Console Log in UI

[SergioRibera]

Features:

• Easy API to use console log, just need use log crate
• API to make custom filters by module
• UI implementation
• Examples implementations

Screenshot

[SergioRibera]

@jakobhellermann any update(?

[jakobhellermann]

Thanks for the ping, I forgot about the PR. The UI looks good to me and it would be very cool to have this as a feature. I have just one question. Would it be possible to hook into tracing instead of log for the log viewer? Bevy uses tracing internally and I think it would be better to work directly with that.

[SergioRibera]

Thanks for the ping, I forgot about the PR. The UI looks good to me and it would be very cool to have this as a feature. I have just one question. Would it be possible to hook into tracing instead of log for the log viewer? Bevy uses tracing internally and I think it would be better to work directly with that.

that's an excellent suggestion, let me see how I could do it, at the moment I don't think it's possible since I implement a custom logger precisely for the management of these, so let me take a look at it and I'll come back.

[SergioRibera]

I have been checking and it is not possible, internally bevy does things that do not give me the control I need to replace the main logger 😞

[jakobhellermann]

https://discord.com/channels/691052431525675048/692648638823923732/1177575500818944032 looks like someone got tracing messages into egui to work

[peanutbother]

I have been checking and it is not possible, internally bevy does things that do not give me the control I need to replace the main logger 😞

@doonv got it working with their bevy_dev_console crate.
I'm using it with my own fork to use some parts of it: https://github.com/peanutbother/bevy_dev_console/tree/public-interface

maybe we could combine the two as I love the idea of not only a log view but also being able to parse expressions and run custom commands from the console

[ActuallyHappening]

The tracing logging would be nice
but also, I just look at logs in my actual console anyway

[doonv]

maybe we could combine the two as I love the idea of not only a log view but also being able to parse expressions and run custom commands from the console

You can already render bevy_dev_console in any egui context (see https://github.com/doonv/bevy_dev_console/blob/98355f16b7d83ad0db983f2204426079780aa2ae/src/ui.rs#L106) so it shouldn't be that hard to implement it as a widget in bevy_editor_pls. (note: i don't know know how bevy_editor_pls works)

[SergioRibera]

You can already render bevy_dev_console in any egui context (see doonv/bevy_dev_console@98355f1/src/ui.rs#L106) so it shouldn't be that hard to implement it as a widget in bevy_editor_pls.

They are similar but not the same, in this PR I was wanting to make an integration similar to the one Unity has for debugging messages, yours is an interaction with a shell I think, you would have to change a little the UI of your project if you want to keep the essence of this PR

(note: i don't know know how bevy_editor_pls works)

You can see how I did this PR, it's not that complicated or at least that I remember.

Note

By the way: I'm sorry I missed the PR, at the time I was trying to integrate tracing and it is more complicated than log, maybe I could resume the PR now or if someone wants to collaborate, I am totally open to it.

[doonv]

They are similar but not the same, in this PR I was wanting to make an integration similar to the one Unity has for debugging messages, yours is an interaction with a shell I think, you would have to change a little the UI of your project if you want to keep the essence of this PR

The only major differences between my console and Unity's console from I can see is that Unity has filtering and search for log messages, and my console has command parsing.

[blueforesticarus]

fyi I've been working on a custom logging subscriber and window using tracing
specifically for runtime changing the log level. However, I don't yet have a window for viewing logs. I haven't decided how to implement the log storage (most likely per-callsite ring buffers with pointers into something storing the strings by hash (to dedup per-frame messages))