A tutorial on using the Pantheios logging API library with Visual Studio, and customising output behaviour using callback back-ends.

A user of the Pantheios logging API library wished to know how to use the callback functionality of the be.WindowsConsole back-end. This article describes how to do that, and also provides a general tutorial for how to select Pantheios back-ends in a Windows application. I'm going to be using Visual Studio 2005; users of other IDEs should be able to readily translate the necessary steps to their chosen toolset(s). The article takes the form of a series of instructions, and pertinent information about the steps involved are given as we go, in a loosely test-driven manner, as follows:

• Create the project, and adjust the character-encoding settings
  
• Write some logging code
  
• Install and build Pantheios (and STLSoft)
  
• Satisfy the compiler (by adjusting project settings) to let it know where to find the library headers
  
• Satisfy the linker (by adjusting project settings) to let it know where to find the object libraries
  
• Run the program
  
• Incorporate callback functionality to customise the behaviour of be.WindowsConsole.