can you implement an auto responder into Messenger plus! please Patchou? the same as what Messenger Discovery has. ive searched everywhere for one but cant find one and i think people who dont want MD or cant get it to work should be able to have one, like me. Messenger Plus! already automatically responds to Ping! commands, why cant it automatically respond to anything you choose? i think it should.

for example if someone says "hello" i could set my responder to automatically say "hello" back. it should have a filter so you can choose for which contacts it works for and also to choose when the responder is on, like if you're away you maybe wouldnt want it to be on so it doesnt confuse people when you say "hello" back to them while you're not even at your computer, hehe. but you should still be able to have the responder on even if you're away if you want.

the responder should also be able to reply with commands, like if you want your responder to reply with the (!WAT) command when someone asks you "what song are you listening to?" then it should do that and also should work, if you know what i mean. so you can set the responder to reply with commands aswell, and the commands should work instead of sending the command how it is. (like it should actually respond with the song you're listening to instead of responding with (!WAT) if you know what i mean)

(i think you should also be able to reply with / commands if you set them, so you could set your own special code that it responds to which puts you on "Away" for example, or any command like that. like for example if someone would say the code ¿away¿ to me, the responder would reply with /away which would put my status on away.. and the same with any other / command there is)

Yes, it is possible with the Messenger Plus API, very possible. TB made a plugin that did this...But since MD already has this, if you want that feature just use that...at some point Plus! will include it someday probably...

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Originally posted by Jaguar

i think you should also be able to reply with / commands if you set them, so you could set your own special code that it responds to which puts you on "Away" for example

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MD doesnt work for me and never has.. that's why i cant use that, and i dont want to use it just for one feature anyway

well if i was at a different computer for example, i could change my msn status on my home computer by just sending a command, or sign it out or whatever.

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Originally posted by Jaguar

well if i was at my work computer for example, i could change my msn status at my home computer by just sending a command, or sign it out or whatever.

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doesnt mean that the auto responder shouldnt be able to do that

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Originally posted by Anubis
Yes, it is possible with the Messenger Plus API, very possible.

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TB made a plugin that did this...

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I believed it used a similar fashion to the /yeahright command...that auto-responds on a new message...therefore I assumed it was possible with the MP API...

Hey, that sounds good m8 I would like to have a feature like this. Work on this one, I can't wait

-At0miC

thanx tim i hope it becomes a feature

come on patchou, do you think you will ever make this feature? it isnt such a big thing is it?

i would like this feature to be added it sounds quite cool.

yeah, me too. have you read this thread Patchou? what do you think? if no-one makes this as a plugin then would you consider making it as a feature in msg plus!?

Yea, I agree

if i had the skills and abilities which i dont i would do it. but i only know a little bit of java and a little visual basic so unfortunately its beyond my abilities. but if theres anything i can do to help this happen let me know.

you can help by getting Patchou to implement this as a feature, hehe

come on Patchou, have you read this thread yet? tell me what you think, please

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Originally posted by Jaguar
you can help by getting Patchou to implement this as a feature, hehe

come on Patchou, have you read this thread yet? tell me what you think, please

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Although I would want this functionality as well, it's not likely Patchou will do this. He has been asked about this before..

"Now, about your request, I could have agreed at some point but not anymore: I've had enough with people complaining about Spywares and Trojans distributed with Plus!, I don't want to do anything that could lead to real spywares. I know that's pretty radical but that's the reality of public softwares. People download anything, with caring for the consequences and accuses the developers (me here) when there is a problem... that's just life"

So because of the security risks and dumb people not knowing what they install or download we get hold out on this feature. Sad but true.

so are you saying this will never be implemented? or is it just it wont be implemented until people get smarter about what they are installing?

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Originally posted by Hordo
Although I would want this functionality as well, it's not likely Patchou will do this. He has been asked about this before..

"Now, about your request, I could have agreed at some point but not anymore: I've had enough with people complaining about Spywares and Trojans distributed with Plus!, I don't want to do anything that could lead to real spywares. I know that's pretty radical but that's the reality of public softwares. People download anything, with caring for the consequences and accuses the developers (me here) when there is a problem... that's just life"

So because of the security risks and dumb people not knowing what they install or download we get hold out on this feature. Sad but true.

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p.s. give me the link to that thread so i can read it myself please

I agree with jaguar, even I don't now him personal.
Anyway, what do you mean with securtiy risks? hmzz, just like when you say hello there to someone, that would also be a security risk then, cool..

Anyway Patchou, put it in Messenger Plus , or u will suck lol

yeah i dont get how this features a security risk either it makes no sense someone please explain this as to how its a security risk.

Patchou?

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Originally posted by Jaguar
Patchou?

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Ok, I'll stop. But i don't get it, cause he replies to other threads that are only hours old and have less serious topics (for example: this and this), but he doesn't reply to this topic which is a serious request, it's way older and lots of people have said they like the request and thinks it's a good idea..

Ok ok I'm here... doing this kind of thing would only be possible if I improved the plugin API to filter every message that's received but I'm still not sure it would be a security wisedecision... maybe later, I don't know. Auto-responder things are often nice little toys foracouple of days and then are completely useless... Plus! already have auto-messages for statuses, I think it's enough for what most people would want to do with this kind of feature .

Hehe, thank you for replying, even though it's bad news for me I'm glad I got to hear something from you.

I didn't think of how you would have to filter every message that's recieved, I don't do programming. But isn't this what the word filter feature already does anyway? It filters words in other contacts messages and changes them.

I don't know how it could be a security risk, but that's probably cause i don't know that much stuff about programming. Maybe you could explain how it's a security risk , but it's ok if you don't have time cause I've heard how busy you always are, hehe.

I dissagree with it becoming a useless toy after a couple of days, atleast for me I know it would be usefull for as long as i keep using Messenger. I suppose that's just my opinion, but even if it would be useless for some people there would still be a lot of people that would want it knowing that it would be usefull to them. For example with the filter, I use it a lot, I have a lot of words that I filter, but I don't know anyone else that uses it.. I don't think that many people do, but that doesn't mean that it's a completely useless feature, cause there are still people out there that use it and appreciate it.

So thank you for replying, even though it was bad news for me. I'll just hope that someone will make an Auto Responder plugin.

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Originally posted by Patchou
Ok ok I'm here... doing this kind of thing would only be possible if I improved the plugin API to filter every message that's received but I'm still not sure it would be a security wisedecision... maybe later, I don't know. Auto-responder things are often nice little toys foracouple of days and then are completely useless... Plus! already have auto-messages for statuses, I think it's enough for what most people would want to do with this kind of feature .

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Yeah, that's a great example of what you can do with an auto responder. Exactly what I had in mind. There are so many things you can do. It's up to you imagination to find out what.

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Originally posted by Patchou
Ok ok I'm here... doing this kind of thing would only be possible if I improved the plugin API to filter every message that's received but I'm still not sure it would be a security wisedecision... maybe later, I don't know. Auto-responder things are often nice little toys foracouple of days and then are completely useless... Plus! already have auto-messages for statuses, I think it's enough for what most people would want to do with this kind of feature .

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adding an auto-responder that reacts on some specific words could be interesting, I agree.... I'll add that to my very long todo list

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Originally posted by Patchou
adding an auto-responder that reacts on some specific words could be interesting, I agree.... I'll add that to my very long todo list

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Originally posted by Patchou
adding an auto-responder that reacts on some specific words could be interesting, I agree.... I'll add that to my very long todo list

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Originally posted by Chaotic_Shield

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Originally posted by Patchou
adding an auto-responder that reacts on some specific words could be interesting, I agree.... I'll add that to my very long todo list

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I'm starting to think that you might give WDZ a run for his money Patch.

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Originally posted by Patchou
adding an auto-responder that reacts on some specific words could be interesting, I agree.... I'll add that to my very long todo list

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Originally posted by Patchou
adding an auto-responder that reacts on some specific words could be interesting, I agree.... I'll add that to my very long todo list

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Originally posted by Jaguar
do mean an auto-responder that replies to words/sentences that you set up yourself, don't you? You would have to set up every single word/sentence that you would want the auto-responder to reply to. (Just like you have to set up the word

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Yeah, but by the way Patchou said "some specific words" it sounded like he wanted to specify the words himself, and since that's not the point of the auto-responder i was just stating the right point to make sure Patchou understood (which I'm sure he did in the first place, but i was just making sure).