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Re: "message pane" scraper Wed, 07 August 2013 06:25 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
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* There's a couple "extra" bytes at start. Are they for formatting or versioning purposes?

Seems like you mean UTF8 header bytes?

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* Including the full "message string" at the end of each line seems a bit overkill.

Sure. It's temporary here just for the debugging purposes and to make it easy to understand what does all these numbers means. But for an automation purposes EventId column should be used.

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* I can't remember what the "HintId" column is for. Sherlock

Currently I always make it 0, but in fact there is a two byte "shortcut" used by goto button and it can reference planet, fleet, technology browser, etc. I'm not sure if it have any usage for automation purposes, but in any case I have to sort it out before dumping into the file.

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* The "recent breakthrough" messages seem to have a different format for some params. Confused

Well, yes and no. Format is the same, but in fact several event params actually use two value args, this is why I currently put them in one Arg, separated by "|" symbol. I'm still thinking on how to correctly dump these ones.

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Perhaps you'll like to test against much bigger (and complex) m-files? I should have a handful fat ones still around. Lurking

Absolutely, just need to make sure it works on all of my games collection. Smile



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