Access console output

[starrunner]

Yesterday another user had problems loading my plugin:
https://sourceforge.net/p/sweethome3d/p ... /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:

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"...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:

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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.

[Puybaret]

No need of a command line switch, simply use [font=courier new]2>pathToLog.txt[/font] command line Windows option to redirect console output to the desired file:

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

[starrunner]

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

But [font=courier new]2>[/font] only redirects the error ouput, to redirect the whole output it has to be

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

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