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OK i know it is rude, mine first post and i ask for something, but mine eyes hurt reading operation reports and i m missing important messages so i will like to replace this standard OP report:

with something like this:

Now i know this is not hard to code, i can do it just tell me in which language you want it...
This what you see is just example i m sure we can make better groups and display format...

Have you tried using Witp Tracker yet? A tool designed by a player and it generates an " alerts" page that covers the ops reports. Of course, it doesnt create the op report exactly as you are requesting but it does sort each report into the various types. Also, it has many, many, other useful reports/pages for easing your gameplay.

You should have a look!

https://sites.google.com/site/witptracker/

ORIGINAL: urtel


Now i know this is not hard to code, i can do it just tell me in which language you want it...
This what you see is just example i m sure we can make better groups and display format...

Messages are written out to the logs as they occur. Not to an array for later writing to the log.

I would use Combat Reporter for this. You can find it here tm.asp?m=2456864

ORIGINAL: michaelm

ORIGINAL: urtel


Now i know this is not hard to code, i can do it just tell me in which language you want it...
This what you see is just example i m sure we can make better groups and display format...

Messages are written out to the logs as they occur. Not to an array for later writing to the log.

That is ok, but if i m right code work like this :

...
every event put line in aoperationsreport.txt
when turn is done and player click show op report, it just print lines from file to screen
...

what i (or you) can do at point when user click show op report is first call new procedure parseOPRep(filename) then continue to show lines from file..
Procedure parseOPRep - will load rep file check is it already parsed(mark inside file) and if it is not then rearrange lines inside log and save it back...parsing is pretty simple...only thing to be watch is not to affect already existing tools with really on file in they job, so new added lines(msg groups) need to be original strings which can't be mistaken to be part of original file...
which again can be done by simple standard in group naming on example group lines can have 3 letter notations like *****RecRep, *****SubRep, *****AirTraRep which i m pretty sure not exists in original messages and any tool which already use report files will not be affected by this change..

I think this feature is wort of 1 day effort, i know michaelm is busy with much more important things so i will program that procedure(unit) if there is enough people who think that will bee good feature to have?

PS
Yes i m aware of tools outside game which can already do something similar, but for me to play USA side you do not need anything beside game so it will be nice to have this little thing inside game, off course i m just noob here so no need to get upset if i m doing something wrong
If you play Japan then you have no chose but to bring heavy artillery - WITP TRACKER!

Combat Reporter isn't really what you call "heavy artillery", but does exactly what you want