[Gambas-user] gb.logging Logger bug or wrong doc?

[T Lee Davidson]

On 12/16/21 6:43 AM, Cristiano Guadagnino wrote:
> This page <https://gambaswiki.org/wiki/comp/gb.logging/logger/_new> says that if sOutput is not specified then log messages are 
> sent to stdout.
> 
> However, if I instantiate the class this way:
> 
>     hLogger = New Logger(LogLvl, LogFormat)
> 
> where LogLvl = Log.Error and LogFormat = Log.DefaultFormat, I always get the error "Log file not writable" when I execute 
> hLogger.Begin.
> 
> On the other hand, if I explicitly do
> 
>     hLogger = New Logger(LogLvl, LogFormat, ":stdout")
> 
> then hLogger.Begin works as expected.

It appears to be a bug.

All the parameters to the Logger object's '_new' method are optional. However, the default value for sOutput is not defined.
[Line 22 at https://gitlab.com/gambas/gambas/-/blob/master/comp/src/gb.logging/.src/Logger.class]


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Lee