Question regarding printing to terminal e.g. variable values etc.

Hi all,

I'm very new to the player/stage environment and am currently having a
few issues. I am using stage 3.2.2 in Fedora 12.

I'm trying to code some c++ for making one robot follow the other
which is doing some odd things, hence I am trying to track what is
going on. My initial thought is to get the code to print out the
values of variables it is using, however the standard printf command
e.g. printf("test"); ...which I have been recommended to use doesn't
output anything. It seems it just skips over this line entirely. Can
anybody please tell me why this might be and/or how else to output
values?

Also, is there any more newbie-friendly way of coding for
player/stage? Currently i'm just using emacs and compiling it in the
terminal - its not exactly as convenient to do as coding in say,
Visual Studio which i'm used to... The lack of any form of debugging
is proving a bit of a pain.

Any advice would really be very much appreciated.

Thank you :)

Lana

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