History Events plugin

[pescuma]

CAUTION: THIS IS BETA QUALITY SOFTWARE. IT CAN ERASE ALL YOUR HISTORY. USE AT YOUR OWN RISK.

This is a service plugin that allows adding/reading new event types to history. The main idea is a service that plugins use to add events to history and that the *srmm plugins can use to show then.

It also provides options to remove events from history in some pre-configured intervals. This part is not well tested and can cause big problems. To erase the old events it will, after 1 min of miranda start, go through all events and check which to remove. This is done slowly and in other thread (to avoid too much CPU usage), but this means that the event may take longer than the selected value to be removed.

It also support Variables plugin (needs the latest version)

This plugin requires at least Miranda 0.7


To do:
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- Remove events by number of events
- Add 6 months and 1 year to the list to delete entries
- Change some plugins to use this service
- Add support in *srmm
- Add support for HTML
- Add support for color/font formats


Issues:
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Please report problems at http://code.google.com/p/pescuma/issues/list

To report bugs, please add the pdb to the plugins folder.


Download:
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Ansi: http://pescuma.org/miranda/historyevents.zip
Unicode: http://pescuma.org/miranda/historyeventsW.zip

Sources: SVN at https://developer.berlios.de/projects/mgoodies/


Changelog:
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. 0.0.0.8
+ Added option to return a copy of the icon in GETICON service

. 0.0.0.7
+ Allow setting history timestamp on addToHistory
+ Allow adding to meta too on addToHistory

. 0.0.0.6
* Fix for get event text

. 0.0.0.5
+ Added option to get event struct by event type
+ Added option to register using an icolib icon
* Now options page is ordered by name (with core types at top)

. 0.0.0.4
* Fix to work with old version of variables too

. 0.0.0.3
+ Added variables support
+ Added option: only log if message window open

. 0.0.0.2
* DLL needed to be renamed
* Bug fixes
+ Added 6 months, 1 year, max 10 and max 100 to options to delete history

. 0.0.0.1
+ Initial version

[andrewabc]

Put the plugin in a test build. Is there supposed to be only one options page that only has options for message, url, and file transfer?

EDIT:
Getting history keeper plugin now :P

Hmm, I added history keeper plugin but miranda wont start. Yep miranda won't start with historykeeper plugin. Maybe because it is a new profile with no history?

[pescuma]

I just re-uploaded history keeper. Yes, it had that bug. Sorry, last minute changes :S

[pescuma]

. 0.0.0.2
* DLL needed to be renamed
* Bug fixes
+ Added 6 months, 1 year, max 10 and max 100 to options to delete history


CAUTION: In this version some internal (and external) changes have beeing made, so you need to update by hand (updater won't do it) and follow this steps:
1. Go into Options->History->Events and set all 'Keep in database' options to 'Forever'
2. Exit miranda
3. Delete historyevents.dll from plugins folder
4. Copy aa_historyevents.dll to plugins folder
5. Start miranda and re-set needed options in Options->History->Events

Be extra carefull with the 'Max XX entries' options, beacause they were not really well tested

[Alf]

. 0.0.0.2
* DLL needed to be renamed

Thx for the update. Just curious, why this (strange?) name change?

[Schelm]

To prevent updater to update the plugin, I guess.

[Drugwash]

No, it's the plug-in loading order at startup, that matters. Same issue as with ServicesList.
Maybe a better renaming scheme would be using numbers (000_<name>.dll - 999_<name>.dll), before a better solution will be found and implemented to the core.

[omniwolf]

CAUTION: In this version some internal (and external) changes have beeing made, so you need to update by hand (updater won't do it) and follow this steps:
1. Go into Options->History->Events and set all 'Keep in database' options to 'Forever'
2. Exit miranda
3. Delete historyevents.dll from plugins folder
4. Copy aa_historyevents.dll to plugins folder
5. Start miranda and re-set needed options in Options->History->Events

do we need to follow these steps if we haven't installed the history events plugin before?

[pescuma]

Nope (in that case the entry Options->History->Events would not exist)

[pescuma]

. 0.0.0.3
+ Added variables support
+ Added option: only log if message window open


It now also support Variables plugin. BUT you need to use this mod:
- http://pescuma.mirandaim.ru/miranda/variables.zip
- http://pescuma.mirandaim.ru/miranda/variablesW.zip
it adds an option to use temporary variables. The patch is here (I already sent it to UnregistereD):
- http://pescuma.mirandaim.ru/miranda/variables.patch