I am one of those people who doesn't like to close the chat convo window all the time but I also hate the fact that it's so simple to just press the "esc" key to exit the window. And I've been having a bad habit of lately of doing so, even though I like to keep all my chat windows opened.

Anyways, the idea is.. is it possible to assign a single key or perhaps the "esc" key or any other combination to minimize the window instead of closing it?

Something very simple.. I guess?

do u mean all at once (hide them) or  close them cos theres a plugin were the box shuts after 30
seconds

i think this is possible

i'll get to work on it

I can get this in Phoenix in, I don't know, the next 5 minutes?
(Already subclassing the convo windows: I just catch the Esc key and minimise, not letting Messenger get at the message ).

Yeah I press a key and the window is MINIMIZED not closed Msg_Plus_Freak.. I think I said it in my first post.

So how far are you guys getting through with this?

Thanks ALOT for your help guys!

I tried this just now, and for some reason couldn't get it to work. I'll have another look though: probably missing something obvious.

yea i just had a go and it doesn't seem to send any key press events, it must send them to a child window or something

Oh damn.. that's sad to hear.

So does this mean it's not possible? Or are you guys looking at alternative methods at getting this to be done?

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Oh damn.. that's sad to hear.

So does this mean it's not possible? Or are you guys looking at alternative methods at getting this to be done?

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I tried, but it still isn't working.

Oh man.. that sucks.

So anyone else wanna give it a shot? If they don't mind.. please.

I'd love this alot.

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So anyone else wanna give it a shot?

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If your subclassing doesen't work just do it the easy way. Set akeyboard hook for Escape. when it's pressed check the top most windowhandle and compare to a list of enumed Handles of the known Conversation Windows. and minimize the window, otherwise just exit the function. Simple but hey it works

Thing is, the subclassing should work. When I use Spy++, it catches the WM_KEYDOWN event properly. It just doesn't when I subclass.
As for a keyboard hook, last time I tried that, I couldn't get it to work at all.

i was unable to catch WM_KEYDOWN on the imwindow

It doesn't go to the IMWindow: it goes to the DirectUIHWND inside. And I still can't catch it!

Thanks for the effort put in guys. I really appreciate it. Still hoping for the best.

OK, here is MDE (MSN Disable ESC)* v0.9 beta



I don't care if somebody else includes this functionality in another plugin, a friend of mine wanted this too so I made it.

This is an "unofficial" release (even tough it works perfectly fine) because I'll add some more stupid stuff later (about box and crap like that), so don't freakin' post this anywhere else.

Download here.



*Hmmm... It should be "Messenger Disable ESC" now that I think about it, but to change it I should start Delphi again and recompile it and it's 3 a.m. and I don't feel like doing that




EDIT: To install it, simply open the .zip file with something like WinZip or WinRAR, extract the .dll file to MsgPlus\Plugins folder and restart Messenger.

you can always try Good ol' windows key + m?
Granted, it'll minimise all your windows but from what I gather they probably already will be

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you can always try Good ol' windows key + m?
Granted, it'll minimise all your windows but from what I gather they probably already will be

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Nice litle plugin.. . Well done lopardo.. ..

THANKS ALOT lopardo!! great great job

=)

thats a nice plugin altho i wudnt use it cuz i dont have a prob pressin esc buttons lol

The problem isn't pressing the esc button.

The problem is that it's convienient to press the esc button but at the price of you losing your conversation window, some people like to read up their messages. So they prefer minimizing it. And pressing Esc to minimize is good.