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Old 03-29-07, 10:28 PM   #5
Skweetis
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Just an Update on progress so far. The journaling is coming along slowly, and the code is growing exponentially. I've begun some preliminary formatting, and the out put file is now word-wrapped so it can be printed out.

Here is the same save file I used above, but with the updated formatting.

Code:
DATE      TIME  ENTRY
19411210  1100  Ship spotted, sir! Bearing 195! Short range!
                Ship spotted, sir! Bearing 103! Short range!
                Ship spotted, sir! Bearing 265! Medium range!
                Ship spotted, sir! Bearing 265! Long range!
                Ship spotted, sir! Bearing 200! Short range!
                Ship spotted, sir! Bearing 242! Medium range!
                Ship spotted, sir! Bearing 066! Short range!
                Ship spotted, sir! Bearing 075! Short range!
          1113  Ship spotted, sir! Bearing 307! Long range!
19411211  1115  RADIO TRAFFIC:
                >> From: ...
                >> To: ...
                >> THE JAPANESE HAVE SUNK 2 BRITISH BATTLESHIPS BY AIR IN THE SOUTH CHINA SEA X
                >> HMS REPULSE AND HMS PRINCE OF WALES ARE LOST X JAPANESE FORCES HAVE LANDED IN
                >> THE PHILIPPINES X
                
19411212  0056  Ship spotted, sir! Bearing 024! Long range!
          0224  RADIO TRAFFIC:
                >> From: COMSUBPAC
                >> To: USS Pollack
                >> Contact Reported. Enemy Task Force , Long 127° 53' E, Lat  28° 05' N , Course
                >> WSW, Speed 12 KTS!
                
          0912  RADIO TRAFFIC:
                >> From: ...
                >> To: ...
                >> GERMANY AND ITALY DECLARE WAR ON THE UNITED STATES X THE US CONGRESS WILL NOT
                >> BE OUTDONE AND DECLARES WAR ON GERMANY AND ITALY X JAPANESE FORCES HAVE BEEN
                >> TURNED BACK AT WAKE ISLAND X GOOD JOB BOYS X
                
          2102  RADIO TRAFFIC:
                >> 
                >> 
                >> On Thursday, December 11th, Germany and Italy have declared war against the
                >> United States. The European and the Southeast Asian wars have now become a
                >> global conflict between the Axis powers of Japanese Empire, Germany and Italy
                >> united against the United
                
19411214  0559  RADIO TRAFFIC:
                >> From: COMSUBPAC
                >> To: USS Pollack
                >> Contact Reported. Enemy Task Force , Long 118° 16' E, Lat  23° 47' N , Course
                >> SW, Speed 12 KTS!
                
          0901  RADIO TRAFFIC:
                >> From: COMSUBPAC
                >> To: USS Pollack
                >> ENGAGE ENEMY MERCHANT SHIPPING IN AREA CELEBES SEA
                
          1203  RADIO TRAFFIC:
                >> From: COMSUBPAC
                >> To: ...
                >> ALL CRAFT BE ADVISED JAPANESE INVASION OF BORNEO IMMINENT X REQUEST ASSISTANCE
                >> AND AID FROM PATROL CRAFT IN THE AREA X
                
19411215  0817  RADIO TRAFFIC:
                >> From: COMSUBPAC
                >> To: USS Pollack
                >> Contact Reported. Enemy Task Force , Long 114° 39' E, Lat  19° 57' N , Course
                >> SW, Speed 12 KTS!
                
          2357  RADIO TRAFFIC:
                >> From: COMSUBPAC
                >> To: USS Pollack
                >> Contact Reported. Enemy Task Force , Long 132° 39' E, Lat  30° 06' N , Course
                >> WSW, Speed 12 KTS!
                
19411216  0027  RADIO TRAFFIC:
                >> From: COMSUBPAC
                >> To: USS Pollack
                >> Contact Reported. Enemy Task Force , Long 115° 57' E, Lat  22° 29' N , Course
                >> WSW, Speed 12 KTS!
                
          0600  RADIO TRAFFIC:
                >> From: COMSUBPAC
                >> To: USS Pollack
                >> Contact Reported. Enemy Task Force , Long 133° 55' E, Lat  30° 45' N , Course
                >> WSW, Speed 12 KTS!
                
          0652  Ship spotted, sir! Bearing 282! Long range!
          0654  Ship spotted, sir! Bearing 269! Long range!
          0702  RADIO TRAFFIC:
                >> From: COMSUBPAC
                >> To: USS Pollack
                >> Contact Reported. Enemy Task Force , Long 115° 48' E, Lat   8° 16' N , Course
                >> NNE, Speed 11 KTS!
                
          0733  Ship spotted, sir! Bearing 041! Long range!
                Nearest visual contact at bearing 042, range 24606 ft!
                Ship spotted, sir! Bearing 045! Long range!
          0735  Dive to periscope depth
          0738  Sound contact, sir! Merchant Medium Speed Closing! Bearing 047! Long range!
          0739  Sound contact, sir! Merchant Medium Speed Closing! Bearing 041! Long range!
          0741  Rise to periscope depth
          0744  Rise to periscope depth
          0750  Firing tube 1, sir!
                Firing tube 2, sir!
                Torpedo in the water
                Firing tube 3, sir!
                Torpedo in the water
                Torpedo in the water
                Firing tube 4, sir!
                Torpedo in the water
                Torpedo impact
          0751  Torpedo impact
                Torpedo impact
                Torpedo impact
          0755  Surfaced
                Firing at will
          0803  Enemy Unit Destroyed
          0806  Firing tube 5, sir!
                Firing tube 6, sir!
                Torpedo in the water
                Torpedo in the water
          0811  Enemy Unit Destroyed
          0814  Torpedo missed sir
                Torpedo missed sir
          1801  RADIO TRAFFIC:
                >> From: COMSUBPAC
                >> To: USS Pollack
                >> Contact Reported. Enemy Small Convoy , Long 118° 58' E, Lat  12° 19' N , Course
                >> S, Speed 12 KTS!
                
          1809  RADIO TRAFFIC:
                >> From: COMSUBPAC
                >> To: USS Pollack
                >> Contact Reported. Enemy Task Force , Long 107° 00' E, Lat   3° 37' N , Course
                >> N, Speed 11 KTS!
                
19411217  0612  Aircraft spotted, sir! Bearing 314! Long range!
          0613  Firing at will
          0614  Enemy Unit Destroyed
                Ship spotted, sir! Bearing 097! Short range!
          0616  Ship spotted, sir! Bearing 028! Short range!
          0617  RADIO TRAFFIC:
                >> From: COMSUBPAC
                >> To: USS Pollack
                >> Contact Reported. Enemy Task Force , Long 133° 11' E, Lat  29° 25' N , Course
                >> SW, Speed 12 KTS!
                
          1755  RADIO TRAFFIC:
                >> From: COMSUBPAC
                >> To: ...
                >> JAPANESE TROOPS HAVE LANDED IN BORNEO X
                
19411218  0029  RADIO TRAFFIC:
                >> From: COMSUBPAC
                >> To: USS Pollack
                >> Contact Reported. Enemy Task Force , Long 134° 18' E, Lat  28° 20' N , Course
                >> WSW, Speed 11 KTS!
                
          1841  RADIO TRAFFIC:
                >> From: COMSUBPAC
                >> To: USS Pollack
                >> Contact Reported. Enemy Task Force , Long 133° 08' E, Lat  30° 25' N , Course
                >> WSW, Speed 12 KTS!
                
19411219  0719  RADIO TRAFFIC:
                >> From: COMSUBPAC
                >> To: USS Pollack
                >> Contact Reported. Enemy Task Force , Long 110° 14' E, Lat   8° 53' N , Course
                >> NNE, Speed 11 KTS!
                
          1354  RADIO TRAFFIC:
                >> From: COMSUBPAC
                >> To: USS Pollack
                >> Contact Reported. Enemy Task Force , Long 117° 32' E, Lat  16° 11' N , Course
                >> N, Speed 11 KTS!
                
19411220  0643  Aircraft spotted, sir! Bearing 159! Long range!
          0646  Submerged
          1324  Surfaced
          1418  Aircraft spotted, sir! Bearing 192! Long range!
          1934  Ship spotted, sir! Bearing 323! Long range!
          1936  Nearest visual contact at bearing 039, range 13780 ft!
          1938  Dive to periscope depth
          1948  Ship spotted, sir! Bearing 005! Medium range!
                Firing tube 1, sir!
                Torpedo in the water
                Firing tube 2, sir!
                Torpedo in the water
                Firing tube 3, sir!
                Torpedo in the water
          1949  Firing tube 4, sir!
                Torpedo in the water
          1951  Surfaced
          1957  Torpedo missed sir
                Torpedo missed sir
                Torpedo missed sir
          1958  Torpedo missed sir
          2006  Firing tube 1, sir!
                Torpedo in the water
          2007  Torpedo impact
          2010  Enemy Unit Destroyed
          2011  Ship spotted, sir! Bearing 344! Short range!
Now I am working on cleaning up the repeat messages (Firing Tube 1, sir. Firing Tube 2 etc,) and consolidating it into a single entry of how many tubes fired, number of ships spotted la la la....

Once I am finished with the refining of the text file output, I will build the User interface and we should be ready for BETA 1. No time frame yet.
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