Re: glib message logging and AllocConsole

--- In gimpwin-dev@y..., Allin Cottrell <cottrell@r...> wrote:
> On Wed, 9 Oct 2002, Herman Bloggs wrote:
> 
> > I am working on a win32 Gtk app using the mingw compiler.  I have
> > noticed that when ever glib uses the default logging handler, it
> > makes a call to AllocConsole.  This ends up bringing up a console
> > window in Win9x despite having linked with the -mwindows (and no
> > -mconsole).
> 
> Yes, but unless you want to suppress all warning/error messages 
(that
> is an option)

I do want to suppress all of them, can you describe this option?

>, the only way they can appear -- or perhaps I should say
> the most straightforward way for them to appear -- is to pop up a
> "console"  window.  It's very ugly, granted, but then it's trying 
to 
> tell you that something has gone wrong.

Yes I agree this is necessary, but there should be a separation 
between those error messages intended for a developer and those 
intended for the user, and short of being able to do this I would 
like to spare the user from seeing the console, even if the app is in 
alpha.  Currently I leave it up to the user, if he would like to see 
the logging messages he can specify an option on the command line.

> 
> Just "thinking out loud" here:  Wouldn't it be better if the default
> were to pop up Windows message boxes rather than a "DOS box"?  '"GTK
> is going nuts!" <OK>'.  But a problem with this is that when things 
go
> badly wrong you can get a huge spew of repetitive error messages: so
> which would you rather have: an ugly "console" showing the list of
> errors, or the desktop littered with dozens of message boxes all
> saying the same thing, each one demanding to be dismissed with a 
mouse
> click?
> 
> I'd say, first option is to tune your code so you don't get
> errors/warnings.  Second line of defence, if you're sure the 
warnings 
> are misleading or somehow don't really matter, suppress them with a 
> dummy log handler.

That is what I am doing, but it seems I am missing some log domains 
because occasionally the console still comes up, that is why I was 
asking if there is a way to set a handler for all domains without 
individually setting handlers.

> 
> void dummy_output_handler (const gchar *log_domain,
>                            GLogLevelFlags log_level,
>                            const gchar *message,
>                            gpointer user_data)
> {
>     return;
> }
> 
> Allin Cottrell.