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Wizard Joined: 26 Mar 2008 Posts: 1547

So, I have it set to log in Ansi color for my CMUD. However, this may be useless and ruining my logs because Charbal won't convert it. I was told the plug in wouldn't work with CMUD, but that the stand alone converter would. However, I get "Error 13 while trying to convert log file: type mismatch", it then finished and gives me the first few lines which also have some strange characters in front of them, and then nothing else. Am I doing something wrong?

SubAdmin Joined: 18 Nov 2001 Posts: 5182

It doesn't sound like you are doing anything wrong. Charbal original wrote the HTML loggin plugin for zMud because he desired that capability. He also wrote the conversion so that existing logs could easily be used. He hasn't been around in quite some time and I rather miss him.

There was a bug with the ANSI logging at some point that caused it to include the internal style codes in the log. I don't actually see anything in the version history to indicate that it was fixed. I am guessing that Charbal didn't include handling for bad sequences when he wrote the conversion program.

CMud actually provides an easy way to do the conversion. Use the Editor window (CTRL-SHIFT-ENTER) to open the log as an Ansi file. This will read the file with all the colors correctly. Then select Save as from the editor window's menu, and set the type to HTML.

Posted: Sat Apr 05, 2008 8:42 pm

I've just bought a new computer and haven't gotten round to getting Charbal's to work yet (have to install buttloads of .ocx files as I remember), so I can't help there.

You can open ANSI logs with the editor, though, and then save them to HTML. Just choose the ANSI file type when you open them and the HTML type when you save them.

Wizard Joined: 26 Mar 2008 Posts: 1547

Thanks. It didn't seem to log the default color (silver correctly) it logged it black and didn't keep the black background, Luckily I know html, but is there a way to avoid this pain in the future?

SubAdmin Joined: 18 Nov 2001 Posts: 5182

I don't think there is anything you can do to avoid it other then not making HTML logs. You might get some play by changing the default color, but I doubt it would help.

HTML logging was something that was discussed many times, and likely is still on the wish list. I would suggest using the feedback option in Cmud to request it. The more something is reqested the higher a priority it is for Zugg.

Posted: Sat Apr 05, 2008 11:32 pm

You can change the background colour and the text colour the editor uses, which'll hopefully be saved out. I haven't tested that yet.

Trouble with this is that the <ESC>[0S codes that CMUD uses for styles (command colour, default text colour, etc) are lost somewhere - either when the ANSI log is created or when the editor saves its HTML, so you'll end up with commands being the wrong colour and stuff like that.

Wizard Joined: 26 Mar 2008 Posts: 1547

I changed it manually, it's just a pain. Also, the html is extremely messy and hard to edit.

Posted: Sun Apr 06, 2008 1:55 am

So suggest some improvements :)

Wizard Joined: 26 Mar 2008 Posts: 1547

I just did, using the feedback system. I think it could look much neater and be easier to edit with CSS used.