cant keep up with the chat log...

[donth8me]

I have seriously been programming in C# for less than a month. Moved from PHP and have been moving along really well. I'm doing my first program for wow which reads the chat memory.

I had a little trouble with figuring out where, in the 60 messages that wow holds in memory, to start looking for change when new chat is stored in the memory. What I did was have my program /say a random 4 digit string and then start reading the chat memory starting at the first log and then moving up until I get to the 4 digit string that was input. One problem with that is if someone chats before my program has a chance to find that 4 digit string then it doesn't set the multiplier correctly.

My main problem, and the reason I'm typing this is... I can't keep up with what multiplier it's on. If not much is being said in chat then all is good but if I step into trade chat then I lose the correct multiplier. I even juiced up my CPU usage an extra 50% by using a timer in C# that checks the next chat log for a change every 20 milliseconds. Am I going about this all wrong? What direction should I take because a program of this magnitude shouldn't use more than 10% processor power.

[donth8me]

After hacking away at it I found a nice way to keep track. Just save each chat log to a text file every 10 seconds or so and before you save it to the text file just make a string variable that contains the entire contents of the text file. Then check that variable with IndexOf and if it is -1 then you know it is a new message to save. If it is a new string then check if it is the chat type you are looking for, if so do what you need to it. I have made it run on 4 WoWs at the same time and it doesn't even push past 1% process power.

[dook123]

http://www.mmowned.com/forums/wow-me...s-3-2-0-a.html

I am sure you are doing something like this but it sounds like since you are new you can appreciate this code. I modified the code from that post for my purposes really easily. Sends whispers to my msn messenger

-Duke