get last comment not last line

The only other thing I can think of, is this… but I really don’t think its a good solution for this problem.

In your GetLastLine function ( or whatever you call your function to get the last line) you’ll notice a line of code that looks something like this:

Call SendMessageString(iHnd, EM_GETLINE, iLastLine - 2, strBuffer)

Notice the -2
This code is saying to retrieve the next to last line from the text, as the last line is always empty.

So, you could test each string that you receive from your GetLastLine function to see if it contains the character “:”. The existence of a “:” would tell you that the last line received contained a username ( username : Hello world) and so, is probably the full line of text. If the last line received did NOT contain a “:”, you could assume that you are only receiving the wrapped portion of the string. You could then write some code to get the text from one more line above ( -3). That would give you the text from the line above the previous line you received. Confused? I am……

But, doing it this way would assume that the text has only wrapped once, and that the wrapped text doesn’t contain a “:”.

That’s really all I can come up with. This topic has been discussed quite a bit here on the forum and no really fool proof way of doing it has been provided. Perhaps the methods mentioned by Departure in your other thread will yield a better way to do this.

I have one proposed a way to get ALL lines that have not been read before, as much it is possible as paltalk start cutting the lines from top when the room test reach a certaim size.
I have already proposed a solution for that.
Too lazy to search it, you do it 😛

Actually there is no need to delete all room text.
It is possible to delete from the top like paltalk does, and keep track of line count so nothing is ever missed.
I probably was lazy that time.

Don’t you say here winsock hooks don’t work anymore?

as chike said…. I was reffering to API hooking or code hook, BUT you can still hook winsock and capture the packets and parse them out for room/pm text, Only problem with using winsock hook for room text is you still need to parse, admittedly not as much parsing as you need for “lastLine” method but winsock hooking also brings a large detection rate from AV’s which would not make much sense for public applications, the last thing you want is users coming back accusing you of planting virus/trojan in your releases. I will be releasing some sources and tutorials about “hooking” and i am sure chike, string, loco and the other vb coders will convert and improve the code if they think it suits there needs..

I wont be at my normal machine till after the weekend, so I’m unable to test any code. But, if i understand exactly what your trying to do, your going about it the long way. I’m assuming all the code in red is code that isn’t working? In the future, enclose your code within the [*code] tags provided. Its so much easier to read.

In your GetLastLineTextChat function, You code looks like:

'get line text
Call SendMessageStr(hwnd, EM_GETLINE, lngCount - 3, ByVal strBuffer)
Call SendMessageStr(hwnd, EM_GETLINE, lngCount - 2, ByVal strBuffer2)
GetLastLineTextChat = strBuffer & vbNewLine & strBuffer2

I wouldn’t bother getting the line above ( -3) unless I needed to. Find out if your last line string contains a “:” or not, then, if it doesn’t, get the line above. Like:

'get line text
Call SendMessageStr(hwnd, EM_GETLINE, lngCount - 2, ByVal strBuffer2)
If InStr(1, strBuffer2, ": ", vbTextCompare) = 0 Then
Call SendMessageStr(hwnd, EM_GETLINE, lngCount - 3, ByVal strBuffer)
GetLastLineTextChat = strBuffer & vbNewLine & strBuffer2
Else
GetLastLineTextChat = strBuffer2
End If

I don’t think you need all the code in red at the bottom.