Is there a trick to logging from plugins??

[cheapohubby]

Okay, I've been doing a bit of playing around with the MusicAlbums2 plugin, to get an understanding of how this stuff works. And having reasonable success. But I can't seem to get any log information out of the beast. Is there something fundamental that I need to know?

I have a bunch of Logger.Verbose calls; everything compiles fine, and I've tried setting the logging level to both Error and Verbose. But I can't find any sign of any of the logs in any files in the gbpvr directory tree.

Btw; when using SharpDevelop, is there any way to debug a plugin, other than using the log information? For instance, is there any way to actually set up breakpoints and do real source code debugging?

Any pointers would be appreciated. I didn't notice anything in the tutorial, and didn't have any luck searching for any related info on the forum.

[sub]

I have a bunch of Logger.Verbose calls; everything compiles fine, and I've tried setting the logging level to both Error and Verbose. But I can't find any sign of any of the logs in any files in the gbpvr directory tree.

The messages should be going into the gbpvr.exe.log file.

Btw; when using SharpDevelop, is there any way to debug a plugin, other than using the log information? For instance, is there any way to actually set up breakpoints and do real source code debugging?

I havnt used SharpDevelop, but you should be able to debug your plugin by settin the executable to gbpvr.exe

[cheapohubby]

The messages should be going into the gbpvr.exe.log file.

I havnt used SharpDevelop, but you should be able to debug your plugin by settin the executable to gbpvr.exe

That's what I thought; I just tried it again (brought up gbpvr, then check gbpvr.exe.log), and all the most recent log entries were for the weather plugin having updated about five minutes before I ran gbpvr.

Crap; I think I just figured out my problem... am I correct in my new belief that I have to stop the recording service to get log information? Anyway, that's what I just did, and I now have the missing log entries showing up.

[Jeff]

No, you should not have to stop the recording service for log entries to be logged. You can look at the source code of the weather plug-in for an example.

Jeff

[psycik]

oh, and don't do what i did, log every flaming mp3 file sitting on someone's machine as it gets loaded into a database!!!!