Re: [GD-General] runtime error logging

[Julien K. <ma...@ju...>]

You could take the __FILE__ and __LINE__ preprocessor definitions as source
for your hash-function.. (jsut an idea.. never needed something like this).

greets
Julien Koenen
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tom Forsyth" <to...@mu...>
To: <gam...@li...>
Sent: Monday, July 14, 2003 6:02 PM
Subject: RE: [GD-General] runtime error logging


> We do three things. (1) surround high-frequency info with single quotes.
(2)
> hash the characters _not_ in single quotes. (3) check hash against a list
of
> "I've already reported that" errors. So you have:
>
> LOG_ERROR ( "Unknown effect '%s' in mesh '%s'\n", sEffectName,
sMeshName );
>
> So this is a spritnf-style format string, and will come out to be
something
> like:
>
> Unknown effect 'WATRE' in mesh 'blah.x'
> Unknown effect 'WATRE' in mesh 'blah2.x'
> Unknown effect 'WATRE' in mesh 'blah3.x'
>
> ...so then we remove everything in single quotes:
>
> Unknown effect  in mesh
> Unknown effect  in mesh
> Unknown effect  in mesh
>
> ...and hash those. And of course they all come out with the same hash
value
> and only the first one gets reported if you click on "Ignore all" in our
> little dialog box.
>
>
> Tom Forsyth - Muckyfoot bloke and Microsoft MVP.
>
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Andras Balogh [mailto:bn...@ma...]
> > Sent: 14 July 2003 16:41
> > To: gam...@li...
> > Subject: [GD-General] runtime error logging
> >
> >
> > There are some cases when I have to deal with runtime errors that
> > cannot be seen before, such as when the user executes an invalid
> > script. I can handle these events, but I would also like to log them
> > somewhere. The problem is that these invalid events may happen in
> > every frame (or even multiple times a frame) flooding the log file in
> > no time...
> >
> > Any ideas on how I could do "singleton" logging of errors?
> > Can't think of any simple solution :(
> >
> > thanks,
> >
> > Bandi
> >
> >
> >
> >
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