EDProfiler - A New Display Switcher/Robust Settings Profiler/Switcher/Detector!

drkaii · Aug 7, 2018

Hi guys, I have a new tool for testing. Any volunteers? It's a tool that records what you type in local chat and converts it into a properly organised "captain's log", saving to text files in a logical way and easy to find read and edit. I think it should be mostly bug free, but I want to give it some extensive testing to make sure it's released in working order from the go so it gets picked up. I think this tool is especially important for VR users, or those who sit in cockpits and it's inconvenient to be alt-tabbing out of the game to make notes.

Everything in the above image is auto-generated/formatted by the tool, all I did was type the notes themselves in game!

So yes, beta tester volunteers please. Email me: Kaii@dr.com

p.s. no sorry the only thing the tool supports is Elite, can't add anything to the Oculus debug tool, but I don't think you need to. I think maybe you've got your settings mixed up a bit, keep faffing!

Alec Turner said:
Oh no - it's a command line flag for the EDLaunch.exe. I use it to stop Oculus Home and/or SteamVR popping up when I'm playing 2D Elite.

Added!

drkaii · Aug 9, 2018

When your own program starts pranking you, you start becoming unusually concerned with protecting Sarah Connor

During a recent test run of the program, no matter what I typed, it would always just type "lol"

That's legit trolling right there

NW3 · Aug 10, 2018

What can I say, but LOL!

dunno · Aug 10, 2018

MAIN SEQUENCE said:
Bit puzzled why you would set the in-game HMD IQ to 1.75 when you have the debug tool set to 2.0? As they are, to all intents and purposes, the same thing - I'm not 100% sure but I believe the in-game setting will override whatever is in the debug tool.

Thats what I thought too. I was bored and annoyed with the lack of clarity with ED HMD set to 2.0 and SS 1.0. I then tried the debug tool's SS @ 2.0 and it HAS considerably improved Clarity for me, in stations my GPU work load is 99%, perfect.

Dr. Kaii what's this teal colour scheme that you've mentioned ?.

[VR] Muskoka · Aug 10, 2018

Getting this error with the latest release when I try to save a profile.

drkaii · Aug 10, 2018

I've updated EDProfiler, PLEASE test the new tool. I am very excited to take it out of beta, as it's AWESOME

I have to go now, I hope it's all good, otherwise I'll be back Satuday o7

drkaii · Aug 10, 2018

Hold up, some troubles updating, try again soon, or wait until I am back on sunday

EDIT: It's working, but there will be an error. Quit and restart and it will update. There is an error if the tool closes and there are no files. No time to fix now, so get a file in there and you can test. See you!

VR andysonofbob · Aug 11, 2018

Is there a setting people use to reduce smear?
Thanks

drkaii · Aug 12, 2018

Hi everyone, I've spend a few hours eliminating any and all traces of bugs or weird behaviour in the new CMDR Logs tool. Will start advertising to explorers and VR users to test soon, in the meantime if any of you found the program misbehaving this weekend, update now and it should be all fine. If not, please, as always, let me know o7

andysonofbob said:
Is there a setting people use to reduce smear?
Thanks

will try and come up with one

and respond to messages i missed later

amadeus1171 · Aug 12, 2018

What was this update for?

drgnkght · Aug 12, 2018

Hey Doc, just wanted to let you know that I'm also getting an exception when creating profiles. (As a C# programmer, I'll try not to hold the Visual Basic thing against you. We all make mistakes. [wacko])

Joking aside, I haven't tested it enough to know if it is tied to a specific control or more general in nature. Please note that the exception occurred when I clicked the Create New Profile dialog's OK button.

Message is as follows:

System.InvalidCastException: Conversion from string "Medium" to type 'Integer' is not valid. ---> System.FormatException: Input string was not in a correct format.
at Microsoft.VisualBasic.CompilerServices.Conversions.ParseDouble(String Value, NumberFormatInfo NumberFormat)
at Microsoft.VisualBasic.CompilerServices.Conversions.ToInteger(String Value)
--- End of inner exception stack trace ---
at Microsoft.VisualBasic.CompilerServices.Conversions.ToInteger(String Value)
at Microsoft.VisualBasic.CompilerServices.Conversions.ToInteger(Object Value)
at EDProfiler.EDPMainForm.ListBox_Profiles_SelectedIndexChanged(Object sender, EventArgs e)
at System.Windows.Forms.ListBox.OnSelectedIndexChanged(EventArgs e)
at System.Windows.Forms.ListBox.set_SelectedIndex(Int32 value)
at System.Windows.Forms.ListBox.set_SelectedItem(Object value)
at EDProfiler.EDPMainForm.saveProfile(Boolean saveAsNew)
at EDProfiler.EDPMainForm.Button_CreateNew_Click(Object sender, EventArgs e)
at System.Windows.Forms.Control.OnClick(EventArgs e)
at System.Windows.Forms.Button.OnClick(EventArgs e)
at System.Windows.Forms.Button.OnMouseUp(MouseEventArgs mevent)
at System.Windows.Forms.Control.WmMouseUp(Message& m, MouseButtons button, Int32 clicks)
at System.Windows.Forms.Control.WndProc(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.ButtonBase.WndProc(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.Button.WndProc(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.Control.ControlNativeWindow.OnMessage(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.Control.ControlNativeWindow.WndProc(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.NativeWindow.Callback(IntPtr hWnd, Int32 msg, IntPtr wparam, IntPtr lparam)

drkaii · Aug 13, 2018

drgnkght said:
Hey Doc, just wanted to let you know that I'm also getting an exception when creating profiles. (As a C# programmer, I'll try not to hold the Visual Basic thing against you. We all make mistakes. [wacko])

Joking aside, I haven't tested it enough to know if it is tied to a specific control or more general in nature. Please note that the exception occurred when I clicked the Create New Profile dialog's OK button.

Message is as follows:

System.InvalidCastException: Conversion from string "Medium" to type 'Integer' is not valid. ---> System.FormatException: Input string was not in a correct format.
at Microsoft.VisualBasic.CompilerServices.Conversions.ParseDouble(String Value, NumberFormatInfo NumberFormat)
at Microsoft.VisualBasic.CompilerServices.Conversions.ToInteger(String Value)
--- End of inner exception stack trace ---
at Microsoft.VisualBasic.CompilerServices.Conversions.ToInteger(String Value)
at Microsoft.VisualBasic.CompilerServices.Conversions.ToInteger(Object Value)
at EDProfiler.EDPMainForm.ListBox_Profiles_SelectedIndexChanged(Object sender, EventArgs e)
at System.Windows.Forms.ListBox.OnSelectedIndexChanged(EventArgs e)
at System.Windows.Forms.ListBox.set_SelectedIndex(Int32 value)
at System.Windows.Forms.ListBox.set_SelectedItem(Object value)
at EDProfiler.EDPMainForm.saveProfile(Boolean saveAsNew)
at EDProfiler.EDPMainForm.Button_CreateNew_Click(Object sender, EventArgs e)
at System.Windows.Forms.Control.OnClick(EventArgs e)
at System.Windows.Forms.Button.OnClick(EventArgs e)
at System.Windows.Forms.Button.OnMouseUp(MouseEventArgs mevent)
at System.Windows.Forms.Control.WmMouseUp(Message& m, MouseButtons button, Int32 clicks)
at System.Windows.Forms.Control.WndProc(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.ButtonBase.WndProc(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.Button.WndProc(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.Control.ControlNativeWindow.OnMessage(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.Control.ControlNativeWindow.WndProc(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.NativeWindow.Callback(IntPtr hWnd, Int32 msg, IntPtr wparam, IntPtr lparam)

For you and everyone else getting this error, I've now fixed it. Please update and try again. Nothing else to do (let me know though).

amadeus1171 said:
What was this update for?

Constantly updating and fixing random bugs I notice in the new tool, as well as fixing this issue ^

[VR] Muskoka · Aug 13, 2018

Just updated, and saving a profile is no longer giving me an error, thank you very much.

drkaii · Aug 13, 2018

BETA TESTERS STILL REQUESTED (nobody responded yet [big grin])

Video:

[video=youtube;qYRYX5eu-LU]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYRYX5eu-LU[/video]

Also, finally a vid explaining the tone map things:

[video=youtube;drcrcklUD6U]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=drcrcklUD6U[/video]

varonica · Aug 13, 2018

I've downloaded ED profiler but I have no idea how to use this chat logger thingy, I don't like watching videos for instructions, it takes far longer than a short text explanation, I can't even tell, from the information supplied, if this chat logger is part of ED Profiler or not. Maybe the lack of testers is due to lack of easily accessible information?

Ok I seem to have found it, still a half an hour trying to work out what I was supposed to be doing. If it works as advertised it will be very useful.

Well it appeared I had everything set up correctly but nonetheless it never saved any files in the selected folder. Not sure what was going wrong but tried it both with the preceding LOG and without.

drkaii · Aug 13, 2018

varonica said:
I've downloaded ED profiler but I have no idea how to use this chat logger thingy, I don't like watching videos for instructions, it takes far longer than a short text explanation, I can't even tell, from the information supplied, if this chat logger is part of ED Profiler or not. Maybe the lack of testers is due to lack of easily accessible information?

Ok I seem to have found it, still a half an hour trying to work out what I was supposed to be doing. If it works as advertised it will be very useful.

Well it appeared I had everything set up correctly but nonetheless it never saved any files in the selected folder. Not sure what was going wrong but tried it both with the preceding LOG and without.

Hi, I highly highly doubt it (I think everyone's on holiday), I have put the information down in every possible way I can, from the help menu in the tool, to the text version of the instructions, to the tooltip, to the "How to Use.txt" included....

Please just try a bit harder. I don't know what else I can do, have you seen this? https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showt...via-local-chat-and-tool?p=6923406#post6923406

EDIT: saw your edits. If you want to work with me, we can figure out why it's not working. Up to you. Thanks for trying

varonica · Aug 13, 2018

drkaii said:
Hi, I highly highly doubt it (I think everyone's on holiday), I have put the information down in every possible way I can, from the help menu in the tool, to the text version of the instructions, to the tooltip, to the "How to Use.txt" included....

Please just try a bit harder. I don't know what else I can do, have you seen this? https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showt...via-local-chat-and-tool?p=6923406#post6923406

EDIT: saw your edits. If you want to work with me, we can figure out why it's not working. Up to you. Thanks for trying

Sorry the actual problem was in first getting it running, which is where you want it clearest. At first, because of this;

To test it you need EDProfiler

I thought it was a separate tool and not part of EDProfiler so I spent time looking for this "tool" in vain, and then I spotted the orange button in EDProfiler when I had a closer look.

However it doesn't appear to be picking up my local chat activity. Nothing appears in the logs folder or the tool so I don't know what the problem is, I am using Windows 10 in case that helps, have you tested it under Win10?

Oops a quick update, just managed to kill it by trying to create a new folder for the logs in case that was at issue, got an "unhandled exception" error.

The Chat Logs browser seems to be doing its thing alright so it is picking up stuff from ED local chat, just not recording the logs.

drkaii · Aug 13, 2018

Oh man. This is the one thing I hate about coding. When by all accounts everything should work, and it doesn't and it ends up being the smallest, hardest to find thing, that you somehow deleted, or changed, without realising.

I just...I don't know what to say. If the chat browser is working but the logger isn't, then I have no clue. Sure you are using the most up to date one? Any chance you can post the error message?

To be honest, nobody apart from you has shown any interest so maybe I'll just keep this tool for me, available if anyone wants it and it works for them, but I won't dedicate more time to this until ppl are around and can offer to beta test it

Alec Turner · Aug 13, 2018

Hey drkaii, I've download your chat log video to watch on the train tonight with a view to testing it sometime this week.

Wanna leave the feature in for a few more days so I can do that?
Can't swear I'll use it in the long term but it seems pretty cool and worth ironing the bugs out of in case others pick up on it in the future? (could be good for DW2).

drkaii · Aug 13, 2018

Thanks I appreciate it. I never said I'ld take it out, don't worry