Hey all,
           Most (if not all) of you know how painful it is if your playing a fullscreen online multiplayer game and your friend would just like to have a little chat....
#%$%$^#^%@$%^#^%@^%@^%@$!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Im pleased to announce ThunderboltAllertor, a little program written in Delphi (Woo Hoo!!!, No more crappy runtime packages ) which will suppress all your conversations from annoying you, but discreetly letting you know that you have a friend on hold by a flashing Scroll Lock Light.

Percentage Completed: [10%]
Hopefully Ill have it finished by the end of the month. (Septemeber 2004)

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Why ThunderboltAllertor?
A unique name that will instantly spring up in someones mind. If your a Civil Defence or Air Raid Siren nut, you'll know where I got the name from!

Why Scroll Lock and not Num Lock or Caps Lock?
Since Caps and Num Locks are the most commonly used, I decided to use Scroll Lock because it's basically on almost every keyboard in the world and It will create less confusion when it's flashing.

Please post your questions and comments here, as Id like to hear them!

Justin Savidge

P.S. Im only going to support MSN Messenger 6.2 onwards because of the architectual differences in older versions. Sorry.

I hate to burst your bubble... but I think this has been done.

So????

The other person that did this wasn't a Plus! plugin anyway... So it doesn't matter at all

PS: Delphi r0x

btw, what does the actual scroll lock do?

On a normal keyboard, when you disable Num Lock and enable Scroll Lock, the arrows, Home/PgUp/End/PgDn functions of the keypad can be used (for example, in Excel).

If you have both Num Lock and Scroll Lock on, the keypad will follow the Num Lock function over the Scroll Lock one

hmm doesnt bother me. My sound card seems to surrpress the sound of the sign on/convo and yes the toast is seen but then it goes away. ill give this plugin a try tho.

Can you tell us for info? eg. if we can change between scroll/num/caps lock, how long does it flash ect.

This is definately something I'd be interested in, and I'm looking forward to it. Any chance of adding a PC speaker beep in there as well?

damnit.. my keyboard dosnt have a scroll lock key.. it would be awsome if you could flash the flock key on a ms multimedia keyboard

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Any chance of adding a PC speaker beep in there as well?

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Can you tell us more info? eg. If we can change between Scroll/Num/Caps lock, how long does it will flash? etc

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Slowly but steadilly getting there.

Sorry guys but it's the Scroll Num and Caps lights notification only. Thats enough for most people. The initial coding was absolute hell (That's why Ive cut back on most of the features ) I decided to make it flash indefinately until reset so if nature calls you can still see if someone replyed. Yes you can change between lights.

I will publish the source code only by email request.
Format: Delphi 7 (Built with Enterprise)
You will need the KeyboardLock component to compile and build this project. (Only if you plan on using source code. )

Project Status: [70%]
Beta testing at 80%!

hows it going Delphi Thunderbolt? id really like this, because its annoying when im playing diablo 2 and the popups come up and people try to talk to me
if it's ready id like to beta-test it if i can

yeh, count me in

OK Ill be truthful, Im starting to doubt ThunderboltAllertor. The architecture is a little more complex than I had originally thought. but Im not going to give up!

Because of this setback Ive knocked the progress back to 60%

Sorry

so hows it going now??? its been a while

1 month late? but im not rushing anything dude. just take your time. gonna be useful for me

Nice and usefull plugin, hope you'll get it done. Willing to beta test if needed.

Ok I think I have gotten somewhere:

I have downloaded the Delphi MSN SDK and am having a little trouble implementing it.

How can I get a timer to detect if chat windows have changed (by monitoring the chat scroll box) and if new chat windows have opened? Also if the windows have changed/opened, some code to suppress them.

Thanks in advance

Sorry for the delay.

i would love to have this plugin itd be so useful i play a game on superdudes called tsk2 it plays full screen and i got to jump from platform to platform now occassionally one of those toasts things pops up in from of my targeting grid for aiming my jump or in front of the platform im trying to jump to so i cant jump then i risk dying cause the timers running out so this would be really useful for me.

When is this going to be released then, it would be a very good plugin for me. I play lots of mp games.

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Originally posted by Lt.Col.DraGon
When is this going to be released then, it would be a very good plugin for me. I play lots of mp games.

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I'm guessing that this is gonna be set so it only flashes when your status is set to busy. If not could you fix it so you can select the status it does all that stuff at?

I would happily be a beta tester.

This would be a great plug-in for plus! and I would download as it would be good if I was to ever play online games such as Age of Empires (sorry for expressing my opinion a bit late!) Keep working at it mate and I am sure you will get it completed.

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Originally posted by riahc4
It looks like Delphi is kinda stuck not only on other projects but also on the coding...

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I am extremely sorry that I have sort of dropped off the forums, but a heap of things came up and it sort of kind of got knocked off my to do list. I will try to see if I can squeeze it in somewhere.

I am very sorry. Please for give me!

FYI, the word is spelt alerter, not allertor

Sounds like a gr8 idea to me. Can the friend automatically get a msg that "{Ur Name Here} is playing a game" or preferably "{Ur Name here} is playing {Ur Game Here}"
The name can be our online name and the game name ..... we can manually type

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Originally posted by John Anderton
Sounds like a gr8 idea to me. Can the friend automatically get a msg that "{Ur Name Here} is playing a game" or preferably "{Ur Name here} is playing {Ur Game Here}"
The name can be our online name and the game name ..... we can manually type

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Sounds like a gr8 idea to me. Can the friend automatically get a msg that "{Ur Name Here} is playing a game" or preferably "{Ur Name here} is playing {Ur Game Here}"
The name can be our online name and the game name ..... we can manually type

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FYI, the word is spelt alerter, not allertor

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This has been going on for quite a while now so I'm just wundering, how far is it????

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Originally posted by riahc4

hmm doesnt bother me. My sound card seems to surrpress the sound of the sign on/convo and yes the toast is seen but then it goes away. ill give this plugin a try tho.

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Originally posted by riahc4

hmm doesnt bother me. My sound card seems to surrpress the sound of the sign on/convo and yes the toast is seen but then it goes away. ill give this plugin a try tho.

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u mean u cant hear it? thats cos msn goes to busy when u run a full screen game

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Me again.

OK, here's the low-down.


AS SOON AS I FINISH my exams, I will start Thunderbolt Allertor. I promise!

Or may I be condemned to g33ks hell lots of women and bullies hahahahaha

I should be able to start by Wednesday. And Im learning C++ in addition to Delphi.

how much % are u done now?

Im still alive! And I hope to have something solid by christmas at the very latest!

Merry Christmas!

Sorry for the delays, but my exams were f*cking murder!
I passed maths! Yay!