quote:
Originally posted by Vilkku
Also, I have tons of old log files (before MP!L was released, Plus! logged in .txt). Any chance those can be merged with the new Live logs?
Theoretically, it could be possible, but it'd be very hard. In the old chat logs, long names are cut off which can cause a lot of trouble trying to detect which person wrote which message. There'd also be a problem when trying to convert the standard emoticon codes to images, as the Images folder in each log folder is filled by Plus! itself and you can't rely on having a certain image present in that folder because the file names (e.g. MsgPlus_Img1337.png) doesn't tell you the original code and/or the contact who sent it. And retrieving the smiley image is no option when you have logs dating from a few years ago.
As for your first suggestion... I understand you want a tool to convert a structure like this:
code:
August 2008
- someone@hotmail.com
- somebody@hotmail.com
July 2008
- somebody@hotmail.com
to:
code:
someone@hotmail.com
- August 2008
- July 2008
somebody@hotmail.com
- July 2008
and vice versa? That's a very good suggestion, but...
Unfortunately, I stopped working on this project a long time ago. This was because of the fact that the actual encryption/decryption process was coded in a crappy way which has already caused a lot of trouble to some users. The main problem is that there's no real way for me to be able to keep track of how far the encryption process has progressed, since it completely relies on a single tool delivered by Plus! (the MPTools.exe). Also, the fact that it's a Plus! Live script, it has to share its memory and CPU usage with Messenger and other scripts which makes it lag a lot.
It would be great if I could learn how to code real standalone programs in C++ or C# or whatever and make it complete with asynchronous calls and scheduled events, but I simply don't have the skills and equipment for that yet. Log Manager really doesn't have a great advantage being integrated in Messenger, so it'd really be awesome if I could pull this off as a "real" program. But don't get your hopes too high - it may still take a few years until that happens. As for the time being, I'll concentrate on simple Plus! Live scripting and web development... remember: I'm only 16!
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