Better print function

[Vurv78]

• Make print use net messages instead of ChatPrint, allowing longer print lengths
• Added clientside convar wire_expression2_print_max_length (Default 1,000)
• Added serverside convar wire_expression2_print_max_length (Default 10,000)
• print now uses the e2 types (rather than lua type) of the argument to locate any toString methods for the type, if any are found, they will be used to display the value.
• print now cuts off with E2Lib.limitString (which shows a trailing ... if it was cut off)
• Created toString(r:) and toString(r), which show as array(1, 2, 3)
• Change vector and angle's toString methods to return as the new print() format was (vec() / ang())
• print no longer has a limit of 256 arguments (although nobody will ever make use of this)
• print costs more ops the longer the combined string

print("Hi", vec(1, 2, 3), table("foo" = "bar"), array(1, "string", vec(), 4))
print(opcounter())

# "Hi"	vec(1.00,2.00,3.00)	foo	=	bar
# 	array(1, "string", vec(0.00,0.00,0.00), 4)
# 130

RFC:

• Worth changing table's toString method to be streamlined with array, vec, ang? Code is really gross so I didn't want to mess with it.
• Max print length fine? Higher? Lower?
• Op costs fine? Higher? Lower?

[thegrb93]

should be %f

[thegrb93]

Taking precision away might not be favorable

[thegrb93]

Maybe a second argument to the function for a rounding decimal place?

[Vurv78]

Thought two digits of precision was fine, if they want incredible precision they could just print the individual digits.
Alternatively could use %g.

And print already had this output, this is just replacing toString's output with it.

[Hazeofdream]

Possible option to have a global print function?

[Vurv78]

Need a rewritten version of https://github.com/Vurv78/VExtensions/blob/master/lua/entities/gmod_wire_expression2/core/custom/sv_printglobal.lua and would need to be opt-in

[Hazeofdream]

Need a rewritten version of https://github.com/Vurv78/VExtensions/blob/master/lua/entities/gmod_wire_expression2/core/custom/sv_printglobal.lua and would need to be opt-in

instead of opt-in because most people can't even edit an e2 line, what about a command similar to wire_holograms_block_client? and print globals show the user sending in console.

[Vurv78]

Would absolutely need to be opt in serverside or would be so nerfed it would be practically unusable, with a long cooldown, preventing more than like 5 lines, adding [E2] before every message, etc

Clientside can be opt out yes

printDriver already has a disclaimer system for the first time it's used on a person so likely that would need to happen here too

[thegrb93]

I think it looks fine. I think this will still net overflow people if they print too much though.

[Vurv78]

Assuming you're talking about the repo I linked and not this, considering the limit is only ~4x higher by default now

[thegrb93]

I mean its not rate limited so doing a bunch of prints will overflow the buffer eventually.

[Vurv78]

Prints do have a burst cooldown, can always tweak it a bit if needed

[thegrb93]

Ah I forgot about the cooldown. Does the cooldown throw? I always hated that it made debugging confusing sometimes because it would fail to print due to it.

[Vurv78]

Yeah I asked in the discord and iirc feedback was that it'd be really bad for debugging having to wrap everything in try catch.

Although with these larger limits it shouldn't be as common.