LOG(nged)

🎀 log 💅 (the nged manual page) 🎀

okay so bestie, welcome to the log page from the nged corner of the BRL-CAD manuals — this one's short, sweet, and lowkey iconic ✨

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🌸 NAME 🌸

log — the command that controls logging 🫶

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💖 SYNOPSIS 💖

log get|start|stop

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

So the log command is literally the remote control for capturing bu_log output — that's BRL-CAD's internal logging system, fyi — and it drops all of it into an internal buffer that's attached to your current session 💅 no cap.

The three subcommands are, in no particular order except the order they're in:

• start — installs a hook into the bu_log system that intercepts all the subsequent log messages and appends them to an internal buffer (that's ged_log for the note-takers 📝). The way that after you call log start, log messages just accumulate silently in the buffer instead of being printed immediately? obsessed. 🤫
• stop — removes the logging hook and restores normal bu_log output behavior. Messages are no longer captured to the buffer. bye bestie 👋
• get — retrieves and clears the contents of the accumulated log buffer, handing you back all the captured messages since the last log start. Heads up though: the buffer is emptied after this call 🙈 so grab it while you can.

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✨ EXAMPLES ✨

🌈 Example 1. Capture and retrieve log output 🌈

mged> log start
mged> draw some_object.r
mged> log stop
mged> log get

What's happening here, step by step, because iykyk:

1. starts capturing log output 🎬
2. draws an object (which may produce internal log messages — sneaky little things) 🎨
3. stops capturing ✋
4. then retrieves and prints all the log messages that were generated during the draw operation 💌

slay. periodt. 👑

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👑 AUTHOR 👑

BRL-CAD Team 🫶 (genuinely the main characters of this whole thing)

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🍓 BUG REPORTS 🍓

If you find a bug or a problem, reports should be submitted via electronic mail to devs@brlcad.org 📧 — they literally want to hear from you, so don't be shy.

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fr fr though: get empties the buffer after it runs. that's not a vibe check you can redo, so if you need those messages twice, save them. 💀

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and that's the whole page, bestie 🧚💜 this little gem lives in the BRL-CAD user commands collection, filed under the nged manual as LOG(nged) — catch you in the next one, mwah 💋🎀