I wonder if anyone here has tried debugging a plugin by printing info in the windows console, maybe the node name, hierarchy, etc. I tried this using the simple standard C++ ostream (cout), but i can’t even make the console open. My plugin sets the Linker->System->Subsystem->Console (/SUBSYSTEM:CONSOLE) option but when the debugger starts, is hidden anyway.
Do I have to manually create the console in the plug-in initialization or is there an easier way of doing this?
You can print to the output window in visualstudio.
see here:
The SDK also provides a function “DebugPrint” allowing easy string formatting, which is nice.
you also can print to maxscript listener with mprintf()
if it help you
What do I have to include to use that? It doesn’t know what it is from a new wizard generated modifier.
Thank you guys, indeed all of those were useful, although a bit restrictive. The thing is I already have a dll logger which works in a windows console and i use for other enviroemnts, it will be perfect if I can redirect my logging printing of this max plugin to that dll, with those options you mention it will be tricky but let me try…
try to include:
#include <stdio.h>