Miles Sound System SDK 7.2a

Call Logging under Xbox 360

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Miles contains a powerful diagnostic feature that allows developers to create a timestamped list of all of their application's foreground Miles calls, along with their parameters and results. The call log will be sent to an application callback routine registered with AIL_register_trace_callback, or to a plain text file if no debug-trace callback function has been registered by the application.

To take advantage of MSS's built-in logging without recompiling your application, just create a text file called "mss_debug_log.txt" in the root directory of your Xbox 360 hard drive (xe:\ from a PC, or d:\ inside a running Xbox application). If this file exists, then, during execution of all subsequent Miles calls, a timestamped API call log will be written to the file.

DirectSound itself also issues warnings to the output debug console, so you can watch that as well.

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Group: Overview for Microsoft Xbox 360
Related Functions: AIL_register_trace_callback
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