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Posted by starrunner at Jan 4, 2020, 2:55:42 PM

Access console output
Yesterday another user had problems loading my plugin:
https://sourceforge.net/p/sweethome3d/plug-ins/4/?page=1

I wanted to ask, is it possible for a normal user to see the console output of Sweet Home 3D?

I know that I can call Sweet Home 3D with the console executable of Java:

"...path to my JRE..\bin\java.exe" ... com.eteks.sweethome3d.SweetHome3D

But there are two problems: the included JRE does not contain the "java.exe" and the additional arguments depend on the SH3D version and current environment.

So it would be nice, if we had a command line switch, something like:

SweetHome3D.exe -log MyLogFile.log

Or the user could open the console output from inside of Sweet Home 3D.

As I always offer both for my standalone programs, I could provide a patch for that.

But I wanted to ask first for any objections.

Posted by Puybaret at Jan 5, 2020, 11:15:46 AM

Re: Access console output
No need of a command line switch, simply use 2>pathToLog.txt command line Windows option to redirect console output to the desired file:

"C:\Program Files\Sweet Home 3D\SweetHome3D.exe" 2>MyLogFile.log

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Emmanuel Puybaret, Sweet Home 3D creator

Posted by starrunner at Jan 5, 2020, 7:36:59 PM

Re: Access console output
Good to know, I didn't notice that output redirection even works for javaw.exe.

But 2> only redirects the error ouput, to redirect the whole output it has to be

"C:\Program Files\Sweet Home 3D\SweetHome3D.exe" > MyLogFile.log 2>&1

Anyway, this will help me finding the problems of the error reports.

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