Live logging

[raptorjr]

Hi

I think it would be good with a Live log somewhere. Both a Live log for global events, the things in the log you can download. But also a log tab in the Program editor.

Now it feels like you have to do a lot of guessing when you develop a program. And the only output you can do is Program.Notify.
It would be nice if you had a new Tab in the Program editor, Console/Log or something, and in your code you could use Log.Print and that is shown in the Log tab. It would make it easier and faster to find your bugs.

[bkenobi]

That would be helpful during the development cycle for sure!  I wrote a small code to write the log contents I needed to a text file.  This works, but a live logger might be a lot easier since on the RPi it requires an extra window being viewed or loading the text file over the network on the development machine.  I wouldn't say it's a critical item, but for a real development environment it's something I would expect to have access to.

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if you use:

Program.Log.Trace("Sample trace message");
Program.Log.Debug("Sample debug message");
Program.Log.Info("Sample informational message");
Program.Log.Warn("Sample warning message");
Program.Log.Error("Sample error message");
Program.Log.Fatal("Sample fatal error message");

they will log to the homegenie log which you can tail -f or similar..