by Dale Fugier (Last updated:  Wednesday, December 12, 2018)

Overview

The openNURBS C/C++ SDK, which is also included with the Rhino C/C++ SDK, contains a ON_TextLog class that makes it very simple to write, or dump, information to a text file. The class can be very handy when trying to debug geometric objects, for most objects have the ability to dump their contents to a log file.

Sample

The following is an example of using the ON_TextLog class to dump the contents of a brep object to a text file. For more information on ON_TextLog, see opennurbs_textlog.h

CRhinoCommand::result CCommandTest::RunCommand(
    const CRhinoCommandContext& context )
{
  CRhinoGetObject go;
  go.SetCommandPrompt( L"Select brep" );
  go.SetGeometryFilter(
       CRhinoGetObject::surface_object |
       CRhinoGetObject::polysrf_object );
  go.GetObjects( 1, 1 );
  if( go.CommandResult() == CRhinoCommand::success )
  {
    const ON_Brep* brep = go.Object(0).Brep();
    if( brep )
    {
      FILE* fp = ON::OpenFile( L"c:\\bug_report.txt", L"w" );
      if( fp )
      {
        ON_TextLog text_log( fp );
        text_log.Print( L"Dumping Brep...\n" );
        brep->Dump( text_log );
        ON::CloseFile( fp );
      }
    }
  }
  return CRhinoCommand::success;
}