Monday, November 08, 2010 at 12:04 AM.

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system.verbs.builtins.log.addToGuestDatabase

on addToGuestDatabase (logname, subTableName=nil, flHourlyRoll=false) {
	<<12/14/98; 1:57:30 PM by DW
		<<This is the new modern equivalent of log.add.
			<<log.add calls this if user.log.prefs.flLogToGuestDatabase is true.
			<<As its name implies, this verb only adds to the guest database log.
			<<It has a richer 6ish parameter list.
		<<logname says which branch of the day's log gets the item
		<<subTableName, if specified, says what the table for this log entry will be called
		<<flHourlyRoll, is a boolean, if true, we start a new sub-table every hour
		<<we return the address of the newly created table, the caller should any any information that is to be saved in the log database
	<<2/22/99; 5:15:47 PM by DW
		<<the body of this whole script is enclosed in a semaphore
	<<3/7/99; 3:20:43 PM by PBS
		<<Removed the semaphore, it was unneeded.
	
	local (now = clock.now ());
	local (adrlog = log.getGuestSubTable (logname));
	
	if system.temp.log.addsSinceSave++ > user.log.prefs.addsBetweenSaves {
		fileMenu.saveMyRoot (adrlog);
		system.temp.log.addsSinceSave = 0};
	
	if flHourlyRoll {
		local (day, month, year, hour, minute, second);
		date.get (now, @day, @month, @year, @hour, @minute, @second);
		adrlog = @adrlog^.[string.padwithzeros (hour, 2)];
		if not defined (adrlog^) {
			new (tabletype, adrlog);
			try {delete (@[f].["item #1"])}}};
	
	if subTableName == nil {
		subTableName = string (now)};
	
	local (adrsubtable = xml.addTable (adrlog, subTableName));
	return (adrsubtable)}

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