SS2 ingame message dumper - updated!

[664a3f308e2d7Assidragon]

What does it do?

This application will take your ingame messages (out of nanites, weapon mode switching, weapon equipped, out of reload, etc, basically - anything that appears in the top of your screen), and puts them into a HTML file (with proper formatting).

Screenshot of the thing working:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v600/assidragon/ss2logscreenshot.jpg

How to install?
The zip file contains an exe and a dll, and the settings I used it with. Extract them anywhere, as long as they stay in the same folder. The zip also comes with an example  HTML of what the dump looks like.

How to use?
Launch this application, then launch SS2. When you feel content, Alt+TAB out from SS2 into this application; FILE menu / Search for SS2. If all goes well, it tells you it found it (if you don't see a window appearing, well, then it found it but forgot to tell you  ). Then you can begin logging (also in file menu). It will log as long as you want it to. When you feel it's enough, you can halt logging - file menu, again. You can also resume logging anytime you wish. If you quit the game while logging, the logger will notice and automatically stop the process, saving the log file.

Features?

• Writes proper HTML files, not plain txt ones. (update over the previous version.)
• Autofile naming. If you set the dump file name to "autoname", the logger will auto-name the files (each file will be saved under different name).
• Customizable settings. You can select the update frequency (in milliseconds), the extent of messages the logger should check (max 18 - that's how much SS2 keeps in memory) and the file.

Known bugs/issues/limitations?
If you run multiple instances of SS2 at once, the app will only log the first one.

If you have any problems with this, post it here or contact me at dobos(underline)andras(at)hotmail(dot)com. The source code is also in the zip file; it should compile out-of-the box with MSVC7.1 (aka NET2003). Happy logging.

Last updated: 2005. 10. 28. Fixed a bug which sometimes resulted in the app not finding the running Shock2 properly.

[664a3f308e63cKolya]

For reference: The message dumper was discussed here on TTLG.
[Edited out information referring to the older version]