[sldev] Chat and IM Line History - Patch

[Fairlight]

I just built version slviewer-src-20070112a of the source using VC2005  
Express, adapting your patch to the new source version.

Very nice patch, thanks a lot, Zi!

Btw.. I didn't see any limit on how many backlines are stored. I don't  
think it'll be an issue, but if you chat a LOT and leave SL running for  
half a year, the chat history will take up quite some memory, I assume ^.^

You might wanna submit this patch to LL, btw... I'd SO love to see this  
implemented. (Hear me, robla? *grins)

Keep up the good work,
  Fairlight!


Current tests look good, it works as intended in main chat and IM history.

On Sat, 13 Jan 2007 02:06:24 +0100, Zi Ree <tinacloud at gmx.de> wrote:

> Hi SL-Developers!
>
> Today I started digging deeper into the code of the Second Life Viewer,  
> and to
> make myself familiar with how it works, I decided to implement a small  
> pet
> feature of mine: chat line history. Coming from the Linux and IRC  
> background
> I desperately need a way to recall my previously written lines, without
> having to copy & paste them from some scrollback buffer. So I loaded the
> Viewer source into my favourite project tool and started to work on the  
> code.
>
> It took me about half a day to get it done, and I hope it doe swork on  
> other
> people’s machines, too. I decided to go for CTRL UP / CTRL DOWN as  
> history
> recall keys, because the normal cursor keys are used for walking when the
> chat line is empty, and thus are out of the question.
>
> Please try my patch and tell me if it worked for you or if I messed up
> somewhere :)
>
> Download >>  
> http://zi.furhome.net/downloads/patches/chat_line_history.patch
>
> Have fun!
> Zi!
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