Long time Vassal user, first post in a while here. I use Vassal mostly for Commands & Colors PBEM games. I teach Vassal and the games to a lot of people. In each game, we send back a logfile for the current player’s turn. I was asked by my latest “student” if it is possible to combine all the logfiles into a single file once we are done. That way he can play through the whole game without having to open up 30 or 40 different files.
Is there a simple way to do this?
I don’t believe there is any way to do this - however I was having the same
thought for my current Afrika Korps games.
The right approach is probably to have a meta-file structure in which a
number of log files are collected in order, so that one could still jump
into the middle of a game by turn. I see it as really just a management
issue, of collecting the files in order and simply asking the user a
Continue, Yes or No? question as each file ends.
Thoughts anyone?
Pieter
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Long time Vassal user, first post in a while here. I use Vassal mostly
for Commands & Colors PBEM games. I teach Vassal and the games to a
lot of people. In each game, we send back a logfile for the current
player’s turn. I was asked by my latest “student” if it is possible to
combine all the logfiles into a single file once we are done. That way
he can play through the whole game without having to open up 30 or 40
different files.
Is there a simple way to do this?
Read this topic online here:
https://forum.vassalengine.org/t/stringing-together-logfiles/3668/1
Thus spake pgeerkens:
I don’t believe there is any way to do this - however I was having the same
thought for my current Afrika Korps games.The right approach is probably to have a meta-file structure in which a
number of log files are collected in order, so that one could still jump
into the middle of a game by turn. I see it as really just a management
issue, of collecting the files in order and simply asking the user a
Continue, Yes or No? question as each file ends.Thoughts anyone?
Pieter
This is already planned for 3.3 (and has been for some time). There’s an
RFE for completely overhauling logging, but I don’t have the issue number
handy right now.
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J.
Am I understanding correctly that you still need to create a new logfile and open each file individually and “re-record” it? This was my initial thought but did not think it would save any time.
Or does “Load Continuation” piece them all together? Unfortunately, I am at work where I do not have Vassal loaded (nor do I have the logfiles) to play with it right now.
What I was hoping was something like Adobe Acrobat where you could put a bunch of “pages” together to form one “binder” without having to go through the play by play of each logfile.
No theres nothing that stitches them together like a pdf (That is what Peter and Joel are talking about kind of).
Right now the current system I linked to is the only method how right now. I too am unsure exactly how to do it because I dont pbem -but it has been explained though precisely on BGG and CSW how to do it, you’ll have to search. I do know you can make it go real fast by instead of mouse clicking through each move step by step just hold a pencil down on the step through hotkey - will whiz through a logfile in a few seconds, load your next one and continue etc… shouldn’t take more than 5-10 mins once you know how
OK, we’ll just do it that way.