Debug log improvements

[Snark]

The debug log view is an incredible boon when developing a mod. Really handy. A few additional tweaks would make it even handier.

[B]Stack trace.[/B]
When it logs an exception: Please include the stack trace in the logged message? [I]Please[/I]? Telling me that "some code somewhere, in somebody's DLL (maybe mine, maybe not), threw a NullReferenceException" is not particularly helpful.

[B]Log message filter.[/B]
Unfortunately, there's just one log, and everything writes to it, and it scrolls past, and often when I'm debugging I would really really like to filter the view so that it only shows the lines I'm interested in.

It would be really nice if that tab had a little edit box at the top where you could type a string, and it would filter the view to only show messages that include that string. (Bonus points if you can actually put a regex in, but I'd settle for a simple literal string).

[B]State persistence.[/B]
This last one is a fairly minor nit, but it would remove a source of annoyance. It would be nice if the debug menu could remember its location from one play session to the next, and also remember its am-I-scrolled-to-the-bottom-or-not state. Debugging a mod involves endless cycles of "make code change, rebuild, copy DLL, restart KSP". Every single time, after pulling up the debug menu, I need to drag it to where it needs to be and then drag the scrollbar button to the bottom. Yes, I know, it seems like a little thing, but it gets kinda old when I'm on the umpteenth iteration of restarting the game and every little bit helps. :)

[hermes47]

With your first point, it already does. In your settings file, there's a VERBOSE_DEBUG_LOG option that when set to true, does show the full stack trace. That, and then click on any line that you want to look at more to expand it out.

[Snark]

On 11/25/2015, 10:27:36, hermes47 said:

With your first point, it already does. In your settings file, there's a VERBOSE_DEBUG_LOG option that when set to true, does show the full stack trace. That, and then click on any line that you want to look at more to expand it out.

Thanks.  Took some fiddling to figure out, it's a little button that shows up at the far right of each line.  Clicking on that gives the expansion.

Thanks for the tip!

Edited December 11, 2015 by Snark

[xEvilReeperx]

On 11/25/2015, 8:40:11, Snark said:

[snip]

Debugging a mod involves endless cycles of "make code change, rebuild, copy DLL, restart KSP". Every single time, after pulling up the debug menu, I need to drag it to where it needs to be and then drag the scrollbar button to the bottom. Yes, I know, it seems like a little thing, but it gets kinda old when I'm on the umpteenth iteration of restarting the game and every little bit helps.

Depending on what you're working on, you could try my solution to this problem. I haven't had a lot of feedback on it so far but it's increased my turnaround time dramatically