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Interactive Window

The bottom frame, called the Interactive Window, gives you direct access to the Python interpreter. You can enter commands and immediately see the response to these commands. You can use this while a world is running to affect your virtual world immediately without having to make changes to you script. This is sometimes a fast way to prototype various techniques.

In the following image, an interactive command is used to change a model's position:

The color of the command bar (green in the image above) indicates where a command will be executed:

• Normal (no highlight): The command is executed within the interpreter embedded in the editor.
• Green highlight: The command is sent to the running scripts process and executed within the main scope of its local interpreter.
• Blue highlight: The debugger is stopped at a breakpoint. The command is executed in the local scope of the selected call stack frame.

Script output

Both standard output (stdout) and standard error (stderr) messages generated by the Python interpreter are displayed in the Interactive window.

Standard error messages will be highlighted red in the window. Clicking on Python traceback locations will open the script and place the cursor at the line where the error occurred.

Note: If an error is at the end of a line (e.g. missing parentheses or colon) the error will register on the next non-empty line in the script.

Script output navigation

Use the buttons in the lower right corner of the window to navigate script output:

   The Up/Down arrow buttons jump to the beginning of the next/previous script output.

     If you place the cursor on a line that isn't the last line, and new output is generated by your script, this icon will appear notifying that there is new output. Clicking the icon will place the cursor at the last line.

Keyboard shortcuts

• Alt+I: Places input focus on the interactive window.
• Up/Down arrow keys: Cycles through the last entered interactive commands