Maxmackey

I am in need of a rather simple, yet possibly complicated program.

I need a program that will open a file, scan its text for a certain line and then emit a noise, if that text exists.

If the text does not exist, I need the program to close the file, open it, and repeat.









The file that would be being scanned, updates every time it is closed, with new text. Therefore, there will always be new text.
So I would like a program to continually scan a designated file over and over, and make a sound, if a string of text exists then keep repeating until I tell it to stop.



Strings of text that would make sounds are:
Selected Son of Gigaroth
Selected Valkor the Impaler
Selected General Reklar Plaguebearer.


Also just finding: "Gigaroth", "Impaler", and "Plaguebearer" would be fine.


PLEASE POST IF INTERESTED and set a estimated price.

Grich

I smell homework....

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Maxmackey

Haha! Not homework, fortunately. I just like to completely dominate certain monster spawns in a game. They respawn every 6-12 hours, and once their respawn timer starts, they can show up any time from 1 minute to 8 hours. So instead of me sitting at the computer for an extended length of time, watching for these monsters, I would like a program to make an audible notification.

Sane

As you guessed, this is quite simple. And I enjoy crack change. So I could do it in C and give you rights to the source, for 10 bucks via PayPal.

For an extra 10, I could make it read from a configuration file to determine:
- Location of target file
- Number of seconds between file checks
- How many beeps it makes
- Which lines of text it should beep for

But if you don't want to spend an extra 10, you could still change those things by modifying and recompiling the original program.

I'll need a sample file to test it, if you decide to throw the money at me. dr.sane@gmail.com is my Paypal.

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Sane

I just saw your other thread and noticed there's a bit more to your problem that you neglected to explain.

It needs to remember the last line it read in the log file, since you don't want it to beep for anything that was already in the log. This will involve some more file manipulation, and I'd ask for an added 5.

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Watchman

You two have just openly discussed hacking a game, and the latter agreed to do this for payment. Consider yourself both reported. Have a nice day.

kruptof

what game

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Watchman

The MMO that houses the 3 boss mobs originally mentioned...

Freaky Chris

would you really consider it hacking, personally yes i would in a sense and unfortunatly you can't report someone for hacking because it is perfectly legal, infact most of the people here at PFO are hackers.

If you mean cracking then maybe so. But its a paid job offer that doesn't really relate to the game as such when you consider the fact that the text file could be for anything.

Anyway who would you report them to and what would happen, im interested?
Chris

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Sane

Watchman, your skewed definition of hacking makes me cringe. He wants a program that emits a beep if it finds text in a log file. Now think for a second... Ready? What criminal charge would be laid upon me? More to the point, what TOS violation is being breached? These are subsidiary automations, nothing more. Not illegal, not hacking, no rules broken, not even unethical. Now stop wasting my time.

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