This is going to be a quite complex question.

One of my contacts has expressed an interest in a random number generator for Messenger, that can be used in a nick. To be precise, the ideal behaviour of such a plugin would be to generate a new random number for each instance, even in nicks (which would therefore change with every message).

After analysing the API, I realised that Msg+ tags, if they can be used and, more importantly, interpreted in nicks, then that means that, in a busy convo, the person's name would change frequently, causing the MSN server to boot him from the server. I then thought, why not do it at the destination? But then I found out from the API that tags don't work that way. I then thought it could be done with a custom tag.

Is it possible to do such things with Msg+ the way it is now? If not, would Patchou consider adding such a feature in the next Plus! release? If the answer to both is no, then I'll need some help figuring out the Messenger API itself.

PS: This post got a bit long didn't it?

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Originally posted by raceprouk
(which would therefore change with every message).

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I'm not sure you fully understood what I meant. To clarify:

Imagine a special tag, put in the nick in raw form, and parsed by the client each time the name is actually displayed i.e.
      On server: <blah1> [tag] <blah2>
      On client screen: <blah1> <rand#> <blah2>

My guess is it'll be on the difficult side to implement.

but those random number and random tags would have to be in the side of the one who sees them.....

for example you have as nick: RaceProuk [!RanTag]

and those random Tags would depend on your contacts PC, also for the Random Numbers

And again it depends on whether the contacts have MP! or not.

And who'd like to have a random number in their nick?

Client-side isn't a good way to solve things...

One of my contacts has expressed an interest in such a feature, and when I think about it, it would be possible to arrange it so that the randomly generated numbers were sent with the message text. However, this would then cause problems with commands.

I think I'm just going to drop the idea, as I only know one person who thought of it, and it seems an idea doomed to failure.

Oh well, more time to work on other things...

Yes, the feature seems very useless to me, specially when thinking of the amount of requirements for it to work...

Well, more time to study *sigh*...

yeah i don't really found it a good use

and it's too complicated to make it work..... but hey this is the plgu-in section...

maybe some programmer could be interested