Question

been researching this a while and not sure entirely what to do.

I want to allow users to switch debug mode either on or off. With debug mode on NSLogs will be printed to console.

currently I can set debug mode on or off in the build settings using a preprocessor (DEBUG) and I use the following code to “block” NSLogs.

#ifdef DEBUG
    NSLog(@"If you can see this then debug is on");
#endif

I have created a toggle switch in the settings page to get input from the user but I don’t know how to use this input to then undefined/redefine DEBUG. Any ideas?

I am not sure if this is even possible so any alternate solutions would also be appreciated.

Many Thanks 🙂

Answer 1

You should not use preprocessor directives: using #ifdef DEBUG means that, if DEBUG is not defined, that piece of code doesn’t get compiled at all.

You should instead replace preprocessor directives with a simple if statement that check a global variable (or, at least, that may be a solution).