[squeak-dev] OutputDebugString() or equivalent?

Keith Hodges keith_hodges at yahoo.co.uk
Sat Oct 11 14:34:11 UTC 2008


Bill Schwab wrote:
> I am still struggling with a service that either will start and
> immediately stop, or will run but appears unable to listen on port 8080.
>  Usually with things like this, I simply litter code with some type of
> tracing (often OutputDebugString() calls on Windows), and try to bracket
> the problem.  This seems like a good candidate for it, because attaching
> a debugger to Squeak (particuarly for the case in which it won't stay
> running) sounds like a LOT more trouble than printing "got this far"
> messages until I know where it quits.
>
> -log: has not been much help.  Is there something similar to the change
> or error logs that might be appropriate to use?
>
> Bill
>
>   
The Logging package was developed with this in mind, it uses SimpleLog
or Toothpick as a back end.

I am not sure what support either of those have for windows
debugging/tracing. They support Syslog and logging to files. SimpleLog
also supports log rotation.

Keith



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