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Contact Name Colours Depending on Status by TedoDude on 03-19-2005 at 09:53 AM
Would it be possible to implement that if the contact is say "Online" then his / her contact name colour would be green, Offline red, etc.
(Apologies if afore mentioned, I did do a search 
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Thanx
RE: Contact Name Colours Depending on Status by Sypher on 03-19-2005 at 11:04 AM
Maybe it's possible with a plugin?
I don't know if the Plugin API supports coloring the contactlist and reading user statusses...
RE: Contact Name Colours Depending on Status by Dempsey on 03-19-2005 at 11:08 AM
quote:The Plus! plugin API doesnt support it no, but it would be a very useful feature. It's possible to get a contact's status using the Messenger API, but afaik theres no way to change their name colours, Plus! itself would have to do this.
Originally posted by Sypher
I don't know if the Plugin API supports coloring the contactlist and reading user statusses...
RE: Contact Name Colours Depending on Status by Snake on 03-19-2005 at 01:03 PM
recommend it for next vertion!
You got my Vote! 
RE: Contact Name Colours Depending on Status by TedoDude on 03-19-2005 at 01:29 PM
Thanx for your replies, shame it could not be done with a plugin or I would look into doing so. Maybe it could be in the next version? Patchou?
RE: Contact Name Colours Depending on Status by albert on 03-20-2005 at 12:39 AM
it sound cool but I still belive it would be even cooler to put the colors depending of your groups!! who agrees?
RE: Contact Name Colours Depending on Status by Cee-estee on 03-20-2005 at 01:28 AM
You can do it by group, but you have to do each contact by hand.
Mine are sorted by gender. Pink=girls, blue=boys. 
RE: Contact Name Colours Depending on Status by mwe99 on 03-20-2005 at 01:31 AM
quote:
Originally posted by TedoDude
Would it be possible to implement that if the contact is say "Online" then his / her contact name colour would be green, Offline red, etc.
(Apologies if afore mentioned, I did do a search
Thanx
Yeah but the little MSN dude guy is red/green but would be a good idea to have the writing in it too
RE: Contact Name Colours Depending on Status by albert on 03-20-2005 at 01:36 AM
quote:
Originally posted by Cee-estee
You can do it by group, but you have to do each contact by hand.
Mine are sorted by gender. Pink=girls, blue=boys.
it would take too much time to do..
maybe when i have nothing to do.. oh wait.. I got nothing to do.. im on it RE: Contact Name Colours Depending on Status by wrex on 03-31-2005 at 12:37 PM
I would love this option! Nothing outrageous, but just simple
online: black
away/brb/lunch: grey
Or something like that. Obviously Plus! would allow further customisatoin, but that's as far as I'd like it to go for me.
I find the new MSN 7 needs this feature even more than 6.x because the status of each person doesn't seem to stand out as much anymore.
Another similar option that I'd like would be to group by status
Online
Away/Brb/Lunch(/busy?)
Offline
Just little ideas that would save me having to look through a list of 20 contacts, most of which are not even at their computer.