Console for development

Dynad · 10-06-2010 07:25 PM

Hey,

Ive a question about console: is there a way to activate this so i can easily throw print_f() to it so i can see realtime whats going on. Like Ogre3D has this, the render starts from the console. Yes ive seen the tutorial about running EE from a dll but thats all you can do with it. You can't see actually engine stuff in the console.

Is this alot of work to add? I really like to have this option smile

Thanks in advance,
~Dynad

**Esenthel** · 10-06-2010 07:45 PM

I guess you can manually spawn a console window using WIN API
you can also do Log and write text to log.txt, then look it up

Dynad · 10-06-2010 10:37 PM

Yes i use the LogN already for logging but for realtime its not very handy. I will check it out with WIN API.

Yes with WIN API it works indeed, thnx! smile

zerooo · 10-11-2010 09:10 AM

Hey, I am looking for the same solution.
I have been using Processing engine for my basic 2d and 3d graphics, but I recently switched to more powerful Esenthel engine and it looks very promising, but I miss the output window for my debugging needs, is there a simple way to std::cout or printf() from my functions at real time? Maybe, Dynad, you can post a solution with WIN API, I come from Java so I have a basic knowledge of c++ and never played with WIN API.

Masterxilo · 10-13-2010 02:00 AM

@zerooo: Make sure windows.h and stdio.h are included, then just do:

Code:

AllocConsole(); freopen("CONIN$","rb",stdin); freopen("CONOUT$","wb",stdout); freopen("CONOUT$","wb",stderr);

And printf/cout/cin/scanf will work on the standard console again.

zerooo · 10-13-2010 10:49 AM

Thank you, Masterxilo, it works perfect, just had to use stdafx.h for entering windows.h and stdio.h or it won't compile (explained in documentation why)
stdafx.h:

Code:

#define NOMINMAX

#include <windows.h>

#include <stdio.h>

#include <EsenthelEngine/EsenthelEngine.h>

oggs91 · 12-11-2010 03:25 PM

(10-13-2010 10:49 AM)zerooo Wrote: Thank you, Masterxilo, it works perfect, just had to use stdafx.h for entering windows.h and stdio.h or it won't compile (explained in documentation why)
stdafx.h:

Code:

#define NOMINMAX #include <windows.h> #include <stdio.h> #include <EsenthelEngine/EsenthelEngine.h>

Code:

#include "server.h"

#define NOMINMAX

#include <windows.h>

#include <stdio.h>

#include "../NetworkStuff/SimulationObject.h"

#include <EsenthelEngine/EsenthelEngine.h>

to get windows.h compiling, i added the #define NOMINMAX as mentioned before... but why do i need that define?

Dynad · 12-11-2010 03:36 PM

http://www.quantlib.co.uk/blog/what-does-nominmax-do

oggs91 · 12-13-2010 09:31 PM

(12-11-2010 03:36 PM)Dynad Wrote: http://www.quantlib.co.uk/blog/what-does-nominmax-do

thank you Dynad!

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