Forgive me if this has been touched on somewhere else, but a forum search turned up little.
Is there a debug mode that will give me a console or the like for me to see print statements, progress, etc? or do I have to continue to just write out my own log files to find out how this is going? I feel like I’m tuning an engine using a couple of extendable chopsticks through the exhaust pipe. 
Thanks in advance for the enlightenment.
-ctj
There currently isn’t a debug mode. It’s something we’ve wanted to add for a while now, and it’s still on the wish list.
What you could do is have a test job, and just keep requeuing the pre and post script tasks to test. I know it’s not ideal. 
+1 for an IDE in Deadline or Deadline hooks into an existing IDE such as VS2010+, via a Visual Studio Extension? or maybe Eclipse?
Awesome for scripting, testing, debugging, extending Deadline and even by the developers to provide support to clients! 
thanks for the response Russell. Yes, some form of feedback on scripts would be ideal, but I sympathize with getting the window built before picking drapes.
-ctj
Not sure if this might help, but you can have your scripts log to the Slave log using ClientUtils:
from Deadline.Scripting import *
...
ClientUtils.LogText( "hello world" )Also, in Deadline 6, the pre/post scripts take the DeadlinePlugin object as a parameter, so you can write to the render log as well:
def __main__( deadlinePlugin ):
deadlinePlugin.LogInfo( "this is some info" )
deadlinePlugin.LogWarning( "THIS IS A WARNING!" )That will at least give you some feedback.
Cheers,
Ah, thank you. I’ll check that out.
-ctj