Hi all!
This is a short post to show you an small InSim program to export all ingame chat messages outside the game. It's simple, connect the program, read the cache file and printf()!
You can see the result in my team's page (bottom page): http://mch.lfsteam.es/forum
You need Pyinsim >= 1.6.3 . This is a simple adaptation from the author's examples.
The format of the cache file is a line per message, in the form:
You can parse it with PHP with something like:
In my case, I use phpBB to show the messages, but you can use any system that you like.
Yes, my english is bad... sorry. And yes, I'm bored... I'm looking for ideas to make something more usefull with InSim, any suggestion?
This is a short post to show you an small InSim program to export all ingame chat messages outside the game. It's simple, connect the program, read the cache file and printf()!
You can see the result in my team's page (bottom page): http://mch.lfsteam.es/forum
You need Pyinsim >= 1.6.3 . This is a simple adaptation from the author's examples.
import sys
import os
import time
VERSION = '1.6.3'
try:
import pyinsim
if not pyinsim.version(VERSION):
raise ImportError
except ImportError:
print 'You must install pyinsim %s or better' % VERSION
sys.exit(1)
HEARTBEAT_INTERVAL = 10
PATH_CACHE = './cache.txt'
insim = pyinsim.InSim()
insim.message_cache = []
def heartbeat(insim):
save_cache(insim)
insim.timer(heartbeat, HEARTBEAT_INTERVAL)
def load_cache(insim):
if not os.path.isfile(PATH_CACHE):
open(PATH_CACHE, 'a').close()
p = open(PATH_CACHE, 'r')
lines = p.readlines()
for line in lines:
if len(line.strip()) > 0:
insim.message_cache.append(line.strip())
p.close()
def save_cache(insim):
lines = insim.message_cache[-100:]
p = open(PATH_CACHE, 'w')
for line in lines:
p.write("%s\n" % line.strip().replace("\r", "").replace("\n", ""))
p.close()
def message_out(insim, mso):
insim.message_cache.append(str(int(time.time())) +";"+ mso.Msg.strip())
if __name__ == '__main__':
try:
insim.bind(pyinsim.ISP_MSO, message_out)
insim.init('localhost', 29999, Admin='admin', IName='logexport', Flags=pyinsim.ISF_MSO_COLS, Interval=500)
insim.timer(load_cache, 1)
insim.timer(heartbeat, HEARTBEAT_INTERVAL)
except pyinsim.InSimError as err:
print 'InSim Error:', err
sys.exit(1)
except:
print 'Unexpected error:', sys.exc_info()[0]
sys.exit(1)The format of the cache file is a line per message, in the form:
timestamp;messageYou can parse it with PHP with something like:
<?php
$logexport_lines = file("cache.txt");
foreach ($logexport_lines as $logexport_line) {
list($timestamp, $message) = split(";", $logexport_line, 2);
// do something here
}
?>
Yes, my english is bad... sorry. And yes, I'm bored... I'm looking for ideas to make something more usefull with InSim, any suggestion?
