I'm taking the liberty to suggest a small app.
One thing that I miss while playing that is now possible with the new journal files. A display that shows recent communications in the chat.
So this would be a window that just shows:
and
Currently I think the messages disappear to quickly and if you are otherwise engaged in game, it can be difficult/dangerous to enable the comms panel to read the last messages.
It would be preferable to have player to player comms in one window and all incoming NPC comms in another.
-The last 20 received messages should be displayed, including those from earlier play sessions (read journal at startup of the app)
-No need to store old messages in any way (though it wouldn't hurt)
-Ideally it would also show the in-game messages you get when you rank up or for mission updates, but I don't think they are written to the journal files.
Anyone working on something like this?
I know that Elite-Journal can do this by filtering, but currently it does not read the journal files dynamically, you have to load them. EDDiscovery can also do this through filtering, but I use EDD for other stuff and EDD is slightly overkill for this functionality.
One thing that I miss while playing that is now possible with the new journal files. A display that shows recent communications in the chat.
So this would be a window that just shows:
Code:
10.17 ReceiveText
When written: when a text message is received from another player or npc
Parameters:
• From
• Message
• Channel: (wing/local/voicechat/friend/player/npc)
Code:
10.20 SendText
When written: when a text message is sent to another player
Parameters:
• To
• Message
Example:
{ "timestamp":"2016-06-10T14:32:03Z", "event":"SendText", "To":"HRC-2", "Message":"zoom" }Currently I think the messages disappear to quickly and if you are otherwise engaged in game, it can be difficult/dangerous to enable the comms panel to read the last messages.
It would be preferable to have player to player comms in one window and all incoming NPC comms in another.
-The last 20 received messages should be displayed, including those from earlier play sessions (read journal at startup of the app)
-No need to store old messages in any way (though it wouldn't hurt)
-Ideally it would also show the in-game messages you get when you rank up or for mission updates, but I don't think they are written to the journal files.
Anyone working on something like this?
I know that Elite-Journal can do this by filtering, but currently it does not read the journal files dynamically, you have to load them. EDDiscovery can also do this through filtering, but I use EDD for other stuff and EDD is slightly overkill for this functionality.
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