I am trying to create a log system in my program that will log debugging messages on text files, and I want to save the exact place in the code where the log message routine was called, but I don’t want to use the Assert
function because it creates exceptions and this system is not for logging exceptions only. Also I have to write some debugging info.
Example using assert
:
procedure AnyProcedure();
begin
try
Assert(1=0);
except
on E: Exception do
Log.AddLine('Log occurred is '+E.Message+' : Start');//Log occurred is "c:\progr~..jkdj.pas" at line [29]
end;
//....some code
try
Assert(1=0);
except
on E: Exception do
Log.AddLine('Log occurred is '+E.Message+' : Step1 done');//Log occurred is "c:\progr~..jkdj.pas" at line [37]
end;
//....some code
try
Assert(1=0);
except
on E: Exception do
Log.AddLine('Log occurred is '+E.Message+' : Step2 done');//Log occurred is "c:\progr~..jkdj.pas" at line [45]
end;
//....some code
try
Assert(1=0);
except
on E: Exception do
Log.AddLine('Log occurred is '+E.Message+' : Step3 done');//Log occurred is "c:\progr~..jkdj.pas" at line [53]
end;
//....some code
try
Assert(1=0);
except
on E: Exception do
Log.AddLine('Log '+E.Message+' : End');//Log occurred is "c:\progr~..jkdj.pas" at line [61]
end;
end;
This works fine. The only thing is that it raises an exception and the code becomes too big, so I can’t use a function – see next example function LogMessage
– and call it in another place because the line will always be the same. Also the file name will be where the LogMessage
function is implemented:
Not working example:
procedure LogMessage(AMessage: String);
var AFile, ALine: String;
begin
try
Assert(1=0); //line 29
except
on E: Exception do
begin
AFile:= Copy(E.Message, Pos(' (', E.Message)+2, Pos(', line ', E.Message)-Pos(' (', E.Message)-2);
ALine:= Copy(E.Message, Pos(', line ', E.Message)+7, Pos(')', E.Message)-Pos(', line ', E.Message)-7);
ShowMessage('Log occurred in file "'+AFile+'" at line ['+ALine+'] : '+AMessage);
end;
end;
end;
procedure AnyProcedure();
begin
LogMessage('Start'); //Log occurred in file "c:\progr~....jkashdj.pas" at line [29]
//....
LogMessage('step1'); //Log occurred in file "c:\progr~....jkashdj.pas" at line [29]
//....
LogMessage('step2'); //Log occurred in file "c:\progr~....jkashdj.pas" at line [29]
//....
LogMessage('step3'); //Log occurred in file "c:\progr~....jkashdj.pas" at line [29]
//....
LogMessage('end');
end
You can bind your own TAssertErrorProc
procedure to the AssertErrorProc
variable. You might write something like this:
procedure OnAssert(const Message, Filename: string; LineNumber: Integer;
ErrorAddr: Pointer);
begin
ShowMessage(Format('Assert in file "%s" at line %d.', [Filename, LineNumber]));
end;
procedure TForm1.FormCreate(Sender: TObject);
begin
AssertErrorProc := OnAssert;
end;