Print command not printing

[jahmmah]

Godot Version

4.2.1

Question

hi all! I wish my first post was more elegant than this and feel pretty ashamed to ask but I wasted couple hours trying to sort this out

as I am doing some random tutorials, I am requested to do a super basic task… print()… and it just refuses to… I’m 99% that it is a ‘‘me’’ problem but I don’t know where to look at anymore…

I have looked around, and googled my issue. most of the time it was people not toggling the message tab (thankfully that wasnt my case…) because my standard message is toggled on.

I also looked at my debug settings, my stdout is enabled eveything seems fine.
no errors no warning but no print…

now I am at the point of having only that line in my gdscript… :
func _ready(): print(“WTF”)

thanks, looking forward to know what am I missing!

[sancho2]

Are you looking in the right place for the output?
The print command prints to the console and that is usually seen in the editor at the bottom under Output (Ouput should be blue in the editor)
Output from the print command will be prefaced with something like this:

Godot Engine v4.2.stable.official.46dc27791 - https://godotengine.org
OpenGL API 3.3.0 - Compatibility - Using Device: NVIDIA - GeForce 8600 GTS
 
--- Debugging process stopped ---

Alternatively, are you pressing the right run button?
The arrow button is to run the main code (which you specify) and the movie clapper button is to run the current scene being edited.

[mrcdk]

Make sure that you didn’t disable the standard output messages in the Output dock by mistake.

This button:

[jahmmah]

thanks Sancho2, my output is blue and I did actually tried all start modes from the single play symbol to the ‘‘folder clapper’’

and the only thing I still see in my output is:

Godot Engine v4.2.1.stable.official.b09f793f5 - https://godotengine.org
Vulkan API 1.3.277 - Forward+ - Using Vulkan Device #0: NVIDIA - NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Laptop GPU

[jahmmah]

thanks for the reply, yes I made sure it was not something as silly as this. even though I am sure it will be at the end

[sancho2]

@jahmmah

having only that line in my gdscript

Do you have an “extends something” line at the top of the script?
Are there any errors showing?

[jahmmah]

thanks, I think that was it. I had no extends so I guess my script was attached to nothing?
after you said it, I just squeezed a print(“wtf”) under my extends CharacterBody2D and wtf showed…

I had the feeling my script was not attached to anything… could this been the case?

[FencerDevLog]

If you omit extends, the script inherits from RefCounted by default. However, the function _ready() is defined in Node, so Godot never called that.

[jahmmah]

got it! that now explains why I never got that print message! thanks again everyone, now I can get back to my tutorials with the peace of mind and with a bit more knowledge