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Hi,

Would it be possible to add an 'append' option to the elog.exe client program? I would like to be able to write a simple script for adding images into a logbook - i.e. right-click in Windows and click 'add to log', or click a button in LabVIEW or Matlab and have an image immediately added to the last log entry. There would also have to be an option to either return a list of entry IDs, or just append to the last entry. Is this possible/likely?

Unfortunately it is not simple under Windows to extend the right-click functionality. What I do is to use a snapshot program (like HoverSnap). Triggered with a definable hot key, it grabs a region of the screen and puts it into a GIF file. Then you can attach it to an elog. I agree it takes a couple of clicks, but it's still a quick thing.

1964

Tue Oct 10 09:00:08 2006

Re: Turn off smileys?

Ben Shepherd wrote:

Can we please have an option to turn off the thing that changes smileys automatically into
pictures?

Two ways:

Submit your entry in plain mode (insted of ELCode)
Put a \ in front of anything which is turned into a smiley, so ;) gets converted into , but \;) does not get converted

1966

Tue Oct 10 11:27:30 2006

Re: Turn off smileys?

Ben Shepherd wrote:

Stefan Ritt wrote:

Submit your entry in plain mode (insted of ELCode)
Put a \ in front of anything which is turned into a smiley, so ;) gets converted into , but \;) does not get converted

I realise that's possible, but things are getting converted into smileys that aren't intended to be smileys. Specifically, when I enter a question in brackets, the end bracket is converted into a smiley. (Like this?) should be (Like this\?). That is very annoying, and to be honest, I don't need the smileys. An option to switch them off would be the best thing.

I agree that the ?) smiley is annoying, so I changed it to ?-) which should prevent it from showing up in questions in brackets. I updated this server (you can see the effect above), the modification is committed to subversion.

1969

Tue Oct 10 11:45:22 2006

Re: Turn off smileys?

Ben Shepherd wrote:

Stefan Ritt wrote:

Thanks a lot! I'm going to pester you though - it would be really good if there was an option to turn them off completely. Surely it can't be a huge amount of work... ?

It's not the amount of work, it the intention to minimize the number of options. If you want a switch for the smileys, the next one wants a switch for automatic hot-linking (like http://...), the next one wants that only certain ELCode options are interpreted, not others, and then we will have a mess. By changing the ?-) definition I hope I have solved most cases without another flag. So either one has the comple ELCode set, or non. In the past I had many suggestions of new flags, which I could solve somehow otherwise. If I would not have done that, the manual would be twice as long by now...

1970

Tue Oct 10 11:47:41 2006

Re: Append option for elog.exe

Ben Shepherd wrote:

I think you misunderstand me. I was asking whether it would be possible for the elog command-line client program to have an "append to existing entry" option.

The elog command-line program has a -e switch to edit existing entries, but you need to know the ID of the entry.

1973

Tue Oct 10 16:09:12 2006

Re: 'Inline' button for attachments

Ben Shepherd wrote:

Hi,

It would be good if when you uploaded an image as an attachment, there was a button next to it that pasted the code

[img]elog:1972/1[/img]

into the log entry. This way, it would be more easy to have inline images in a log entry.

Just hit that button:

and it does exactly what you want.

1978

Wed Oct 11 08:18:14 2006

Re: SVN1723 (was SVN1714) will not run in 'daemon" mode on Solaris8

Steve Jones wrote:

There are also strange system calls that differ, and I thought it might be due to the setuid(60001) -nobody- but the the non-daemn mode also sets to nobody and works fine.

The elogd program opens the port (which might be below 1024 and thus needs privileges), then either become daemon or not, then changes to the user and group specified in elogd.cfg. So this behaviour should be the same on both cases.

Steve Jones wrote:

I just compiled SVN1723 and tried the generic elogd.cfg -- of course *that works!*. Something in my complex config that causes elog to barf when it is attempting to fork the daemon process.

That's a good starting point. Take your config file, strip one option after the other, and see which is the offending one. This helps us tracking down the problem.

Steve Jones wrote:

I have no idea what "/var/run/syslog_door" is.

I have not either. But one thing which is different in the daemon mode that all output is redirected to the syslog facility via the function call redirect_to_syslog();. This routine was not written by myself so I don't know 100% what it's doing, just under Linux it works fine. Try to outcomment this function and try again.

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