Forums Feature Suggestions reload logs feature

• 42.Added reload logs feature to logs dialog, works with channel and
      chat windows. Loads up to the maximum window buffer value
      specified in the options/other dialog.

I think this is a good feature, but I feel the amount of lines loaded should be settable. Also if more than one log is loaded into the window it should tell you so and the newfile points.

This feature is also -extremely- slow if there are many logs in the directory.

I haven't spied on what mIRC is doing exactly, but I suspect it's enumerating all the files in the directory and parsing the dates for the latest one. Right now I have 2200 logs in my main log folder, so mIRC freezes for about 5 seconds after I join a channel or open a query. I would suggest that mIRC try making blind attempts at finding the most recent log, by checking for today's log and then yesterday's log before resorting to a full directory search.

I think mIRC should also display the date or week or month information (if logging by date/week/month) of the log being displayed. This can either be gathered from the filename or from the Session information present at the first or last line of the file.

- Raccoon

Time to clean out your log dir maybe?

I have always had a scripted feature that showed the last 10 lines from the current day's log if it exists. It works very similarly in functionality, but doesnt have to enumerate any kind of list because it only works with the current day.

P.S. I was about to post the script and decided against it because of how horribly ugly it was. I wrote it long ago :P