Any way to get at stdout from plugins?

[flippout]

I'm trying to debug a problem in my plugin which uses some code that does printfs().
Is there any way to see stdout when a plugin is run from the editor?

[giggsy]

how about S3DX::log. or so? =)

[flippout]

Indeed yes, that's what I'm doing now.

But it's a bit of a pain, as some of the code I'm using is also used in other solutions which don't include the S3DX headers.

Maybe I can pipe the output if I run the editor from the console? hmmm..

[NiCoX]

Hi,

On Windows you can just compile your plug-in in Debug, attach the ShiVaEditor process to Visual Studio, and use OutputDebugString to print debug logs.

On other platforms, it depends: on some, printf will work, on others NSLog will work, etc.

[flippout]

It seems the express version of Visual Studio doesn't support attach to process

Not a big deal... Maybe I can redefine printf somehow to do an S3DX::log.message() when compiling a plugin...

[flippout]

Actually I take that back - I just discovered that I can enable that feature through tools->settings->expert settings. Sweeeet! No more log debugging!