Re: Core logging from the UI

[Phil Muldoon <pmuldoon at redhat dot com>]

Andrew Cagney wrote:
> Phil Muldoon wrote:
> > To aid us in debugging, we've add a feature to start Core logging 
> > from the UI. This aids in tracing down the event sequence of the 
> > sometimes very complex UI requests to/from the Core.
> >
> > To enable Core logging when using the UI, you will need a 
> > logging.properties file in your ~/.frysk directory. In there you need 
> > to set the log level that you wish to see.
> Very very nice, this is going to make debugging so much easier.
> Just a though, would it be possible to extend this so that, like for 
> TestRunner, << -c FINE >> and << -l FINE >> work, or perhaps have it 
> controllable via a menu?  I think both of those would help make the 
> mechanism more UNIX rather than Java like.

Yep, next step is to make log level controllable via a menu. Should not 
be too difficult.

As a little segway, last night I added a developer-debug tool that 
allows you to view logs dynamically in a structured window as the come 
in from the Core and the GUI.

Here is an image from this morning:

http://sourceware.org/frysk/images/DynamicCoreLogView.png

This is already in the cvs head. To turn it on, add:

frysk.core.debug.WindowHandler.level = FINE

To your ~/.frysk/logging.properties

All experimental code caveats apply ;)

Regards

Phil