New Messenger Plus! Log Viewer version (v0.21 beta 2) available from http://360software.dakotabcn.net/logviewer
Hope you like it

Changes in this version:

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0.21 (June 21, 2004):
- Minor update (forgot to delete temp. files)

0.2 (June 21, 2004):
- Added Unicode support, finally (though one).
- Logs are now shown in HTML instead of RTF, some parts were completely rewritten (it could
take more memory, but it's more reliable and works much faster with emoticons now).
- Hotkeys are now the following:
    - CTRL+O: open log.
    - CTRL+P: open preferences window.
    - CTRL+F1: open about window.
    - F1: help (for future).
    - ESCAPE: cancels log loading.
    - F5: reload current log.
    - CTRL+F: find.
    - CTRL+ALT+A: toggle always on top.
- If you hold shift while clicking the open button, the log will be opened in a new Log
  Viewer instance.
- Lots of changes and bug fixes since last beta.

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I know this  is stupid and sorta spamish, but what is a Log Viewer??

Check my website

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Messenger Plus! Log Viewer is a program that opens and processes Messenger Plus! chat logs so you can see them
in rich text format.

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Lopardo you cease to amaze me. Good work congrats and care to hear something funny. Your app will read logs when the Plus! says the password is incorrect . Well so far it has for the person i told to try your Log Viewer.

Again Congrats, keep up the good work.

This is great!!! Thanks a lot and keep up the good work please .

GREAT! AWESOME!

I CAN USE WITH MY UNICODE LOG NOW, THANKS lopardo!

BTW, I want to ask some question:

1. Is Log Viewer only a standalone program? or have plug-in for MsgPlus! ?

2. I cannot use the "Shell integration" function? What should I do?


And I have some suggestion too:

Is it possible to integrate into MsgPlus!? i.e. "open contact's chat log...", "Open Chat Log", "/viewlog"....

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Originally posted by josh
And I have some suggestion too:
Is it possible to integrate into MsgPlus!? i.e. "open contact's chat log...", "Open Chat Log", "/viewlog"....

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New little update released, check the first post.

Thanks everyone for your kind comments.

@josh

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Originally posted by josh
1. Is Log Viewer only a standalone program? or have plug-in for MsgPlus! ?

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Originally posted by josh
2. I cannot use the "Shell integration" function? What should I do?

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Great, great great job, lopardo

This log viewer is very promising (I'm not saying this just because I got mentioned, indeed )

Nicely Done....Works great. But has anyone figrued how to get custom emotions from where ever they are? , i know its not easy, but is it even possible?

Ps. A picky problem, when i reopen a persons log after viewing someone elses log, the new log didnt show up,  only the notepad page came up. (hope u got the crap i talked)

Edit: Is it possible to add a feature to zoom the text+emotions?,  like the one in the conversation window itself? (Ctrl+Scroll)

Great log viewer, but a few problems.

1. Opening a .ple file in Explorer opens both Log Viewer and Notepad, is there any way to stop this?

2. When I tried to open my Events Log.txt, I got a s*** load of Windows Explorer needs to close errors. Log Viewer has been assosiated with Plus! log .txt files.

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Originally posted by Chloe
But has anyone figrued how to get custom emotions from where ever they are? , i know its not easy, but is it even possible?

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Originally posted by Chloe
A picky problem, when i reopen a persons log after viewing someone elses log, the new log didnt show up,  only the notepad page came up. (hope u got the crap i talked)

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Originally posted by Chloe
Is it possible to add a feature to zoom the text+emotions?,  like the one in the conversation window itself? (Ctrl+Scroll)

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Originally posted by Chaotic_Shield
1. Opening a .ple file in Explorer opens both Log Viewer and Notepad, is there any way to stop this?

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Originally posted by Chaotic_Shield
2. When I tried to open my Events Log.txt, I got a s*** load of Windows Explorer needs to close errors. Log Viewer has been assosiated with Plus! log .txt files.

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Originally posted by lopardo

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Originally posted by Chloe
But has anyone figrued how to get custom emotions from where ever they are? , i know its not easy, but is it even possible?

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It's already in my to-do list, I have to investigate this.

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Originally posted by Chloe
A picky problem, when i reopen a persons log after viewing someone elses log, the new log didnt show up,  only the notepad page came up. (hope u got the crap i talked)

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Can you make a step by step description of what you are doing in order to reproduce that?

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Originally posted by Matty.

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Originally posted by lopardo

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Originally posted by Chloe
But has anyone figrued how to get custom emotions from where ever they are? , i know its not easy, but is it even possible?

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It's already in my to-do list, I have to investigate this.

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In the original release of MSN Messenger they were .bin files stored in your temporary directory. (Temporary Internet Files) the only thing is is I doubt your viewer will be able to show custom emoticons because how are you going to know which code is used for which emoticon. Sorry but as far as I can tell, its a limitation that cant be done.

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Originally posted by lopardo
New little update released, check the first post.

Thanks everyone for your kind comments.

@josh

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Originally posted by josh
2. I cannot use the "Shell integration" function? What should I do?

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Extract the .exe and .dll in the same directory. Then you'll get something like this:

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I'm using the Quick Text thing with the command /openlog to read my logs with this program(set up just like how u said), it worx but I have 1 problem, it's not really a bug tho, when I open a Large Log file(the 1s that give an error about being 2 big to load in Notepad), I think when opening with the Logviewer that it shouldn't report that error, If i hit no it keeps loading in Logviewer, an if I hit yess it also Loads in wordpad along side of LogViewer.

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Originally posted by Millenium_edition

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Originally posted by Matty.

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Originally posted by lopardo

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Originally posted by Chloe
But has anyone figrued how to get custom emotions from where ever they are? , i know its not easy, but is it even possible?

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It's already in my to-do list, I have to investigate this.

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In the original release of MSN Messenger they were .bin files stored in your temporary directory. (Temporary Internet Files) the only thing is is I doubt your viewer will be able to show custom emoticons because how are you going to know which code is used for which emoticon. Sorry but as far as I can tell, its a limitation that cant be done.

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go to http://www.msnfanatic.com/forums and search for "decrypting map.dat"
there you go, there is a bunch of info on how to do this you don't have to re-encrypt it eh ?

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Originally posted by Chloe
1.Open a normal log file. (Call it Log A)
2.Open a bigger log file. (Call it log B)
3. Now,before the log B loads, open another log file. (Call it log C)

The problem is,  it dosent open log C, but Log B.

Ps. It seems to happen sometimes  And some times, it opens Log C, but then Switches back to Log B in a moment.

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Originally posted by josh
Does it works when I enable Archiving function?

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Originally posted by CaSpA
when I open a Large Log file(the 1s that give an error about being 2 big to load in Notepad), I think when opening with the Logviewer that it shouldn't report that error, If i hit no it keeps loading in Logviewer, an if I hit yess it also Loads in wordpad along side of LogViewer.

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ive found a small bug with the log viewer.

in my chat logs, there was an ftp link that had an @ in it and log viewer tried converting it to an email link insted of it opening in IE or soemthing, it opened in Outlook witht eh address in the to field

Thanks for reporting, I'm going to check it.

by the way i fogot to say in my last post -  great work

can u make the icon you know it has the origianl then over it has the plus! butterfly cos i tried to use the one from the program but ti wouldnt let me so has sum1 got it?

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Originally posted by _-PhRiVe-_
can u make the icon you know it has the origianl then over it has the plus! butterfly cos i tried to use the one from the program but ti wouldnt let me so has sum1 got it?

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Originally posted by Dempsey
by the way i fogot to say in my last post -  great work

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Originally posted by _-PhRiVe-_
can u make the icon you know it has the origianl then over it has the plus! butterfly cos i tried to use the one from the program but ti wouldnt let me so has sum1 got it?

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email me @ info[at]huuf.net if you need help with the custom emoticons thing ( figured that out a long time ago)

also you remove spaces when there is a real enter
you could try fixing this by counting the characters on 1 line and if the length is more then X off then put in a enter

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Originally posted by Huuf
email me @ info[at]huuf.net if you need help with the custom emoticons thing ( figured that out a long time ago)

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Originally posted by Huuf
also you remove spaces when there is a real enter
you could try fixing this by counting the characters on 1 line and if the length is more then X off then put in a enter

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ok for some reason, when i open a log file it looks as it should..  my texts are one color and the friends color are another, but when i open a log that a friend sended me, all the text is black, mine and hers! why does that happen? maybe because it wasnt saved with the PLUS LOG option and with the MSN log normal thing?  is there anyway to get it as a plus log? i mean, its kinda annoying to read everything with black text.. is there anything i can do to put it as normal plus logs? thanks in advance.. btw.. this rocks! u da man!

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Originally posted by Fredzz
open a log that a friend sended me, all the text is black, mine and hers! why does that happen? maybe because it wasnt saved with the PLUS LOG option and with the MSN log normal thing?  is there anyway to get it as a plus log? i mean, its kinda annoying to read everything with black text.. is there anything i can do to put it as normal plus logs? thanks in advance.. btw.. this rocks! u da man!

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From Log Viewer's about window
- If you don't disable the "truncate long contact names" in Plus!, Log Viewer will surely fail with mosts of your logs. That's because of the way Plus! cuts the names in the log file (it cuts the first part in the header and the last part in the rest of the log, so it's very difficult to detect the users). A modification from Patchou would be really nice.
However, Log Viewer will detect if you are using this configuration and will ask you if you want to change it, and if so, it will change it automatically for all the users. Existing logs with truncated names will be impossible to process
You are able to cut the names again in Log Viewer (so you can get the same format).

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