5 messages in com.googlegroups.google-desktop-developerRe: Msn Chatlogs Plug-in?| From | Sent On | Attachments |
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| Mutant Dogs | 09 Jul 2005 09:37 | |
| Google Employee | 13 Jul 2005 12:11 | |
| Mutant Dogs | 14 Jul 2005 04:04 | |
| Tim Browse | 29 Jul 2005 05:32 | |
| xunh...@gmail.com | 16 Aug 2005 02:15 |
| Subject: | Re: Msn Chatlogs Plug-in? |
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| From: | xunh...@gmail.com (xunh...@gmail.com) |
| Date: | 08/16/2005 02:15:19 AM |
| List: | com.googlegroups.google-desktop-developer |
I've been trying to find a good MSN chat plugin too, yet by far I haven't found it. The one in the sample is still there, and is still producing unsatisfactory results.
Actually, they have included the MSN chat feature in the official Chinese version of GDS, which seems to produce good results. However, this feature in Chinese version cannot index chat histories. In other words, it only deals with the chats that take place after the installation of GDS.
I don't know whether there is some political reason for this problem. But in fact, I thought about writting this plugin myself but felt that this could be awfully difficult, mainly because of the structure of MSN chat history files. Although the files are in XML format and you can easily pick out the chat information from them, records from different session are mixed up and you need to write code to group them. What's more, it is hard to mark the location by which earlier chats have been indexed.
The approach used in the sample plugin is a reasonable solution to this problem. But I did not understant why it failed to reach accurate results, and could not find a way to improve it.
Tim Browse wrote:
Google Employee wrote:
The Developer SDK includes a sample that does this.
It may have changed since I last looked at this, but the sample got conversation indices wrong, so produced garbled chat results.
The lack of a decent MSN chat client GDS plug-in is finally bugging me enough to write one myself, which I would also make index old chat histories (the XML files).
My question is: is anyone already working on one - do I need to bother?
Also, I'm kind of curious why there seem to be decent plug-ins for most other chat clients, but not MSN. Is there some political reason for this? (I don't just mean from Google, I mean from anyone.)
Tim