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<p>The <a class="el" href="namespace_a_log.html" title="The ALog namespace encapsulates constants and functions used to provide logging to files and logging ...">ALog</a> namespace encapsulates constants and functions used to provide logging to files and logging to console (stdout)
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void </td><td class="memItemRight" valign="bottom"><a class="el" href="namespace_a_log.html#a1eeade2b758f2d452e40426f8d37c41a">setLogFileName</a> ()</td></tr>
<tr class="memdesc:a1eeade2b758f2d452e40426f8d37c41a"><td class="mdescLeft"> </td><td class="mdescRight">setLogFileName sets a log file name ("Log_<Date>_<Time>.txt") <br /></td></tr>
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<tr class="memitem:ae110fbae5b42a1dd106a9c53be104b13"><td class="memItemLeft" align="right" valign="top">void </td><td class="memItemRight" valign="bottom"><a class="el" href="namespace_a_log.html#ae110fbae5b42a1dd106a9c53be104b13">deleteOldLogs</a> ()</td></tr>
<tr class="memdesc:ae110fbae5b42a1dd106a9c53be104b13"><td class="mdescLeft"> </td><td class="mdescRight">Cleans up old logs and initializes logging by preparing and installing a QMessageHandler. <a href="namespace_a_log.html#ae110fbae5b42a1dd106a9c53be104b13">More...</a><br /></td></tr>
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bool </td><td class="memItemRight" valign="bottom"><a class="el" href="namespace_a_log.html#ac797ea9883ac75b58c2b08a64bcc26d7">init</a> (bool log_debug)</td></tr>
<tr class="memdesc:ac797ea9883ac75b58c2b08a64bcc26d7"><td class="mdescLeft"> </td><td class="mdescRight">initialise logging, clean up logfiles and install a QMessageHandler. To enable logging of debug messages, pass parameter as true. <br /></td></tr>
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<tr class="memitem:a421bd504f26d924e0557d6359d853f69"><td class="memItemLeft" align="right" valign="top">void </td><td class="memItemRight" valign="bottom"><a class="el" href="namespace_a_log.html#a421bd504f26d924e0557d6359d853f69">aMessageHandler</a> (QtMsgType type, const QMessageLogContext &context, const QString &msg)</td></tr>
<tr class="memdesc:a421bd504f26d924e0557d6359d853f69"><td class="mdescLeft"> </td><td class="mdescRight">aMessageHandler Intercepts Messages and prints to console and log file <a href="namespace_a_log.html#a421bd504f26d924e0557d6359d853f69">More...</a><br /></td></tr>
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<div class="textblock"><p>The <a class="el" href="namespace_a_log.html" title="The ALog namespace encapsulates constants and functions used to provide logging to files and logging ...">ALog</a> namespace encapsulates constants and functions used to provide logging to files and logging to console (stdout) </p>
<p>The console output is color coded - green, amber, magenta for info, warn and crit messages, whereas the log files are just plain text.</p>
<p>There is a maximum of <numberOfLogs> log files with a maximum size of <sizeOfLogs>, at the moment, up to 10 logs of up to 100kB in size are kept, older logs are automatically deleted.</p>
<p>Debug output is not written to the logfile.</p>
<p>In order to start logging, the <a class="el" href="namespace_a_log.html#ac797ea9883ac75b58c2b08a64bcc26d7" title="initialise logging, clean up logfiles and install a QMessageHandler. To enable logging of debug messa...">ALog::init()</a> function has to be called</p>
<p>Credits to <a href="https://andydunkel.net/">Andy Dunkel</a> for his excellent blog post on Qt Log File Rotation! </p>
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<p>aMessageHandler Intercepts Messages and prints to console and log file </p>
<p>The message handler is responsible for intercepting the output from qDebug(), qInfo(), qWarning() and qCritical(), formatting them and printing them to the standard console out and to a logfile using QTextStream. Debug messages are not written to the log file. </p>
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<p>Cleans up old logs and initializes logging by preparing and installing a QMessageHandler. </p>
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