How to make cocos2d waaay less verbose in the debug console

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How to make cocos2d waaay less verbose in the debug console

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Started 2 years ago by micah
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micah
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I'm working on my first cocos2d game and it's really great. But it's constantly outputing tons of stuff to the debug console, so much so that I can't really see my own debug messages because they're buried in hundreds upon hundred of lines that looks like this:

2009-09-24 01:37:18.766 tehinternets[1355:20b] deallocing <MoveTo = 06375DA0 | Tag = -1>
2009-09-24 01:37:18.767 tehinternets[1355:20b] deallocing <MoveTo = 00E5FF20 | Tag = -1>
2009-09-24 01:37:18.767 tehinternets[1355:20b] deallocing <MoveTo = 00ED1D50 | Tag = -1>
2009-09-24 01:37:18.768 tehinternets[1355:20b] deallocing <RotateTo = 00E90350 | Tag = -1>
2009-09-24 01:37:18.768 tehinternets[1355:20b] deallocing <MoveTo = 00ED2480 | Tag = -1>
2009-09-24 01:37:18.768 tehinternets[1355:20b] deallocing <MoveTo = 00E151D0 | Tag = -1>
2009-09-24 01:37:18.796 tehinternets[1355:20b] deallocing <RotateTo = 00EC0E30 | Tag = -1>
2009-09-24 01:37:18.821 tehinternets[1355:20b] deallocing <RotateTo = 0634F570 | Tag = -1>
2009-09-24 01:37:18.849 tehinternets[1355:20b] deallocing <RotateTo = 00E609D0 | Tag = -1>
2009-09-24 01:37:18.876 tehinternets[1355:20b] deallocing <RotateTo = 06318920 | Tag = -1>
2009-09-24 01:37:18.904 tehinternets[1355:20b] deallocing <RotateTo = 063A89F0 | Tag = -1>
2009-09-24 01:37:18.929 tehinternets[1355:20b] deallocing <RotateTo = 063A84F0 | Tag = -1>
2009-09-24 01:37:18.954 tehinternets[1355:20b] deallocing <RotateTo = 063E2530 | Tag = -1>
2009-09-24 01:37:18.981 tehinternets[1355:20b] deallocing <RotateTo = 063D5BD0 | Tag = -1>
2009-09-24 01:37:19.009 tehinternets[1355:20b] deallocing <RotateTo = 00EBC000 | Tag = -1>
2009-09-24 01:37:19.035 tehinternets[1355:20b] deallocing <RotateTo = 00EC0E30 | Tag = -1>
2009-09-24 01:37:19.061 tehinternets[1355:20b] deallocing <RotateTo = 0634F570 | Tag = -1>
2009-09-24 01:37:19.086 tehinternets[1355:20b] deallocing <RotateTo = 00E609D0 | Tag = -1>
2009-09-24 01:37:19.110 tehinternets[1355:20b] deallocing <RotateTo = 06318920 | Tag = -1>
2009-09-24 01:37:19.138 tehinternets[1355:20b] deallocing <RotateTo = 063A89F0 | Tag = -1>
2009-09-24 01:37:19.163 tehinternets[1355:20b] deallocing <AtlasSpriteFrame = 00EBB840 | Rect = (0.00,72.00,30.00,36.00)>
2009-09-24 01:37:19.164 tehinternets[1355:20b] deallocing <AtlasSpriteFrame = 00EC0CA0 | Rect = (0.00,72.00,30.00,36.00)>
2009-09-24 01:37:19.165 tehinternets[1355:20b] deallocing <AtlasSpriteFrame = 063AB5E0 | Rect = (0.00,72.00,30.00,36.00)>
2009-09-24 01:37:19.165 tehinternets[1355:20b] deallocing <AtlasSpriteFrame = 063C42D0 | Rect = (0.00,72.00,30.00,36.00)>
2009-09-24 01:37:19.166 tehinternets[1355:20b] deallocing <AtlasSpriteFrame = 063D67C0 | Rect = (0.00,72.00,30.00,36.00)>
2009-09-24 01:37:19.166 tehinternets[1355:20b] deallocing <AtlasSpriteFrame = 06302550 | Rect = (0.00,72.00,30.00,36.00)>
2009-09-24 01:37:19.168 tehinternets[1355:20b] deallocing <RotateTo = 063A84F0 | Tag = -1>
2009-09-24 01:37:19.193 tehinternets[1355:20b] deallocing <RotateTo = 063E2530 | Tag = -1>

I've searched for it in a bunch of places but can't even find anyone else who seems to have this problem. Thanks!

Posted 2 years ago #
fpc
Member

If I need to highlight a log message I usually prefix it with ************* or something.

Posted 2 years ago #
riq
Key Master

search for COCOS2D_DEBUG on the forum.

Posted 2 years ago #
Steve Oldmeadow
Administrator

Something I've only recently discovered is using Console (Applications/Utilities/Console) instead of the XCode debug output. Console has output from all programs but the thing I love is you can filter the output. So you can just see your app's messages by filtering on the app name, or just see dealloc messages. In CocosDenshion I prefixed all the messages with Denshion: so you can just see CocosDenshion messages if you want. If you are clever with your debug messages you can implement all sorts of possibilities for filtering.

Posted 2 years ago #
riq
Key Master

Good idea. I'll add a prefix to the cocos2d logs.

Posted 2 years ago #
PhilM
Member

Very nice tip Steve, thanks! Added console to my doc.

Posted 2 years ago #
micah
Member

Thanks for the tip! I'll look it up right now.

Posted 2 years ago #

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