Console Spam Control

Garry's Mod general
#1

A toggled feature activated via console command. Basically it would stop console spam after about 2 or 3 seconds (maybe make that alterable?) and pause the scripts so you have a chance to look at the original error that is usually getting overwritten at the top.

So maybe a few console commands like:


consolespam_block 1/0 --Enables/Disables
consolespam_timer <time in seconds to wait before stopping the spam>
consolespam_haltscript 1/0 --Halt the script that the error comes from. Maybe just the function(i.e. Think())?

Just an idea. I get annoyed when I’m trying to debug my scripts and it spams so fast that I can’t find the original problem. You know, like the error shown at the very beginning when the game starts? All the spam is sometimes untraceable.

#2

This could work, it would certainly stop flooding the spam that I also get, from LUA errors, and crappy Particles,

#3

How can haz do thus?

#4

I get annoyed when you are trying to find one small line of text in the console while being constantly spammed with “SPAMSPAMSPAMSPAM”.

:wink:

#5

maybe an option to not display lines if the previous line is identical to them?

#6

grea$emonkey will know what I’m talking about.

#7

Sorry for the bump, but this could be damn useful. We’ve all been there ( And by ‘we’ i mean us Coders, :stuck_out_tongue: )

Lexic, thats a damn good idea. Stopping the console from displaying text would be a bad idea, because you’d either miss everything that was SUPPOSED to be there, or crash. Only problem i can see in that is if there are 3 slightly different errors all spamming at once, at the same rate…

Foocked if i know how to do this, and almost 100% sure it can’t be done in Lua. Perhaps ill play around with my Mod and see if i can get something working. ( After the Instancing script, ofcourse :v: )

#8

Pausing the error reporting would be the only useful feature (So as you can track the error)

#9

GMOD used to have an option to disable showing Lua errors, but it was removed for some reason.

I’d like to have the command back, thank you. :argh:

#10

Would solve my issue (partially) with a built-in of GMod spamming “CROSSHAIR 1 IS BLOCKED, LOL!”

#11

I’d like an option to disable on-screen lua spam and keep it in the console.

#12

lua_showerrors_cl 0 ftw but it got removed when you didn’t want to see server side errors that is not your server.