Short Update

Keeping in line with my rule #2 from last night's post, I was able to get my logger to send its log messages to my WinForms app. However the means are a little questionable.

Calling native code from managed wasn't too hard to figure out. I created a C++/CLR dll which interfaces with my native library. The native library is compiled as a static library, so I'm not quite 100% on exactly how that works, but it just sorta does. In order to have my logger (native) send its log messages up to the Winforms gui, I would have had to do the reverse of this and have native code call managed code. An afternoon reading various articles on the subject didn't really talk me into wanting to try and implement something like that. It would have taken seemingly forever, and not had much payoff as this would probably be the only thing I would use it for.

All that justification being presented, I decided to have my gui request log messages to display. I created another log target for my logger that would queue up log messages sent to it, and once every frame, the gui drains the queue and displays the messages. Its kinda kludgy and hacky, but it works for now.

Now I just need to figure out why the VS debugger won't hit breakpoints set in my native code.