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Thoughts for a program - color coded condumps / logs

PostPosted:Wed Dec 10, 2008 6:21 pm
by jawfin
I don't know about you guys but I'm contstantly taking condumps for lots of reasons.

Now the raw text of a condump is teh ugly, so I was thinking of creating an application that can read a condump and display it color coded (probably save as HTML), especially the chat.

As a condump doesn't save the ^ colors I can't bring it back like the original, but I'm sure it'll be far more readable.

Expressions of interest?

PostPosted:Thu Dec 11, 2008 4:30 am
by Falcon
Sounds like a good idea. You could make it an addition your admin commander.

PostPosted:Thu Dec 11, 2008 4:33 am
by jawfin
Well, as it will be used to parse through existing text files, and render color into them, it will look more like wordpad. I may yet enable editing the file, in colors too.

It won't require JKA to be running for this to work, so the functionality of AC is different to this. I was also considering having the option to save the rendered file as RTF. HTML and perhaps also a BBCODE export so it can be copied into a forum post while maintaining the colours.

But again this would be a reasonable amount of work, that just may not jusified if no-one would use it. I can also add that once done, there wouldn't be much change needed to have it read server log files and convert those too. In which case I may put in filters, so you can only see chat, and also have searching facilities.

PostPosted:Fri Dec 12, 2008 12:17 am
by Delev
This sounds like a good idea, even though I've never needed to use a condump before.

PostPosted:Mon Dec 15, 2008 2:27 am
by jawfin
Due to the overwhelming lack of interest, this topic can be closed; unless someone beats Kimi to it.