Easy Chat Log Formatting Tool

**Procurator** · 02/12/2007 10:50:48

Been to a faction or organisation meeting? Witnessed a serious conflict? Want to tell your friends about it, but don't want to give them a bunch of screenshots or horrible log files? Then this is the tool for you!

http://www.glitchsociety.com/format-logs/

1. Take your evil looking MxO log file (located at <game directory>/Profiles/<your account>/chat.log SMILEY

;
2. Grab the lines you need;
3. Paste them into the form linked to above;
4. Set the options if you need to (instructions are at the bottom of the page);
5. Hit Format;
6. Copy the code that appears and paste it wherever you want!

There are all sorts of options available:

- Choose from botched HTML (for these very forums), good X/HTML (for Web pages) or typical BBcode (for simpler forums like phpBB);
- Choose to filter out any channel you want (like secret faction chat or /tells);
- Colour the names of important people (or colour their entire messages);
- Format [System] messages to look like *action sequences*;
- Make MxO-chat formatting ({i}, {b} and {c:######} tags) visible wherever you post the logs.

Make the Data Node 1 forums presentable: format your logs!

(Just make sure you actually log the meetings/events you're attending: use the /logstart command in-game or hit Alt+L.)

Obviously I'm open to suggestions to improve the tool, but I'm rather busy finishing off the rest of the faction Web site.

**DeathBlade**

/twothumbsup

nice!! this will save alot of time going throught loooong streams of logs taking out what you dont want.

nice one proc

*votes for mods/devs/whoever to sticky*

**Cpt_Leelia**

Awesome Proc. Need to test it soon.

Oh and D3ath...

D3athBlad3 wrote:
*votes for mods/devs/whoever to sticky*

Dream on... this is Syntax. SMILEY

**DeathBlade**

One can always be hopefull...

*goes into a daydream state*

**d4sh**

Great tool! Very nice work.

Pyraci · 04/05/2006 14:34:28

As Krytical would say...

*image courtesy of Krytical :smileytongue:

Message Edited by Pyraci on 04-05-200603:34 PM

**Procurator**

Triple-Agent pwnage! That's what makes it all worthwhile. SMILEY

**Procurator**

Due to a problem with our domain name, you can currently access the chat log formatter here:

http://tgs.greyfusion.net/format-logs/

**Procurator**

I've created a stand-alone version of the formatting tool which you can install on your own site (either for convenience or because you don't trust the one on the Glitch Society Web site SMILEY

).

Please send me an e-mail asking for it. You'll find the link here:

http://www.glitchsociety.com/format-logs/

**Procurator**

Update

As of Update 45, outbound /tells are labelled as [TellSent]. The log formatter now takes advantage of this and correctly prefixes those /tells with 'To'. Older /tells are still subject to some ambiguity as to their origins - this cannot be remedied.

You can now enter the name of the person taking the log (probably you). This will allow the newer outbound /tells to be coloured using the sender's colour settings, rather than the recipient's.

Fixed a bug where LET names with whitespace at the end did not get colour applied them properly.

Fixed a bug whereby empty [System] messages would be left in.

**Procurator**

Just some light, friendly bumpage to make sure people know the tool is still here. SMILEY

http://www.glitchsociety.com/format-logs/

**Procurator**

/bump
/begforsticky

birmingham

Cpt_Leelia wrote:

Awesome Proc. Need to test it soon.

Oh and D3ath...

D3athBlad3 wrote:
*votes for mods/devs/whoever to sticky*

Dream on... this is Syntax.

they'll probably be to busy finding drama on vector * runs back to vector*

**Procurator**

The log formatter: for all your ugly forum needs. SMILEY

(Disclaimer: Procurator's log formatting tool will not make the DN1 forums look nice. That's a physical impossibility.)

**Kemy**

Why isn't this stickied yet?
Best chatlog tool ever!