Re: LSX Command > Add text to file

Try this:

1. Save that code to some file, ie $ThemeDir$tracker.lua
2. Edit that OUTFILE, you best use a absolute path like 'c:\\blah.txt' or  
'c:/blah.txt' (windows does not care). If you use a relative path ( just  
'blah.txt' ) it is relative to your LitestepDir.
2. Edit your theme.rc file
	- add `*NetLoadModule lslua-0.6.5 load lslua`
	- add `*Luafile "$ThemeDir$tracker.lua"`
3. Recycle
4. Run !Tracker client > text

That should do it.

Ah yeah, uncomment ( remove the -- ) before `lslua.message_box("An Error  
occured: ".. msg, "Error!" ) and you'll see a more or less helpfull error  
message if something goes wrong.

On Tue, 11 Dec 2007 20:45:00 +0100, Ace McKool <face7hill@...> wrote:

> Thanks for this!  This is my first time with Lua, so I have a few  
> follow-up
> questions:
>
> 1.  Do I need any of the Lua packages to run this?  e.g. textedit?
> 2.  How do I confirm the path to the blah.txt file?  I tried:
>
> OUTFILE = 'c:\\blah.txt"
>
> but that didn't seem to work.  Thank you very much for this though, looks
> pretty cool.
>
>
>
>
> On Dec 11, 2007 6:32 AM, Jochen Ritzel <THC_rulez@...> wrote:
>
>> Some Lua:
>> [code, copy to some file and *luascriptfile it]
>> -- config this.
>> local clienttracker = {
>>     OUTFILE = 'blah.txt',
>>     -- if you want some formatting, you can set that here
>>     INFORMAT = '%s*([^>]*) > (.*)%s*', -- the input string is parsed  
>> with
>> this pattern
>>     OUTFORMAT = '%s | %s',          -- and formatted with this pattern
>> afterwards ... you could add tabs ( \t ) here ...
>>     TIMESTAMP = true,
>>     TIMEFORMAT = '%c', --see
>> http://www.thinkage.ca/english/gcos/expl/c/lib/strfti.html
>>     ERROR = function(self, msg )     -- if an error occures, it is
>> reported with this function
>>         lslua.message_box("An Error occured: ".. msg, "Error!" )
>>         --print( "An Error occured:", msg )
>>     end
>> }
>>
>> -- admire this.
>> function clienttracker:_format( client, text )
>>     local s = self.OUTFORMAT:format( client, text)
>>     if self.TIMESTAMP then
>>         return ('%s: %s\n'):format( os.date( self.TIMEFORMAT), s )
>>     else
>>         return s
>>     end
>> end
>> function clienttracker:parse( s )
>>     local ok, client, text = pcall( string.match, s, self.INFORMAT )
>>     if not ok then return self:ERROR( client ) end
>>     ok, text = pcall( self.add, self, client, text )
>>     if not ok then return self:ERROR( text ) end
>> end
>> function clienttracker:add( client, text )
>>         local fp = io.open(self.OUTFILE, "a")
>>         fp:write( self:_format( client, text ) )
>>         fp:close()
>> end
>>
>> -- rename this.
>> function bang_tracker( s )
>>     return clienttracker:parse( s )
>> end
>> [/code]
>>
>> Usage:
>> !tracker "You > I wrote you some code."
>>
>> Should be very easy to understand and expand ... hf
>>
>> --thc4k
>>
>>
>> On Mon, 10 Dec 2007 20:22:39 +0100, Ace McKool <face7hill@...>
>> wrote:
>>
>> > Hi Everyone,
>> >
>> > I'm trying to track my time at work.  I was hoping to use LSXCommand
>> > (plus
>> > any needed modules) to do something like:
>> >
>> > ?tracker "Some Client > I did this for them"
>> >
>> > And it would simply write the string to a file and add a timestamp if
>> > possible.
>> >
>> > Anybody have any recommendations on how to get this started?  Thanks!
>>
>>
>>
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