{
    
    // setup the logging
    TextPanelAppender tpa = new TextPanelAppender(new PatternLayout("%-5p %d [%t]:  %m%n"), "logTextPanel");
    tpa.setThreshold(Priority.DEBUG);
    Category cat = Category.getInstance(catName);
    cat.addAppender(tpa);
    LogFrame frame = new LogFrame(tpa);
    frame.validate();
    //Center the frame (window), and show it
    Dimension screenSize = Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit().getScreenSize();
    Dimension frameSize = frame.getSize();
    if (frameSize.height  > screenSize.height) {
      frameSize.height = screenSize.height;
    }
    if (frameSize.width  > screenSize.width) {
      frameSize.width = screenSize.width;
    }
    frame.setLocation((screenSize.width - frameSize.width) / 2, (screenSize.height - frameSize.height) / 2);
    frame.setVisible(true);
}