Write to DS window?

[madrussian 347]

Hi all, I looked and hopefully just missed this somehow.

Is it possible to write a line of text to the small Dedicated Server window?  (Not write to rpt file or any logs, instead write to that little DS window itself.  Like where it says "Rune connected.", "Mission read.", "Game started.", etc)

 

I'd like to add a "% done" or something like that to my terrain scanner.  Thanks!

[JCataclisma 80]

Providing the upper right corner messages come (by default) with "hint"/"hintSilent", I think what you want is to use "systemChat" instead. But that inGame, of course, so I don't know if I understood you correctly. 😕
Try and take a look if that's what you need:

https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/systemChat

[madrussian 347]

Thanks, yeah unfortunately it seems systemChat does not write to the Dedicated Server window.  I have a constant stream of systemChat going on in my mission (already), and don't see any of that on my DS window.  I was wondering though if a different chat command or similar does though?

[_foley 192]

Have you tried diag_log yet? It dumps message to the RPT log file though I don't remember whether it also goes to the DS window.

Keep in mind there is a slight performance impact as it's a file operation. If there are many log messages times per second then it might be beneficial to accumulate a longer string in the script and dump it to file every once in a while.

[mrcurry 508]

22 hours ago, madrussian said:

Hi all, I looked and hopefully just missed this somehow.

Is it possible to write a line of text to the small Dedicated Server window?  (Not write to rpt file or any logs, instead write to that little DS window itself.  Like where it says "Rune connected.", "Mission read.", "Game started.", etc)

 

I'd like to add a "% done" or something like that to my terrain scanner.  Thanks!

No, and just to rub it in we have debugLog which from the biki sounds like it could do it, if piped correctly, but it's ofc non-functional in the retail...

[madrussian 347]

Thanks guys.  Dang, oh well maybe I'll rig something up.  I've running ~10 DSs in parallel, all launched from batch files.  And my scanner uses callExtension already (to create the scan files), so maybe I can pipe some "progress" feed to the consoles the batches make.