To the devs: I apologize if this isn't in the correct forum in your eyes, I just figured that it's mostly roleplayers that care to keep chatlogs, which is why I placed this in the Order forum. Feel free to move it to Player Customizations if you feel it necessary.
Alright, so I've been thinking about making a simple program that will automatically copy your chat logs from the Logs folder to a folder of your choosing so that you don't have to do it yourself if you wish to keep them for whatever reason, else you'd lose them once the old logs folder is cleaned.
I'm making it for a few friends and myself, but the over-all interest in such a program will dictate how thoroughly I bug-test it and how user-friendly I try to make it.
The general idea on how I plan to have it run is as follows:
- Program is either launched in conjunction with launcher.exe via Istaria's shortcut, or is launched before Istaria is launched.
- It will then watch for istaria.exe to show up and get its process ID (So it could differentiate between multiple logins). From here it will sit and do absolutely nothing other than watch the state of said process.
- When this process shuts down (if you log out, or crash for example), the program will be triggered to make a backup of the chat log.
- The program will then ask if you wish to re-name the backup and wait ~20 seconds. If you either tell it no or the time elapses, it simply closes. If you say yes, it will ask you for a name, rename the file, and close.
Anyway, I'm just curious what the interest may be as I'm not going to spend more than a few days on this if only myself and a few friends use it xD. Feel free to ask any questions you may have.