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How do I copy In-Game Messages?

Thu, 23 July 2009 18:44

Einherjock

Petty Officer 3rd Class

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Location: Seattle, WA, USA

Is there a way I can copy my in-game messages that come to me? I would like to copy them and paste into an email to share with my alliance, but I can't highlight the text so I can copy it. Any ideas?
-Einherjock

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Re: How do I copy In-Game Messages?

Thu, 23 July 2009 19:28

PaulCr

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You can only copy them if you get the scroll bar, you could try reducing the size of the message box but there is a limit to how small you can make it.

The only other way would be to have a program to grab it from the m file directly, as far as I know the only program that could do that at the moment is a stars to xml decoder I wrote to help in decoding the stars data formats but given that the m files contain some major information that shouldn't be available that utility can't be made publicly available since it would also give access to that extra information.

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Re: How do I copy In-Game Messages?

Thu, 23 July 2009 20:01

gible

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Location: Wellington, New Zealand

Star! Message Reader does something like that...only tried it briefly a long time ago tho.

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Re: How do I copy In-Game Messages?

Sat, 07 November 2009 12:00

johng316

Chief Warrant Officer 3

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Registered: November 2002
Location: Indiana, USA

If you're referring to ingame messages from players, you should be able to highlight them and use these commands:

Windows shortcuts:

Copy: <ctrl> C
Paste: <ctrl> V

You have to highlight the text in the ingame message first by left clicking and dragging over the message. Then use copy and paste keyboard commands above.

If you are referring to the general messages that come from the game itself (status messages), yeah, you can't highlight those. You'll have to follow the advice from previous replies.

[Updated on: Sat, 07 November 2009 12:07]

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Re: How do I copy In-Game Messages?

Mon, 09 November 2009 15:02

Einherjock

Petty Officer 3rd Class

Messages: 41
Registered: February 2008
Location: Seattle, WA, USA

I've been following the advice from PaulCR above. He is right that you can only copy the message if you get the scroll bars. To do that, I shrink the message window until it is small enough to put the scroll bars in. If the message is really short you may not be able to make the window small enough, but then again it is probably short enough to just retype Smile

Thanks for all the ideas!
-Einherjock

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Re: How do I copy In-Game Messages?

Thu, 15 July 2010 16:39

ironhair

Crewman 1st Class

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Registered: June 2010

I know this is an old message, but for other users I'll post what I generally do...
just right click on the message box and I get a box where I get the options of "select All". Once I do that, I right click and copy (I think Ctrl+C works as well).
I'm not sure if this is only in vista or if it was a feature in XP as well.

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Re: How do I copy In-Game Messages?

Fri, 16 July 2010 04:19

m.a@stars

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ironhair wrote on Thu, 15 July 2010 22:39

I'm not sure if this is only in vista or if it was a feature in XP as well.

XP only allows to "select all" in messages which already have scroll bars. Hit Computer

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