Project-Specific Debug Logging Directory Structure

[Dan Korneff]

When you use Settings.setEnableDebugMode(), HISE dumps all debug logs into a global “HISE” folder, which can be a bit messy (especially when juggling multiple projects). It makes it harder to keep logs organized and track down issues for a specific project.

What’s happening now:
Logs go to:
ProjectHandler::getAppDataDirectory(nullptr).getChildFile("Logs/")
Which means all logs—no matter the project—end up in the same generic spot under AppData. Not ideal if you’re debugging multiple projects.

What I’m proposing:
Change DebugLogger::getLogFolder() to use the project’s own AppData directory instead.

So:

Each project gets its own log folder (way easier to debug specific issues)

Presets, logs, and other project stuff stay together

How it works:
This would keeps things backwards-compatible:

In the frontend/plugin: it uses FrontendHandler::getAppDataDirectory() for project-specific logging

In the HISE editor: it still uses the global method

Here’s the tweak I made that seems to be working great:

// DebugLogger.cpp - line 1169:
#if USE_FRONTEND
File f = FrontendHandler::getAppDataDirectory().getChildFile("Logs/");
#else
File f = ProjectHandler::getAppDataDirectory(nullptr).getChildFile("Logs/");
#endif

This would make debugging a bit easier on the end user if Logs were kept together with the plugin data.

[HISEnberg]

@Dan-Korneff Nice thanks for sharing!