Console output in a Qt GUI app?

Question

I have a Qt GUI application running on Windows that allows command-line options to be passed and under some circumstances I want to output a message to the console and then

Answer 1

I used this header below for my projects. Hope it helps.

#ifndef __DEBUG__H
#define __DEBUG__H

#include     

static void myMessageOutput(bool debug, QtMsgType type, const QString & msg) {

    if (!debug) return;

    QDateTime dateTime = QDateTime::currentDateTime();
    QString dateString = dateTime.toString("yyyy.MM.dd hh:mm:ss:zzz");

    switch (type) {

        case QtDebugMsg:
            fprintf(stderr, "Debug: %s\n", msg.toAscii().data());
            break;
        case QtWarningMsg:
            fprintf(stderr, "Warning: %s\n", msg.toAscii().data());
            break;
        case QtCriticalMsg:
            fprintf(stderr, "Critical: %s\n", msg.toAscii().data());
            break;
        case QtFatalMsg:
            fprintf(stderr, "Fatal: %s\n", msg.toAscii().data());
            abort();
    }
}

#endif

PS: you could add dateString to output if you want in future.