Yes, a location is important if the game is installed in a non-writable
directory and you want a user to send you a log.
Trent
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From: SiegeLord [mailto:slabode@xxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: February 6, 2015 7:42 PM
To: alleg-developers@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [AD] allegro.log in release mode
On 02/06/2015 06:34 PM, Trent Gamblin wrote:
This came up before but I don't remember what was done or planned about
it.
I'd like to be able to call al_enable_logging(bool) and enable logging
in release mode (or disable it in debug mode if you wanted to...)
Is the slight overhead of an if statement for every ALLEGRO_DEBUG
(etc) call too much? Should it be hidden behind a second preprocessor
directive so al_enable_logging would only work if Allegro was compiled
that way (might be confusing)?
Anybody have any suggestions that came up before before I start?
Trent
The overhead should be minimal, I'm sure, so I wouldn't worry about adding
an additional pre-processing directive (we can always add one in the future
anyway, if this proves to be a problem). Please make the API a bit more
forward compatible in case we want to set up a verbosity system. This would
just involve making it `al_set_logging_verbosity(int level)` with level > 0
just enabling logging for now. This would be set to 1 by default in debug
builds, and 0 otherwise. Also, I don't know if it's an option right now, but
perhaps a function to set the location of the logging file might be useful.
-SL
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