MultiTextWriter - RunUO

Ohms_Law · 07-06-2007, 08:48 AM

One simple question: Why?

...is this a leftover from the .NET 1.0 timeframe or something? That's the only logical explaination that I can come up with...
The current Console class seems fine for writing text to the console to me. So, I'm just curious as to why the MultiTextWriter class exists in RunUO still.

**Jeff** · 07-06-2007, 12:30 PM

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Originally Posted by Ohms_Law

One simple question: Why?

...is this a leftover from the .NET 1.0 timeframe or something? That's the only logical explaination that I can come up with...
The current Console class seems fine for writing text to the console to me. So, I'm just curious as to why the MultiTextWriter class exists in RunUO still.

So you can write the console to logs, and remote admin, and if need be output to something else, IE Windows Forms.

**Zippy** · 07-06-2007, 06:24 PM

Jeff's correct. This is part of remote administration... it allows output going to the console to be redirected to multiple places at once... Like writing to the console, to a log, and to a remote client all at the same time without using a special print command. You just use Console.Write() like normal.

Ohms_Law · 07-06-2007, 09:59 PM

ah, thanks! I completely overlooked that angle, but now that you guys have pointed that out I can see that in the constructor...
neat!

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Ohms_Law Forum Expert Join Date: Sep 2004 Age: 37 Posts: 1,006	MultiTextWriter One simple question: Why? ...is this a leftover from the .NET 1.0 timeframe or something? That's the only logical explaination that I can come up with... The current Console class seems fine for writing text to the console to me. So, I'm just curious as to why the MultiTextWriter class exists in RunUO still.

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Zippy Administrator Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Baltimore, MD Age: 25 Posts: 4,870	Jeff's correct. This is part of remote administration... it allows output going to the console to be redirected to multiple places at once... Like writing to the console, to a log, and to a remote client all at the same time without using a special print command. You just use Console.Write() like normal. __________________ Zippy, Razor Creator and RunUO Core Developer The RunUO Software Team "Intuition, like a flash of lightning, lasts only for a second. It generally comes when one is tormented by a difficult decipherment and when one reviews in his mind the fruitless experiments already tried. Suddenly the light breaks through and one finds after a few minutes what previous days of labor were unable to reveal." ~The Cryptonomicon

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07-06-2007, 09:59 PM	#4 (permalink)
Ohms_Law Forum Expert Join Date: Sep 2004 Age: 37 Posts: 1,006	ah, thanks! I completely overlooked that angle, but now that you guys have pointed that out I can see that in the constructor... neat!

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