diff --git a/SimpleTests/MeshTests/CollapseMeshNodes.cpp b/SimpleTests/MeshTests/CollapseMeshNodes.cpp
index ee44736e2088a4aa288366480f328231f6cb9542..8145e97dde8f0be64c1e49f5a188bf4d134eace1 100644
--- a/SimpleTests/MeshTests/CollapseMeshNodes.cpp
+++ b/SimpleTests/MeshTests/CollapseMeshNodes.cpp
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@
 #include "MemWatch.h"
 #include "RunTime.h"
 #include "tclap/CmdLine.h"
+#include "LogogSimpleFormatter.h"
 
 // BaseLib/logog
 #include "logog.hpp"
@@ -24,23 +25,10 @@
 #include "Legacy/MeshIO.h"
 #include "MeshCoarsener.h"
 
-
-/**
- * new formatter for logog
- */
-class FormatterCustom : public logog::FormatterGCC
-{
-    virtual TOPIC_FLAGS GetTopicFlags( const logog::Topic &topic )
-    {
-        return ( Formatter::GetTopicFlags( topic ) &
-                 ~( TOPIC_FILE_NAME_FLAG | TOPIC_LINE_NUMBER_FLAG ));
-    }
-};
-
 int main(int argc, char *argv[])
 {
 	LOGOG_INITIALIZE();
-	FormatterCustom *custom_format (new FormatterCustom);
+	BaseLib::LogogSimpleFormatter *custom_format (new BaseLib::LogogSimpleFormatter);
 	logog::Cout *logogCout(new logog::Cout);
 	logogCout->SetFormatter(*custom_format);
 
diff --git a/SimpleTests/MeshTests/MeshSearchTest.cpp b/SimpleTests/MeshTests/MeshSearchTest.cpp
index e8b7f7066e112290f5e889df77028f068a39f076..c70c22f042c95fdab8d874569540445c9edc1c02 100644
--- a/SimpleTests/MeshTests/MeshSearchTest.cpp
+++ b/SimpleTests/MeshTests/MeshSearchTest.cpp
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@
 #include "MemWatch.h"
 #include "RunTime.h"
 #include "tclap/CmdLine.h"
+#include "LogogSimpleFormatter.h"
 
 // BaseLib/logog
 #include "logog.hpp"
@@ -26,18 +27,6 @@
 #include "Mesh.h"
 #include "Legacy/MeshIO.h"
 
-/**
- * new formatter for logog
- */
-class FormatterCustom : public logog::FormatterGCC
-{
-    virtual TOPIC_FLAGS GetTopicFlags( const logog::Topic &topic )
-    {
-        return ( Formatter::GetTopicFlags( topic ) &
-                 ~( TOPIC_FILE_NAME_FLAG | TOPIC_LINE_NUMBER_FLAG ));
-    }
-};
-
 void testMeshGridAlgorithm(MeshLib::Mesh const*const mesh,
 				std::vector<GeoLib::Point*>& pnts_for_search,
 				std::vector<size_t> &idx_found_nodes, bool contiguous)
@@ -106,7 +95,7 @@ int main(int argc, char *argv[])
 {
 	LOGOG_INITIALIZE();
 	logog::Cout* logog_cout (new logog::Cout);
-	FormatterCustom *custom_format (new FormatterCustom);
+	BaseLib::LogogSimpleFormatter *custom_format (new BaseLib::LogogSimpleFormatter);
 	logog_cout->SetFormatter(*custom_format);
 
 	TCLAP::CmdLine cmd("Simple mesh search test", ' ', "0.1");