Softimage does have a preference for logging to a text file, but that text file is not accessible while Softimage is running. The only way to get access to the log contents is to exit softimage and wait for the log to be released.
One problem is the text file is reused between sessions of Softimage. If you exit the application, then restart, Softimage overwrites the file with the output from the new session - again remaining not accessible until Softimage exits. If the artist forgets to copy the log between sessions of Softimage (almost a given), the data is lost. A 2nd problem with the text file preference is it does not take effect until the next session. Originally I tried driving the value of that parameter via the siOnStartup event, but the specified filename wouldn't become the official log until the current session was terminated and the application restarted. If we could get a live switch, that would be useful for this purpose. What I need is a quick dump of the script log contents so it can be attached to a bug report for our custom tools. The bugs aren't necessarily for crashes, but to help troubleshoot when tools don't do what is expected and we need the log to trace what the user has done leading up the problem. It's handy that Softimage provides the current line number in the log, which we can record as a start point when the tool is launched so we only grab relevant output, but the fact we cannot get all the following lines is a problem. Some tools generate massive amounts of information in their debug output, it would be nice to cull some of that down so people troubleshooting the reported issues aren't overwhelmed with noise. We can do that by prepending the beginning each line of output with a keyword, then let the dump tool cull out all lines that do not contain the keyword, for example. But to do that requires we get access to the log contents beyond the current line. Matt From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Siew Yi Liang Sent: Monday, February 17, 2014 8:29 PM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Re: how to obtain full script editor history Um, maybe I'm misunderstanding, but doesn't the script editor have the option in prefs to write to a text file? Scripting > Log to File You could run a simple python script to trim 'n' lines in the document and write it to a seperate file... Yours sincerely, Siew Yi Liang On 2/17/2014 8:11 PM, Matt Lind wrote: I need to write a simple command to dump the script editor history log (or 'n' lines at the tail end of the log) to a text file so artists may attach the file to an issue in our bug tracking system. From what I've seen in the SDK docs, View.GetAttributeValue() only returns the last line, or the selected line. I need the entire contents. Anybody have to deal with this and come up with any backdoor tricks to get the full script log? thanks, Matt
