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Lampton Worm
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Posted: 7th Jan 2006 17:40
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Hi,

Is it possible to dump out custom debug info to the Output window in VC when debugging a DGSDK app?

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Miguel Melo
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Posted: 7th Jan 2006 19:07 Edited at: 7th Jan 2006 19:08
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Sure, if you add the following include at the top of your cpp file



You can then dump messages to the output window with



Note that there are other versions of the macro RPT* (RPT1, RPT2 etc) that automatically take further number of parms and expand in the message, much like printf does. Eg:

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Lampton Worm
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Posted: 8th Jan 2006 13:13 Edited at: 8th Jan 2006 16:03
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Spot on, thanks.

[EDIT], not sure if the forum mangled the paste, but in VC7.1 anyway the macro needs an underscore first, i.e. _RPT0

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Paisleys finest
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Posted: 12th Jan 2006 16:53
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I wouldn't waste my time with that #include

I would just use the Win32 API OutputDebugString instead, and use DebugView (www.sysinternals.com) to view the output. The good thing is, once the exe is compiled you can still get the debug output - good for tracing errors.

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Posted: 12th Jan 2006 19:50
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If you want to force a command prompt to show you can use this function


MSDN Link : http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dllproc/base/allocconsole.asp

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Lampton Worm
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Thanks Scott - just had a play with that, works great.

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Miguel Melo
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Quote: "I would just use the Win32 API OutputDebugString instead, and use DebugView (www.sysinternals.com) to view the output. The good thing is, once the exe is compiled you can still get the debug output - good for tracing errors.
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This sounds great, must give it a try - thx.
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