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Hi there! So it’s the future now (2023 to be precise) and the recommendations in this post aren’t valid anymore. I’d recommend you have a look at CocoaLumberjack instead of using the code here in anything you’re working on.
How many times have you found yourself coding some “sick cocoa code… gosh” (excuse the Napoleon Dynamite reference there), and thought - “Gee whiz Myself, NSLog sure is sorta limp in the actual informative-ness stakes, ain’t it?”
Me? All the time. So I did a bit of hunting about and devised the following logging class based upon comments by Scott Morrison:
#import <Cocoa/Cocoa.h>
@interface ZNLog : NSObject {}
+(void)file:(char*)sourceFile function:(char*)functionName lineNumber:(int)lineNumber format:(NSString*)format, ...;
#define ZNLog(s,...) [ZNLog file:__FILE__ function: (char *)__FUNCTION__ lineNumber:__LINE__ format:(s),##__VA_ARGS__]
@end
@implementation ZNLog
+ (void)file:(char*)sourceFile function:(char*)functionName lineNumber:(int)lineNumber format:(NSString*)format, ...
{
NSAutoreleasePool *pool = [[NSAutoreleasePool alloc] init];
va_list ap;
NSString *print, *file, *function;
va_start(ap,format);
file = [[NSString alloc] initWithBytes: sourceFile length: strlen(sourceFile) encoding: NSUTF8StringEncoding];
function = [NSString stringWithCString: functionName];
print = [[NSString alloc] initWithFormat: format arguments: ap];
va_end(ap);
NSLog(@"%@:%d %@; %@", [file lastPathComponent], lineNumber, function, print);
[print release];
[file release];
[pool release];
}
@end
It’s all licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 license, so just be sure to include a short attribution back to me in your header/notes/readme.