++ </pre> <p> </p> </div> <div class="refsect1" title="See Also"> <a id="idp24442384"></a> <h2>See Also</h2> <p> <a class="link" href="prints.html" title="prints"><em class="citetitle">prints</em></a> </p> </div> <div class="refsect1" title="Credits"> <a id="idp24443456"></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="fprintks.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="frac.html">Next</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">fprintks </td> <td width="20%" align="center"> <a accesskey="h" href="index.html">Home</a> </td> <td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> frac</td> </tr> </table> </div> </body> </html>