Hi, I'm working on a summer of code project for MonoDevelop, and tend to write extremely verbose code, which becomes a little hard to handle on stdout/stderr, especially for large programs that make it easy to miss critical things on stdout. I started writing a new logging solution, which is centered around having multiple modules, fine grained control and flexibility, and a GUI to top things off. I wanted to keep this confined to my soc project, but I feel that the community might benefit from my idea(if there isn'ta better one out ther), so I thought of metioning it here.
I've written a project called "PowerLogger", a C# project on monodevelop. I have written a basic implementation and will be uploading on github as soon as some bugs are fixed. The API is written in two classes: LoggerWindow, and LoggerInterface. A single LoggerWindow object is created, and initialized for the whole application. It has a treeview, a textview and some other options . It runs on it's own thread A loggerInterface is created for a class, which wants to log. I have a screenshot with a very early build of the tool running in the top right corner of the screen. http://img200.imageshack.us/img200/2765/logger2.png I'll give an example of the current api: LoggerInterface logger = new LoggerInterface(loggerWindow, "Module Name"); // the loggerwindow object must be declared logger.INFO("The value of my object is: ", content); // content can be any object. We use the C# reflection to generate a JSON representation of the object. // we can also use DEBUG, ERROR, etc. The main advantage is each module is represented on the tree, and each gets it's own log. So I can create multiple modules, and by double clicking on a tree object, I can see that module's log - no poring through stdout, or stderr to find what's relevant :) also, I've added some elementary functionality to pause, change verbosity, save, redirect, etc. If you have any suggestions, questions, or if you know such a project which exists like this, please let me know. I'm very very new to C#. Thanks, Andy -- Anirudh Sanjeev Fourth Year Undergrad - Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur http://anirudhsanjeev.org
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