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Console color tags introduce garbage into console.log file

by Richard Ranft · in Torque 3D Professional · 08/17/2011 (3:26 pm) · 3 replies

[code]
echo("\c4WeaponImage::onFire( WeaponImage:"@%this.getName()@", Client:"@%obj.client.nameBase@", Slot:"@%slot@" )");
echo("\c4WeaponImage::onFire - SourceObject:"@%obj@", SourceObject Client:"@%obj.client);
[\code]

drops

[code]
WeaponImage::onFire( WeaponImage:RocketLauncherImage, Client:Player9, Slot:0 )
WeaponImage::onFire - SourceObject:4449, SourceObject Client:4420
[\code]

into the log file. Um, in Notepad it is a pipe ( | ) character.

When I remove the color tags the | is no longer added in the log. In the console the text is colored as expected.
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    Torque Owner Richard Ranft
    Roostertail Games
    #1
    08/17/2011 (3:29 pm)
    Ok, MarkupLite doesn't like this post....

    Torque Owner Nathan Martin
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    #2
    08/17/2011 (3:44 pm)
    That is because all raw text data passed to the logging functions will be saved into the console.log file. When you use \c# in a string in torqueScript it generates an ASCII control character plus one of the value and the GFXDrawUtil::drawTextN() function will look for those control characters to change the output text foreground color to the color array fontColors[#] declared in the associated control profile.

    Torque Owner Richard Ranft
    Roostertail Games
    #3
    08/17/2011 (4:08 pm)
    Yeah, but they should strip it out when sending it anywhere but the console. It would be better, because who knows where else stuff like this isn't stripped when it should be.