Path: news.net.uni-c.dk!newsfeeds.net.uni-c.dk!newsfeed1.uni2.dk!news.algonet.se!newsfeed1.telenordia.se!algonet!uni-erlangen.de!news-nue1.dfn.de!news-han1.dfn.de!news-koe1.dfn.de!do.de.uu.net!innmaster.de.uu.net!news.cityweb.de!not-for-mail From: Wolfgang Beutner Newsgroups: comp.lang.beta Subject: Programm Trace Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 21:55:09 +0100 Organization: Cityweb News Service Lines: 22 Message-ID: <3A6363AD.E31BEE84@cityweb.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: 149.225.50.25 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit NNTP-Posting-Date: 15 Jan 2001 20:52:47 GMT X-Complaints-To: abuse@cityweb.de X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [de] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en,de Xref: news.net.uni-c.dk comp.lang.beta:12689 Hello everybody. I am let me say a total newcomer with beta. I learned about the existence of it by incident. I am a software engineer and earn the daily living by writing software for unix-systems using pure C. Each of our programs opens a tracefile at start and the different routines write into this file. The level of detail is controlled via environment-variables. I would like to have something similar for my beta experiments, but there is no convnient way of doing this. I either have to generate an object and pass it around as parameter or each invocation of my tracefunction has to open the file again and do the initialisation each time. That seems quite inefficent to me. I would appreciate a stream like screen, for instance, which can be used from every object once the stream is opened and set up with it's associated variables. I have been busy reading the betabook and the documentation, but did not get the real idea. Maybe there is a possibilty I did not discover so far ;-) Your advice would be very much appreaciated. Wolfgang Beutner, Dortmund.