How to make program output print instantly without a scroll animation?
In my code I print a status message to the console window every second. These messages appear instantly when the console log window at the bottom of the screen is not yet full. However, when the console has to scroll to fit the new message on screen, it does so with a sliding animation that makes it seem like all the text in the window slides upwards. This makes it difficult to keep track of which numbers in each print actually change. I would like the scrolling happen instantly to give the impression that there is no sliding motion, just numbers being updated.
Without success I have disabled Appearance -> Animate Windows and Appearance -> Smooth Scrolling in the settings menu. I have also tried disabling all system animations/sliding in Windows 10 Control Panel -> System -> Advanced -> Performance Options -> Visual Effects. Is there a way to change this behavior that I have missed?
A plugin that solves this would be fine, but I have been unable to find one.
I am running Windows 10 and IntelliJ IDEA 2017.3.5 Community Edition.
EDIT: As per request, a video demonstrating the effect: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RO-Qpe3rCf4. IntelliJ scrolling effect to the left, comparison powershell to the right. Try reading the text without pausing. It is almost impossible on the left, but quite easy on the right.
Creating this example, I also noticed that the scrolling effect did not seem to occur if only printing out very few (one or two) lines at a time.
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What do you mean by the scroll animation? Could you please share a short video for this problem? Thanks.
I have updated the post with a link to the video. IntelliJ IDEA to the left, comparison with powershell to the right. Without pausing the video, reading the text on the left is very difficult, but quite easy on the right.
Thanks for the details, I've submitted https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/IDEA-189085. Please follow it for updates. See https://intellij-support.jetbrains.com/hc/articles/207241135 if you are not familiar with YouTrack.
Okay, I will, thank you!
Please try this setting:
Currently on a different computer than the one I used in the original post, running Ubuntu and version 2018.1 of IDEA but this worked here. I suspect it will work on Windows 10 as well (at the very least with an update to 2018.1).
This solves my problem. Thank you very much!