printf question

[Geert Janssens]

On maandag 21 maart 2011, Stephen Brown wrote:
> Hi Christian
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Christian Stimming" <stimming at tuhh.de>
> To: "Stephen Brown" <stephengrantbrown at mcmedia.com.au>
> Cc: "GNUCash Devel" <gnucash-devel at gnucash.org>
> Sent: Monday, March 21, 2011 8:22 PM
> Subject: Re: printf question
> 
> > Zitat von Stephen Brown <stephengrantbrown at mcmedia.com.au>:
> >> run install.sh, open a Microsoft Vista Command prompt, and then
> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >> ----------- P:\soft\gnucash\inst\bin>gnucash-launcher.cmd
> >> 
> >> P:\soft\gnucash\inst\bin>
> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >> ---------- Where does the output of the printf statement go?
> > 
> > If the start-up of gnucash still opens a separate console, it should  go
> > there. If we've switched off that separate console, it goes nowhere.
> 
> How do I switch off that separate console?
> How do I switch on that separate console?
> 
I hope Christian can give more details about this.

> > My workaround for similar debugging steps is to use g_warning("Some
> > number %d", some_number) instead of printf(), i.e. the function 
> > arguments of g_warning are the same as the ones of printf. Once the 
> > logging filename was set up correctly, your g_warning statements will 
> > at least show up there.
> 
> How do I set up the logging filename correctly?
> 
You can use the --logto command line option to gnucash. For example if you run
gnucash-launcher.cmd --logto c:\logfile
your debug messages will be stored in a file called
c:\logfile.ABCDEF.log
with ABCDEF some random digits.
If you don't pass the --logto option, the logfile will default to
%TEMP%\gnucash.trace.ABCDEF.log
%TEMP% is usually c:\Documents and Settings\<username>\Local Data\Temp (WinXP) 
or c:\Users\<username>\Local Data\Temp

Geert