0000372: Add GUI Console And Default Log File

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0000372

OLV

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2011-11-03 11:09

2011-11-13 15:14

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Fred

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Fred

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normal

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feature

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0.0.1-SNAPSHOT

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1.0.0

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0000372: Add GUI Console And Default Log File

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Rather than dumping information and errors etc to the terminal, which may not be visible, or popping up heaps of annoying windows, we should switch to outputting to a different PrintStream that dumps to a graphical console that can be opened and closed at any time.

Additionally, the data from this console should be stashed in a log file in the .OpenLogViewer directory near the configuration files and overwritten each time by default.

Config options for the following could be included for bonus points:

1) log level including the usual debug, info, warn, error, quiet etc
2) Date stamping logs instead of over writing them

Once it is tidied up and clean, we can output a lot of great system information and app information to the file and when a user has issues, then can just send it or attach it to help us diagnose those issues smoothly.

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(0000572) Fred (administrator) 2011-11-13 15:13	I'm going to use LOGBack + SLF4J for this. I've developed another app using them recently and have some experience, so it should be straight forward to achieve.

(0000573) Fred (administrator) 2011-11-13 15:14	Some links on the subject: http://www.thecoderush.com/easy-java-logging [^] http://blog.frankel.ch/thoughts-on-java-logging-and-slf4j [^] http://www.javacodegeeks.com/2011/01/10-tips-proper-application-logging.html [^]