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edvin / fxlauncher

Auto updating launcher for JavaFX Applications
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Enhancement: native installers should log update/startup errors to a log file #39

Closed ChrisLMerrill closed 7 years ago

ChrisLMerrill commented 8 years ago

When running from a native installer, the end-user won't see anything logged to stdout. Requiring users to run the program from the command-line to capture the output is not a good end-user experience. It would be great if the launcher would redirect all of its output to a log file that can be easily located by the end-user...perhaps even showing giving them the opportunity to view it or save it to the desktop when an error occurs.

edvin commented 7 years ago

Sorry for the late reply. I'm swamped with writing documentation for TornadoFX and stuff at work, so I have to put this on the back burner. I'll get to it as soon as possible.

terjedahl commented 7 years ago

Edvin, perhaps you might consider pulling native installers out of this project - and in stead have it as a separate project, if so desired? That way you could focus on the primary goals of this package. ( Should I open a separate issue on this?)

edvin commented 7 years ago

That's an interesting thought, Terje. I will for sure consider this for the reboot/2.0.

ronsmits commented 7 years ago

@ChrisLMerrill can you check if the changes fxlauncher where it always logs to a known file satisfies your request?

ronsmits commented 7 years ago

As this has been open for more then a month without response, closing it.