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When I’m ingame with games such as Left 4 Dead 2, I often want to save chat from game lobbies, or during the game itself. However, it’s often incredibly difficult, requiring alt-tabbing out of the game, and this isn’t really feasible when in the middle of a round.

I’ve written this program, which monitors the contents of the Windows Clipboard, and saves any new content automatically. The idea being, you start the application before you launch a game, and let it run in the background. When ingame, you simply copy chat into your clipboard. The program will then automatically log it, and every minute, write to a log file on the hard drive. That way, there is no need to alt-tab or otherwise leave the game.

When finished, simply close the program, and access/read the log file. I’ve been testing this for the last day or so, and it seems to work fine without any crashes. I should note that it uses an MD5 implementation available here. I’m keeping the program closed-source for now, but if people want the code to verify there isn’t anything malicious going on, I may release it later.

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