这可能是个微不足道的问题，不过其他人也应该遇到过。在Notes客户端用LotusScript的Print语句输出信息到状态栏时，如果多次调用传入的参数实际相同，状态栏只会显示该信息一次。例如：

Print "a"

Print "a"

Print "a"

不会输出三行a，而只有一行。如果作为参数的变量内容相同，多次调用也只会输出一次。例如：

Print view.Toplevelentrycount

Print view.Toplevelentrycount

Print view.Toplevelentrycount

你或许会问，即使这有些不正常，也没什么妨碍，重复输出有什么意义呢？原因如下。在客户端应用程序中，这些对Print的调用都是为了在程序运行时给用户（不论是普通用户还是开发者人员）信息和反馈。Print重复的静态信息的用例会出现在报告事件和处理进度时，例如在批量审批流程、处理附件、查找特定记录等等时，可以在发生或处理完一个事件后，调用这样的语句：Print"A purchase workflow is reviewed."，Print "A XXX record is found."。以上情况还可以通过在输出的信息中添加序列号来解决。而受这种输出丢失影响更大的则是Print的参数为变量的情况。尤其是在调试程序时，往往会在代码的不同处Print同一变量，以理解某些语句的效果或弄清错误的原因。这时应该的多行输出变为一行，令人困扰。当然可以人为添加一些注释使得每次输出都有差别，但很麻烦。

Print只在客户端运行的代码中，也就是输出到客户端状态栏时，有这种行为。包含它的代码运行在服务器端时，按触发方式或者输出到服务器控制台，或者返回给浏览器，都没有这个问题。所以这是Print语句的特性，抑或是Notes客户机状态栏的问题，似乎更有可能是后者。

这种行为是不是bug？或者是出于某些限制或考量有意设计如此？非计算机科班出身的我，想不出来，在网上也没有查到。不过我印象中Firefox的Firebug插件的控制台也曾有同样行为，用console.log()方法输出重复信息时，只会显示一条。后来有了改进，在输出信息的左边会在括号里标注重复输出的次数，例如（5）Show me again.

剩下的就是如何应对，即workaround。

首先容易想到的就是写一个函数包装Print，在实际要输出的信息前附上当前时间。除却我们的目的，显示输出信息的时间本身也是有益的。遗憾的是LotusScript里的日期时间类型Variant只精确到秒，如果重复信息的输出是在同一秒内，问题依旧。LotusScript可获得的最精确的当前时间是Timer函数的返回值，精确到百分之一秒。于是我们可以写出如下函数：

	Public Function PrintMsg(msg As Variant)
		Dim strTime As String
		strTime=Format(Now, "hh:mm:ss")
		Dim hs As Long 
		hs=Timer Mod 100
		strTime=strTime & ":" & hs
		Print(strTime & " - " & msg)
	End Function

但在应用时会发现，百分之一秒对于计算机和LotusScript仍然是很漫长的（这是件好事），所以在类似下面的代码中，输出的信息对于Print语句仍然是相同的，也就会发生丢失。

	call PrintMsg(view.Toplevelentrycount)
	Call CreateDoc(db)
	call PrintMsg(view.Toplevelentrycount)

Ticks per second：

Win2000 Domino 6.0 (ticks per second1000)

Win2000 Domino 5.0.9a (ticks per second1000)

AIX 4.3.3 ML 9 with Domino 5.0.11 (ticks per second = 1,000,000)

Solaris 8 with Domino 5.0.11 (ticks per second = 1,000,000)

SuSE Linux 8.1 with Domino 6.0.1 (ticks per second 1000)

SunOS 5.8 Generic_108528-18 with Domino Release 6.0.1; (ticks per second 1000)   

因此下面的代码演示了如何获得一段时间小于一秒的部分，并将它转化到毫秒单位。

dim tick1 as Long, tick2 as Long, tps as Long
tps=GetThreadInfo(7)
tick1=GetThreadInfo(6)
‘do something
tick2=GetThreadInfo(6)
dim dif as Long ‘The difference of the part of milliseconds 
dif=((tick2-tick1) Mod tps)/tps*1000

但是因为clock tick表示的是系统时钟自开机以来的时钟周期数，并不能由它直接确定当前时间，所以不能用在我们上面的函数以获得更高的时间精度。

为了彻底解决本文所说的问题，只有在每次输出前附上一个序列号。为此需要将PrintMsg函数包装在一个对象里，从而能够操作作为对象字段的序列号。

	Private printNum As Integer ‘Used for distinguish printing same contents
	Public Function PrintMsg(msg As Variant)
		Dim strTime As String
		strTime=Format(Now, "hh:mm:ss")
		Dim hs As Long 
		hs=Timer Mod 100
		strTime=strTime & ":" & hs
		printNum=printNum+1
		Print("[" & printNum & "]" & strTime & " - " & msg)
	End Function

调用它输出重复内容的效果如下：

[1]16:52:36:24 – 81

[2]16:52:36:24 - 81

[3]16:52:36:24 - 81

我把这个方法添加到以前曾介绍过的Log4Dom类里，当然诸位也可以单独为它创建一个更精简的类。

Class Log4Dom	
	public logLevel As Integer
	public module As String			‘module	
	‘the Log Destination, set as a variant then depending on the log type, 
	‘set as either a LogDB, logNotesFile, logStatus or logPrompt	
	Private logFile As Variant					
	
	Private s As NotesSession 
	Private db As NotesDatabase ‘current database
	Private profile As NotesDocument ‘Log4Dom profile document
	public logName As String ‘log name from the profile
	
	Private printNum As Integer ‘Used for distinguish printing same contents
	
	Sub New ()
		Set s=New NotesSession
		logLevel = LEVEL_DEBUG
	End Sub
	
	%REM
		Add a log destination.
		As the de facto only used log destination is Notes DB,
		I didn‘t handle the case of multiple log destinations of different types.
	%END REM
	Public Function AddLogFile(file As Variant)
		Set logFile = file
		
		If TypeName(file)="LOGDB" then
			‘read parameter from Log4Dom profile by starrow
			Set db=s.CurrentDatabase
			Set profile=db.GetProfileDocument("Log4DomProfile")
			If Not profile Is Nothing Then
				If profile.GetItemValue("LogLevel")(0)><"" then
					logLevel=profile.GetItemValue("LogLevel")(0)
				End if
				logName=profile.GetItemValue("LogName")(0)
			End If
			‘if no parameter provided, try the agent name
			If logName="" Then
				If Not s.CurrentAgent Is Nothing Then
					logName=s.CurrentAgent.Name
				End If
			End If
			
			logFile.LogName=logName	
		End if	
	End Function
	
	‘logging at the different levels, INFO, WARN etc
	Public Function Info(message As String) As Integer			
		Info = WriteLog(LEVEL_INFO, message)	
	End Function
	
	Public Function Warn(message As String) As Integer
		Warn = WriteLog(LEVEL_WARN, message)
	End Function
	
	Public Function Debug(message As String) As Integer
		Debug = WriteLog(LEVEL_DEBUG, message)	
	End Function
	
	‘Can‘t use error as the function name because it‘s a reserved word.
	‘If used for logging a runtime error, leave the argument as an empty string.	
	Public Function LogError(message As String) As Integer
		If message="" Then
			‘Generate the message for a runtime error.
			‘The GetThreadInfo(LSI_THREAD_CALLPROC) must be called here instead of 
			‘calling an universal function to get the error message because that would
			‘always return LogError as the function raising the error.  
			‘LSI_THREAD_CALLMODULE=11, LSI_THREAD_CALLPROC=10
			message = GetThreadInfo(11) & ">" & GetThreadInfo(10) & ": " & _
			"Error(" & Err() & "): " & Error() & " at line "& Erl()
		End If
		LogError = WriteLog(LEVEL_ERROR, message) 	
	End Function
	
	Public Function Fatal(message As String) As Integer
		Fatal = WriteLog(LEVEL_FATAL, message)		
	End Function
	
	‘user level logging, for specific level logging
	‘@param level integer - the level 10 is the most detail, 1 the lowest level
	‘message - a string to be logged. Number, boolean and date values would be
	‘automatically converted to strings by LotusScript. Other types should be manually converted.
	Public Function WriteLog(level As Integer, message As String) As Integer
		Dim theDate As String
		Dim theLevel As String
		Dim theMessage As String
		theDate = Cstr(Now)
		theLevel = "["+GetLevelString(level)+"] "		
		theMessage = theDate+" "+theLevel+" "+module+" - "+message
		‘ check that logging is turned on for this level
		‘ otherwise there is no need to log
		If level <= logLevel Then
			Call logFile.writelog(theMessage)
		End If
	End Function
	
	‘closes the log, saves notes doc or closes file
	Public Function Close
		logFile.close
	End Function
	
	
	‘convert from level numbers into string
	Private Function GetLevelString(level As Integer) As String
		Select Case level
			Case LEVEL_INFO : GetLevelString = LEVEL_INFO_STRING
			Case LEVEL_DEBUG : GetLevelString = LEVEL_DEBUG_STRING
			Case LEVEL_WARN : GetLevelString = LEVEL_WARN_STRING
			Case LEVEL_ERROR : GetLevelString = LEVEL_ERROR_STRING
			Case LEVEL_FATAL : GetLevelString = LEVEL_FATAL_STRING
			Case Else : GetLevelString = "LEVEL "+Cstr(level)
		End Select
	End Function
	
	%REM	
	        If the argument is the same, multiple calls to Print are executed only once.
		This function appends the current time before the message to be printed. The
		time is rounded to the nearest hundredth of second. However, for some circumstances,
		this is still not enough to avoid the same content to be printed. Thus, a serial
		number is appended.
	%END REM
	Public Function PrintMsg(msg As Variant)
		Dim strTime As String
		strTime=Format(Now, "hh:mm:ss")
		Dim hs As Long 
		hs=Timer Mod 100
		strTime=strTime & ":" & hs
		printNum=printNum+1
		Print("[" & printNum & "]" & strTime & " - " & msg)
	End Function
End Class
‘Get a logger instance that writes to the specified db.
Public Function GetLogger(db As NotesDatabase) As log4Dom
	Dim logger As log4dom
	Set logger = New log4dom()
	Dim logFile As New LogDB(db)
	Call logger.AddLogFile(logFile)	
	Set GetLogger=logger
End Function
Dim logger As Log4Dom
Set logger=GetLogger(Nothing)
call logger.PrintMsg(81)
call logger.PrintMsg(81)
call logger.PrintMsg(81)

82. Notes客户端Print相同信息到状态栏的问题