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Description

 

Property allowing to enable text file output for logger.

 

Syntax

 

' SET

<cAppLog>.TextFile.Format = formatString

 

' GET

formatString = <cAppLog>.TextFile.Format

 

Returns

 

String mask for text file format output.

 

Parameters

 

Name

Type

Optional

Meaning

formatString

String

No

Format string specifying how will the emitted output look like.

 

The default value is:

"{Count} {Computer} {ProcId} {User} {Date} {Time} {LevelChar}: {Indent}{Text}"

 

The complete list of special fields follows:

"{AppId}" - value specified via .AppId

"{Computer}" - computer name

"{ProcId}" - current process ID

"{Count}" - number of the logged message, starts from one

"{Date}" - local date

"{DateUTC}" - date in UTC

"{Level}" - numeric value of logging level

"{LevelChar}" - logging level as a single char, for example D

"{LevelVerbose}" - logging level as a word, for example DEBUG

"{Time}" - local time

"{TimeUTC}" - time in UTC

"{User}" - computer user name

 

 

Remarks

 

Any logging to file is performed in "append" mode. That means, that if the file already exists, the logs are added there.

 

Restrictions

 

You need to enable text file logging to make it take effect.

 

See also

 

Examples

 

uses "AppLog"

 

dim myLog as new cAppLog

 

myLog.TextFile.FileName = app_sourcepath + "my.log"

myLog.TextFile.Active   = %true

 

msgbox 0, myLog.TextFile.Format  ' Displays default text file format

 

myLog.Log.Trace("AppLog this is a Trace level text")

myLog.Log.Debug("AppLog this is a Debug level text")

myLog.Log.Info("AppLog this is a Info  level text")

 

myLog.TextFile.Format = "{Text}"  ' Alters the text file format to just text

 

myLog.Log.Warn("AppLog this is a Warn  level text")

myLog.Log.Error("AppLog this is a Error level text")

myLog.Log.Fatal("AppLog this is a Fatal level text")

 

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