well...

[wise nova]

So you would like to do named formatting as you can do it in python for example?

[ember mural]

yes... well... like i can do with UE_LOGFMT

[wise nova]

i personally havent looked into UE_LOGFMT

somewhere ages ago i found a list of better logging macros

#define TRACE_LOG_PRINTF(LogCat, FormatString , ...) UE_LOG(LogCat,Log,TEXT("%s: %s"), *TRACE_STR_CUR_CLASS_FUNC_LINE, *FString::Printf(TEXT(FormatString), ##__VA_ARGS__ ) )

looks like this

in code you would do:

TRACE_LOG_PRINTF(yourlogcategory,"My test string %s", *myteststringvariable)

is that not clear/readable enough for you?

[ember mural]

then i could just go with FString::Printf

[ember mural]

jeah

[wise nova]

i mean you could try to use the fmt lib as external lib (https://github.com/fmtlib/fmt) but i doubt its worth the hassle

[ember mural]

yes, not worth it

[wise nova]

then u can do stuff like this print("You clicked {button} at {x},{y}.", arg("button", "b1"), arg("x", 50), arg("y", 30));

so your concern is just about readability if i understood correctly?

[ember mural]

mostly, yes

its not a big issue

[wise nova]

well if you have some specific patterns which reoccour you could also just make a macro for that^^

[ember mural]

i just thought since Epic added the nice UE_LOGFMT, they may have also done something similar for Printf, but seems they did not

[wise nova]

I suspect what you could to is dive into the definitions of UE_LOGFMT and see if you can duplicate if for the Printf. The only downside would be that you than have to use macros for printf as well

is there any include needed for UE_LOGFMT? just tried it myself but could not find it at v5.4.2

Edit: Nevermind found it