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+// The contents of this file are in the public domain. See LICENSE_FOR_EXAMPLE_PROGRAMS.txt
+
+/*
+
+    This is a simple example illustrating the use of the logger object from 
+    the dlib C++ Library.
+
+
+    The output of this program looks like this:
+
+    0 INFO  [0] example: This is an informational message.
+    0 DEBUG [0] example: The integer variable is set to 8
+    0 WARN  [0] example: The variable is bigger than 4!  Its value is 8
+    0 INFO  [0] example: we are going to sleep for half a second.
+  503 INFO  [0] example: we just woke up
+  503 INFO  [0] example: program ending
+
+ 
+    The first column shows the number of milliseconds since program start at the time
+    the message was printed, then the logging level of the message, then the thread that
+    printed the message, then the logger's name and finally the message itself.  
+
+*/
+
+
+#include <dlib/logger.h>
+#include <dlib/misc_api.h>
+
+using namespace dlib;
+
+// Create a logger object somewhere.  It is usually convenient to make it at the global scope
+// which is what I am doing here.  The following statement creates a logger that is named example.
+logger dlog("example");
+
+int main()
+{
+    // Every logger has a logging level (given by dlog.level()).  Each log message is tagged with a
+    // level and only levels equal to or higher than dlog.level() will be printed.  By default all 
+    // loggers start with level() == LERROR.  In this case I'm going to set the lowest level LALL 
+    // which means that dlog will print all logging messages it gets.
+    dlog.set_level(LALL);
+
+
+    // print our first message.  It will go to cout because that is the default.
+    dlog << LINFO << "This is an informational message.";
+
+    // now print a debug message.
+    int variable = 8;
+    dlog << LDEBUG << "The integer variable is set to " << variable;
+
+    // the logger can be used pretty much like any ostream object.  But you have to give a logging
+    // level first.  But after that you can chain << operators like normal.
+    
+    if (variable > 4)
+        dlog << LWARN << "The variable is bigger than 4!  Its value is " << variable;
+
+
+
+    dlog << LINFO << "we are going to sleep for half a second.";
+    // sleep for half a second
+    dlib::sleep(500);
+    dlog << LINFO << "we just woke up";
+
+
+
+    dlog << LINFO << "program ending";
+}
+
+
+