How can I see cout output in a non-console application?

Question

It seems rather tedious to output to debug window. Where can I find cout output if I am writing a non-console information ?

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Answer 1

I'd like to give my 2 cents.

Given that the maybe is a VS issue about compliancy with the C++ standard or that we could use OutputDebugStringA, if you cannot modify your code base you may like the idea of simply redirect the std::cout to something else, like a file.

So without changing your code base you can do something like suggested here:How to redirect cin and cout to files?

Condensed:

• add the include #include
• at the beginning of your app, in some init, before logging you can use:

std::ofstream out("out.txt");
std::streambuf *coutbuf = std::cout.rdbuf(); //save old buf
std::cout.rdbuf(out.rdbuf()); //redirect std::cout to out.txt!

• the at the end of your app/logging:

std::cout.rdbuf(coutbuf); //reset to standard output again

Hope this may help someone, Kudos to Nawaz that provided the answer in the other thread.