On 8 Feb 2013, at 09:38, Alan Teeder <ajtee...@v-twin.org.uk> wrote:
> Many thanks to James, Christian and Frederic.
With the update code, it would be a good time to think about what logging makes
sense on Windows; we now log to a file in FG_HOME, which I hope will make
getting feedback from testers easier ('just send me your log file' - might even
make a button in the about-diaog for this, although we have no portable way to
get an email created with an attachment, eugh).
On Windows, we can open up a console from the app (as we did forever), but
this looks kind of scary for people, so I think it should be optional, but I'm
not sure optional on what. There's also the possibility to use
OutputDebugMessage which goes to the MSVC console. Some people prefer that if
developing inside MSVC, but of course other people dislike it! Anyway since I'm
not on Windows I leave it to the people developing on that platform, to decide
what makes sense.
My next step is to make a custom PUI widget showing certain log types in the UI
- especially, terra sync progress (in that dialog), OSG output (especially
shader compile failures) somewhere, and Nasal output in the 'Nasal console'
dialog. I hope each of these will help usability in the respective areas, and
make it easier to get feedback from less technical users. (Again I'll probably
include a 'copy to clipboard' button in each case)
James
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