Re: Understanding Visibility

[tonyg <tonythegair@gmail.com>]

On Tuesday, 18 September 2012 07:36:45 UTC+1, Thomas Løcke  wrote:
> On 09/17/2012 10:42 PM, tonyg wrote:
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> > I needed to log some stuff from several tasks in one program. So I wrote a little logging package. I used a package containing several text_io.file_types followed by a protected object to make sure the file operations were not interfered with.
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> >      However when things were passed through to inside the protected object I found that the file was not taking the information being passed to it. Can anyone explain this to me, as I think the file should be visible.
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> You could take a peek at how they solved the problem in the GNATCOLL
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> http://docs.adacore.com/gnatcoll-docs/traces.html
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> It works flawlessly, or rather I've not been able to trash it yet. :D
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> Another option is Alog from codelabs:  http://www.codelabs.ch/alog/
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> And a third one is grabbing AWS and look at their AWS.Log package.
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> Lots of good stuff to learn from.
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> Personally I use GNATCOLL.Traces for most of my logging needs, as it
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> Thomas Løcke | thomas@12boo.net | http://12boo.net

I noticed that alog has debian wheezy packages supported \o/ so I am taking a good long look at that rather than gnatcoll which needs to be installed from source. Its looking good so far.