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<p class="MsoPlainText">One method I use (on windows) is to add this to the main application<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">int main(int argc, char* argv[])<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">{ <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">#ifdef WIN32<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">AllocConsole();<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">freopen("conin$", "r", stdin);<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">freopen("conout$", "w", stdout);<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">freopen("conout$", "w", stderr);<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">#endif<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">and then you can use std::cout to write to a terminal window.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Note that the paraview main is generated from an *.in file so it's better to modify the *.in file which generates paraview_main.cxx<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">JB<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">-----Original Message-----<br>
From: paraview-developers-bounces@paraview.org [mailto:paraview-developers-bounces@paraview.org] On Behalf Of Utkarsh Ayachit<br>
Sent: 15 December 2011 20:34<br>
To: Joe Ping-Lin Hsiao<br>
Cc: paraview-developers@paraview.org<br>
Subject: Re: [Paraview-developers] How to write to the output window?</span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Try using the vtkErrorMacro() or vtkWarningMacro() ( or use qWarning(), qCritical(), qDebug() in Qt code)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Utkarsh<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 2:30 PM, Joe Ping-Lin Hsiao <<a href="mailto:phsiao@cs.unc.edu"><span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none">phsiao@cs.unc.edu</span></a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">> Hi,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">> I'd like to output debug information to the ParaView output windows
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">> for my C++ plugin.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">> I tried to use cout but nothing shows up. Does anybody know how to do it?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">> Thanks,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">> Joe<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">> _______________________________________________<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">> Paraview-developers mailing list<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">> <a href="mailto:Paraview-developers@paraview.org"><span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none">Paraview-developers@paraview.org</span></a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">> <a href="http://public.kitware.com/mailman/listinfo/paraview-developers">
<span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none">http://public.kitware.com/mailman/listinfo/paraview-developers</span></a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">_______________________________________________<o:p></o:p></p>
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