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Beginner Joined: 24 Mar 2009 Posts: 13

Apologies if this is answered already but I've been searching and can't figure it out.

I'd really like to enable (automatically at connect if possible!) HTML logging in CMUD so that it captures my sessions. If possible I'd like this file to output to a directory outside the installation file of CMUD, organized like, for example, C:\Logs\-Name of MUD-\date.html

I've looked and looked and looked and I can't find an explanation to even get it outputting at all (HTML or text) much less in the format I'd like.

If someone can explain this for me in the most stupid person terms possible I'd really appreciate it, because I can't get it working. Thanks!

Posted: Tue Mar 24, 2009 8:23 pm

Go to Options -> Session -> Logging and enable the Log HTML option.

You can make an onConnect event to start your logging. Something like this should do the trick.

Beginner Joined: 24 Mar 2009 Posts: 13

Sadly, I don't have an Options > Session menu; I have Options, then the closest thing is Session Properties, but there's nothing about Log HTML in the window or tabs that open up.

I'm using CMUD 2.37.

Beginner Joined: 24 Mar 2009 Posts: 13

Ah I figured it out somewhat;

Under Options > General >Session > Logging there were a few selections, so I checked Log ANSI Color, and Log MXP/HTML

The script you gave me said there's no onConnect command, but I got this to work with some fiddling:

#AL atconnect #LOG %concat("C:\Chatlogs\MUDs\", %time("yyyy-mm-dd"), ".html")

It said in the game on execute that:

Log is on: C:\Chatlogs\MUDs\2009-03-25.html

but when I go to that directory it's empty. Question

Beginner Joined: 24 Mar 2009 Posts: 13

Ah I got it!

#AL atconnect {#LOG %concat("C:\Chatlogs\MUDs\", %time("yyyy-mm-dd"), ".html")}

Works.

The only problem though is that it doesn't start this "atconnect" like I expect it to.

Posted: Tue Mar 24, 2009 9:26 pm

That "atconnect" was a special alias from zMUD days. These were replaced with #EVENTS that are much more powerful. onConnect is the system defined event that replaces the "atconnect" alias. If you click on the link you'll see the documentation for them.

Beginner Joined: 24 Mar 2009 Posts: 13

So it should be

#EV onConnect {#LOG %concat("C:\Chatlogs\MUDs\", %time("yyyy-mm-dd"), ".html")}

instead?

Posted: Tue Mar 24, 2009 10:10 pm

Yep... something like that should work. At work so I can't confirm it.

Beginner Joined: 24 Mar 2009 Posts: 13

Yay! That works. :D

Thanks so much for the help.

Beginner Joined: 24 Mar 2009 Posts: 13

Okay another question; these commands don't seem to save when I exit CMUD. I have to keep re-entering them each time when I restart or connect to another MUD.

Wizard Joined: 22 Mar 2007 Posts: 2320

Beginner Joined: 24 Mar 2009 Posts: 13

Beginner Joined: 24 Mar 2009 Posts: 13

Hm after saying this, I went through and think I fixed them; trying it several times by connecting to a session at CMUD startup, then pressing the Sessions button (instead of using the New Connection Window drop down) it appears to load the MUDs correctly, load the onConnect command correctly to log, and logs them into the correct directories. It's consistent after repeatedly closing and restarting CMUD.

Is this the way I should handle connecting to multiple MUDs in the same session, or is this still convoluted and likely to cause me problems?

Wizard Joined: 22 Mar 2007 Posts: 2320

Yes, that is one of several possible ways to connect to several different muds. When you were using "New Connection", you were creating a brand new blank session each time.

Beginner Joined: 24 Mar 2009 Posts: 13

Is there a preferred method? Now suddenly when I do that route, the second MUD tab gets messed up royally and I have to restart CMUD; right now I am actually running two complete instances of CMUD to get connected.

I feel like I broke something. :P

Wizard Joined: 22 Mar 2007 Posts: 2320

Are you trying to connect to multiple muds or characters at the same time, or are you trying to first do one, close it, and open a new mud?

If the former, I believe you should be able to open a session, and within that session do File|Open Session and open the next one. It will make various tabs across your Cmud window. If you want, you can dock the multiple windows together, arrange them the way you like, and click Layout|Save Session Layout. That will cause that layout to be saved, and the next time you open that first session, it will automatically open the windows for all the others too.

If the latter, what I usually do is to open and play in one session, then do File|Close Window to close it, and click on the next session I want.

Beginner Joined: 24 Mar 2009 Posts: 13

Yeah it's to run multiple muds at the same time. It looks like I got that working.

Question about logging, is there a way to enable timestamps (logging and display) somehow? Either in the system preferences or in that script?

Adept Joined: 04 May 2007 Posts: 292 Location: Boston

I bet if you try that from a script the lines wont flow smoothly, still I have never seen a way to interact with the log. You can open a file and time stamp events but doing a thing like that for each line received wouldn't work because there is the whole UI to consider, unless your mudding only involves monitoring.

You could print time stamps on events, my current mud has dawn and dusk events, then you could factor guesses.

Anyway, I haven't seen log functions like that ever.

Wizard Joined: 22 Mar 2007 Posts: 2320

Click on Options|General. In the Preferences window that pops up, click on Session|Logging. Mark the checkbox labeled "Log timestamps".

Adept Joined: 04 May 2007 Posts: 292 Location: Boston

oooo I feel so wrong, but really I had nothing better to do today

Beginner Joined: 24 Mar 2009 Posts: 13

Wizard Joined: 22 Mar 2007 Posts: 2320

First, be sure that you made that setting change in the correct window.

It is possible that timestamps won't go into the log unless you have the timestamps in the window--I haven't tried that. To get timestamps displayed in the window, be sure the correct window is the active window, and click on Options|General. In the Preferences window, click on Session|Scrollback. Mark the checkbox labeled "Show timestamps".

Beginner Joined: 24 Mar 2009 Posts: 13

Ah ha! That got it working; apparently the settings kept getting wiped each restart unless I hit "Save as Default," and now it all logs!

Yay, thank you so much for all your help.