Adding Console on Compiled Plugin For Debugging

[Simon]

@Christoph-Hart I'm considering leaving this in a finished plugin, and toggling it with a debug switch in the UI settings, so I can instruct users to send me debug logs if need be. Your warning is only about extra memory usage but the all caps CAUTION is a little scary, do you anticipate anything catastrophic happening if I do?

[d.healey]

@Simon There is a built in debug mode that writes to a log file, would that do?

[Simon]

@d-healey ........ I had no idea, you learn something new every day!

[d.healey]

@Simon https://docs.hise.dev/scripting/scripting-api/settings/index.html#setenabledebugmode

[Simon]

Yes I found it, but I have yet to figure out what it does or how it works.

[d.healey]

@Simon https://docs.hise.dev/working-with-hise/settings/development.html#enable-debug-mode

[Simon]

Poked around in the source code, haven't figured out where the log is created, nor whether or how I can print messages to it. As the fileLogger is already set up I'll stick with that.

[Lindon]

@Simon isnt this what the new profiler is for?

[Simon]

@Lindon Does the profiler print custom messages to an external file that I can optionally ask the user to enable and send to me if they have a strange behavior in a particular DAW?

[HISEnberg]

@Simon It will do precisely this. There needs to be a few fixes before its ready for release builds however.