I wanted to wait until you released the script to comment on this. But this script is, as of yet, just still a POC (proof of concept) and doesn't work and seems to complicate things too much (imho).
Anyways, are you going to store all stats seperatly per date? If so, I strongly suggest not to use the registry. It will fill up quickly with (actually many times useless) data in that case. Use XML or maybe even a database for that, much more efficient.
If you plan to simply store 24 DWORDs (that's what I would do, is alo what the OP requested), thus not storing the stats per date, but simply the totals, then the registry is choice number one of course.
PS: all the initializing and putting "hour_of_day[i] = 0" codelines are not needed. Just grab what is in the registry (and if nothing is there, then set the value to 0) when the user signs in, and put it back in the registry when the user signs out.
Also, don't forget to make a check if the recieved message comes from a contact or from yourself. Otherwise it will count your own messages twice.
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Originally posted by SpunkyLoveMuff
the only problem I have is that the charts don't seem to download
The url is wrong...
http://
www.chart.apis.google.com/
and as said above, the script is actually made too complicated then it needs to be; which is probably part of the cause of the errors.
$0,02
PS: although you can easly make your own chart by drawing a few lines, the use of the Google Chart API is a nice. Never thought of that...cool.
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