[Qt-creator] Flushing application output automatically starts a new line in application output pane

[Orgad Shaneh]

On Sun, Dec 28, 2014 at 8:09 PM, Xiaofeng Wu <djangowu at gmail.com> wrote:

> When I call fflush(stdout) or std::cout << std::flush, the application
> output pane automatically starts a new line.
> I am printing out the progress of my program on the same line with '\r',
> if I don't flush the output, the progress is not printed until it finishes.
> If I flush output, then application output pane just starts a new line
> making program print many lines of progress output.
>
> If I run my program in terminal, it does not have this problem, all the
> outputs are printed out on the same line.
>
> Is there an easy fix for this problem?
>
> Best,
>
> Xiaofeng Wu
>
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Not easy either. OutputFormatter should be able to handle \r correctly, but
OutputWindow::appendMessage() adds \n to messages.

If you find a way to solve it, you're more than welcome to push your change
to gerrit and get it reviewed. I don't have time to work on that currently.

- Orgad
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