logging to file

* the logger output is now written into a file in the cemu_UI directory called app.log

bin/.gitignore

@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
 /application/
 /resources/
 /log4j2.xml
+/snippet/

src/application/Main.java

@@ -41,16 +41,16 @@ public class Main extends Application {
 	CloudController cloudController;
 	AnchorPane pane;
 	private Scene scene;
-	private String dirWin = System.getProperty("user.home") + "/Documents/cemu_UI";	//Windows: C:/Users/"User"/Documents/HomeFlix
-	private String dirLinux = System.getProperty("user.home") + "/cemu_UI";	//Linux: /home/"User"/HomeFlix
+	private String dirWin = System.getProperty("user.home") + "/Documents/cemu_UI";	//Windows: C:/Users/"User"/Documents/cemu_UI
+	private String dirLinux = System.getProperty("user.home") + "/cemu_UI";	//Linux: /home/"User"/cemu_UI
 	private String gamesDBdownloadURL = "https://github.com/Seil0/cemu_UI/raw/master/downloadContent/games.db";
 	private File directory;
 	private File configFile;
 	private File gamesDBFile;
 	@SuppressWarnings("unused")
 	private File localDB;
 	private File pictureCache;
-    private static final Logger LOGGER = LogManager.getLogger(Main.class.getName());
+    private static Logger LOGGER;
 
 	@Override
 	public void start(Stage primaryStage) {
@@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ private void mainWindow(){
 				pictureCache= new File(dirLinux+"/picture_cache");
 				pane.setPrefWidth(904);	//this could be a kde plasma specific issue
 			}else{
-				directory = new File(dirWin);	
+				directory = new File(dirWin);
 				configFile = new File(dirWin + "/config.xml");
 				gamesDBFile = new File(dirWin + "/games.db");
 				localDB = new File(dirWin+"/localRoms.db");
@@ -188,6 +188,17 @@ private void firstStart(){
 	}
 
 	public static void main(String[] args) {
+		//delete old log file and create new
+		if(System.getProperty("os.name").equals("Linux")){
+			System.setProperty("logFilename", System.getProperty("user.home") + "/cemu_UI/app.log");
+			File logFile = new File(System.getProperty("user.home") + "/cemu_UI/app.log");
+			logFile.delete();
+		}else{
+			System.setProperty("logFilename", System.getProperty("user.home") + "/Documents/cemu_UI/app.log");
+			File logFile = new File(System.getProperty("user.home") + "/Documents/cemu_UI/app.log");
+			logFile.delete();
+		}
+		LOGGER = LogManager.getLogger(Main.class.getName());
 		launch(args);
 	}
 }

src/log4j2.xml

@@ -1,13 +1,20 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<Configuration status="WARN">
+<Configuration status="INFO">
     <Appenders>
-        <Console name="Console" target="SYSTEM_OUT">
-            <PatternLayout pattern="%d{HH:mm:ss.SSS} [%t] %-5level %logger{36} - %msg%n"/>
+
+        <Console name="console" target="SYSTEM_OUT">
+            <PatternLayout pattern="[%-5level] %d{yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss} [%t] %c{1} - %msg%n" />
         </Console>
+
+        <File name="file" fileName="${sys:logFilename}" immediateFlush="true">
+            <PatternLayout pattern="[%-5level] %d{yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss} [%t] %c{1} - %msg%n" />
+        </File>
+
     </Appenders>
     <Loggers>
-        <Root level="INFO">
-            <AppenderRef ref="Console"/>
+        <Root level="debug" additivity="false">
+            <AppenderRef ref="console" />
+            <AppenderRef ref="file"/>
         </Root>
     </Loggers>
-</Configuration> 
+</Configuration>