DotNetZip statusMessageTextWriter property use

[maylortaylor]

I'm trying to get some Status messages exported to a log file that my program creates. The log file is created by the Class Logger and is called by using

mylogger.log(theMessage as string)

The DotNetZip status messages are called by using the code

zip.StatusMessageTextWriter

(Public Property StatusMessageTextWriter As System.IO.TextWriter). I can get these messages to print to my console by calling

zip.StatusMessageTextWriter = Console.Out

but I want these messages to also get printed to my log.

I tried doing this by

mylogger.log(zip.StatusMessagetextWriter.tostring)

but this just outputted "System.IO.TextWriter+SyncTextWriter" .

I am a bit new to coding so i'm unsure of how to get these two thing to work nicely with each other, any guidance would be appreciated greatly.

[dwblas]

I don't know anything about this program but do see a difference in the way you output to the console and the logger. I would suggest that first you get the message into a Python string, and then it should be easy to print or log.

## = Console.out
zip.StatusMessageTextWriter = Console.Out
## no "="
mylogger.log(zip.StatusMessagetextWriter.tostring) 

[maylortaylor]

@dwblas
You didn't change any of my code and i already explained that I couldn't do what you suggested. Also i'm using VB

[dwblas]

Is VB Visual Basic? If so then this thread should be moved from the Python forum to the Visual Basic forum.

[maylortaylor]

home > topics > visual basic .net > questions > dotnetzip statusmessagetextwriter property use .........according to the directory at the top...i'm in the right place.