Is it possible that when you run a game in the player you can output all commands typed to a log file. (txt file).

This would be very useful as if someone is playing your game and they stumble upon an error you can look at the logfiile and see what commands they have typed.

Very useful for trapping bugs as you can retype what they have typed into the player and check for errors.

Kind Regards

Stants.

Hi,

To turn on log.txt transcript recording there's an option on the Player MenuBar under the "Adventure" menu which prompts for name of a textfile.
Similarly there's an option to turn it off.

(if not using a menubar there are "transcripton" and "transcriptoff" action commands whcih do the same thing)

A useful feature is if an input command begins with "rem:" any following text is NOT PROCESSED by TAB. However that text will be printed in any transcript text file. (if "transcript" is turned on)
Useful in playtesting games to highlight game anomalies in a transcript for reporting to game author eg:

>rem: something not right here with location exit!!!

>rem: cannot get the rope here!

Regards,
Phil.

Ok ive sent a game to my friend whos testing it for bugs.

The game is running with menus disabled.

How can i turn on transcript.

I type transcripton but ti doesnt regognise it as a verb and if i put /transcripton/ as a verb it doesnt understand which makes sense.

I know if i enable menus there is an option to turn transcripting on.

But how do you turn it on if menus are disabled.

Thanks again for your help phil.

Ok. I hadn't realised you had menu disabled. In that case you must use the action commands instead.

You need to enter a vocabulary verb with any synonyms:

/transcript/script/

And you will need to check that you still have "on" and "off" in the vocabulary preposition list.

This is the code needed into the RESPONSE table:

=============
[start]transcript on[acts]transcripton[end]

[start]transcript off[acts]transcriptoff[end]

==============

Player must now type

>transcript on

>transcript off

to activate this feature.

As a result of this I've entered these entries into the "default.tab" database for the next release.

Thanks,
Phil.