Timestamp in Console

[Stese]

Hi all.

I was wondering if it is possible for the next release of RunUO, to have the console timestamp each line, and for this to be of a customisable format?

also it would be very useful to be able to force the client to save, restart and shutdown from the console, instead of logging in via a client.

Perhaps this could be done with a taskbar icon.

I have seen a similar request back from 22/4/2003, but nothing much came of it, so I thought I might post my own request.

thanks all.

[Phantom]

Originally Posted by Stese

Hi all.

I was wondering if it is possible for the next release of RunUO, to have the console timestamp each line, and for this to be of a customisable format?

also it would be very useful to be able to force the client to save, restart and shutdown from the console, instead of logging in via a client.

Perhaps this could be done with a taskbar icon.

I have seen a similar request back from 22/4/2003, but nothing much came of it, so I thought I might post my own request.

thanks all.

Looking forward to your submission

[Stese]

Immensely helpful phantom...

I wouldn't know where to start with coding this.

Since it is in the console, I would assume that it's written into the RunUO.exe file...

Meh i'll have a look, if I create something, i'll post it

[Atomic]

This is not my code, and I really don't remeber who made it but here it is. It stamps the time on each line of the console.

using System;
using System.IO;
using System.Text;

namespace System
{
	public class ConsoleHook : TextWriter
	{
		public override Encoding Encoding
		{
			get { return Encoding.ASCII; }
		}

		private string Timestamp
		{
			get { return String.Format( "{0:D2}/{1:D2}-{2:D2}:{3:D2} ",DateTime.Now.Day,DateTime.Now.Month,DateTime.Now.Hour,DateTime.Now.Minute ); }
		}

		private static Stream m_OldOutput;
		private static bool m_Newline;

		public static void Initialize()
		{
			m_OldOutput = Console.OpenStandardOutput();
			Console.SetOut( new ConsoleHook() );
			m_Newline = true;
		}

		public override void WriteLine( string value )
		{
			if ( m_Newline )
			{
				value = Timestamp + value;
			}

			byte[] data = Encoding.GetBytes( value );
			m_OldOutput.Write( data,0,data.Length );
			m_OldOutput.WriteByte( 10 );
			m_Newline = true;
		}

		public override void Write( string value )
		{
			if ( m_Newline )
			{
				value = Timestamp + value;
			}

			byte[] data = Encoding.GetBytes( value );
			m_OldOutput.Write( data,0,data.Length );
			m_Newline = false;
		}
	}
}

[Stese]

Ohh thankies!

[Phantom]

Originally Posted by Stese

Immensely helpful phantom...

I wouldn't know where to start with coding this.

Since it is in the console, I would assume that it's written into the RunUO.exe file...

Meh i'll have a look, if I create something, i'll post it

No reason you can't learn how to do it.

But my statment still is valid,

[thegrandmystic]

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[Stese]

Funny, I know that poster well... he's me!