Notifications - on whisper receive & Battle start [configurable]
copy conversations
Installation
This is a portable app and is packaged inside a simple zip file. Just extract the zip and run LogReader.exe
IMPORTANT: simply opening the zip in some program and running logreader.exe will NOT work. You must extract all the files for the app to be able to read them
The in game chat doesn’t show all messages from current session let alone all the sessions
This app reads all available log so you can find a message from yesterday.
Say you want to find a link that someone in corp chat posted a day ago. Normally you’d have to look through each log folder’s chat.log (unless you have a third party text editor app or IDE that allows searching in multiple files). With this you can just alt-tab to the app, Ctrl+f and directly click it instead of having to copy paste from log file
In game chat doesn’t let you copy (translation assistance method just feels awkward) or click links or translate Russian messages with one click
This app also allows you to have notification sounds when you receive a message or your battle starts. So you can queue up, have this app running and do something else, watch a movie being assures you’ll hear a sound when your game starts so you don’t miss it
You cans also do what I do- move this app’s window to a secondary screen (I moved it to my third, small screen that I use for console mostly.) Now I can make full use of both my monitors while being able to read chat as it goes
Switching to the game takes 2-3 seconds for me since I play in full screen mode with different resolution
If it helps, from one of my tools, parsing game.log here:
Match match = Regex.Match(line, @"^(\d{2}:\d{2}:\d{2}.\d{3})\s+| ====== starting level: 'levels/\.?/\’ (\w)", RegexOptions.Compiled);
if (match.Success == false || match.Groups[2].Value == “mainmenu” || match.Groups[4].Value != “FreeSpace”)
{
freeSpace = false;
Nice to see there’s more public third party stuff out there now.
PS: No, I’m not back to the game, was just passing by checking whether it’s worth it but looks like more of the same old.
Thanks for sharing. I actually didn’t know game.log logs this information (never really looked into it)
Sadly the timestamps are slightly different for entering chat channel (in chat.log) and starting level (in game.log) and i’m not sure what time-range to cross-check, because it may be off by more seconds on other people’s clients
Thats too bad, I really liked your combat log analyzer
Maybe one day when they refocus on the PVP aspect of the game. Although seeing your new forum group tag you joined the dark side yourself, so it’s all your fault anyway. <3 (and congrats old friend!)
Thanks for sharing. I actually didn’t know game.log logs this information (never really looked into it)
Sadly the timestamps are slightly different for entering chat channel (in chat.log) and starting level (in game.log) and i’m not sure what time-range to cross-check, because it may be off by more seconds on other people’s clients
Yep, synchronizing the different logs was a bit of a pain (my old invasion mode overlay did multi-threaded asynchronous real time parsing of the different logs, fun fun; luckily my chat reader didn’t do alarms so I didn’t have the issue there). But in your case it should be easy since you’re guaranteed an entry in the game.log so I guess you could just ignore the chat.log entry for the purposes of determining when to ring the bell.
In your example I’m fairly certain those two lines don’t go together btw, the chat channel joining should happen at roughly the same time as the “level started:” entry in the game log, which comes after the “starting level:” line. Unless the servers are even worse than they used to be I suppose.
Anyway, signing out again, enjoy the coding and the pew pew.
But in your case it should be easy since you’re guaranteed an entry in the game.log so I guess you could just ignore the chat.log entry for the purposes of determining when to ring the bell.
FANTASTIC APP!!! Just – thank you! +10,000,000 for the triangulation sound! I’ve wanted that for more than two years! I even filed an enhancement request a year ago or so. Ability to translate and click links sounds nice too… but it’s worth it to me just for the triangulation sound. That way, I can turn down the game sound and do something else without missing the start of a battle… which has happened dozens of times to me.
(It would be nice to put (28mb) next to the link to download)
I’m hoping I will finally be able to read those insults in Russian that get fired at me every now and then!!
