Hey I rarely use the "Out To Lunch" status because I have a custom eating status. Anyways cant a plugin made so that it can detect between a selected hours it can change it automatically to "Out To Breakfast" or "Out To Dinner" because "Out To Lunch" at 8PM just sounds wrong to me and I never use it.

i like this idea!

does anyone who knows about this know if its hard?

why not just stick to custom statuses? they're there for a reason

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Originally posted by riahc4
Hey I rarely use the "Out To Lunch" status because I have a custom eating status. Anyways cant a plugin made so that it can detect between a selected hours it can change it automatically to "Out To Breakfast" or "Out To Dinner" because "Out To Lunch" at 8PM just sounds wrong to me and I never use it.

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Originally posted by multimillion2k
That would be a nifty feature, but at the moment it's not possible because it would require your contact to install the patch/plugin as well - if they don't have it, no matter what time of day it is or how many meals you're out to your contact's list will still show you as being out to lunch!

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You can use the scheduler in plus to change your status at certain times of the day.

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Originally posted by Madman
You can use the scheduler in plus to change your status at certain times of the day.

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Originally posted by Supersonicdarky
that's not what he meant

what he needs is a scheduler that changes the status pre-set at sertain times of day, not change the status which he has because he doesn't east at the EXACT same time every day

but it would be easier if you just had 3-4 presets and used a different one everytime:

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Originally posted by riahc4
And it wouldnt require Plus! or anything else because its a custom status which (I think) dont require the other person to have Plus!.

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And to use a plugin you need plus!

And to see the plugin's special status you need the plugin

Why not just make a custom status and let the task scheduler change your status

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Originally posted by Madman

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Originally posted by riahc4
And it wouldnt require Plus! or anything else because its a custom status which (I think) dont require the other person to have Plus!.

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Plus custom statuses do require the other person to have plus. Other wise they see {Status tag} in your name.
I dont really see the point of this plugin when the same effect can be acheived by using 3-4 custom statuses

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Originally posted by Ezra
And to use a plugin you need plus!
And to see the plugin's special status you need the plugin
Why not just make a custom status and let the task scheduler change your status

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What you're asking for has complications.

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Originally posted by riahc4
Why waste time making 3-4 other statuses when one plugin automatically detects the time of day and by clicking "Out to Lunch" changes it automatically? What part of that do you NOT understand?

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How about you just use "Away" for now hmm? It's generic enough.

Facts:

Messenger Plus! will be needed IF this is a plugin, based on where this topic has been created, it should be.

Your contacts will NOT need the plugin as it would generally just utilise the Custom Statuses feature that Messenger Plus! provides, which means your contacts will need Messenger Plus! in order for this to be successful.

However, the plugin will need to:
[*]determine the time of day (easy to do)
[*]activate when you set your status to "Out to Lunch"
[*]Set the custom status according to the time of day determined by the plugin.

Currently this isn't do-able without Messenger Plus!'s custom statuses feature and is not do-able without a plugin to interpret the system time + set the corresponding status.

Now stop biting everyone, all they're doing is trying to help. It's not possible, yet. I wouldn't have had to reply if you would have only read what the other people posted.

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Originally posted by multimillion2k
Even if this was possible, your contact would still need to have something installed that would interpret either your special status, your local time, or both. At the moment it isn't possible for your contact to see a status like this through Messenger alone.
At this point, the easiest way to get this feature is by sending Microsoft a nice friendly email and a box of chocolates.

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My apologies, I did misinterpret your original post. A plugin would be very possible and reasonably simple to construct provided you possessed sufficient programming knowledge..

if you are worried at the moment about lunch defining a time or that having separate custom statuses would be too much hassle, why not (while you are waiting for someone to create a plugin) use a single custom status, somewhere along the lines of :

"can't talk.. eating!"

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Originally posted by gif83
if you are worried at the moment about lunch defining a time or that having separate custom statuses would be too much hassle, why not (while you are waiting for someone to create a plugin) use a single custom status, somewhere along the lines of :

"can't talk.. eating!"

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Ok, this might not be what you want, and might be a little bit buggy (I tested it once and it gave me a correct tag).

This compares the time of the day and changes your status to "away" + the "Out to ..." status tag. Your contact only needs Messenger Plus! to see the tag (as with any custom status). But the plugin, of course, is not needed by anyone else but you.

The status tags will be: "Breakfast" between 6am and 10am; "Lunch" between 11am and 2pm; "Snack" between 3pm and 6pm; "Dinner" between 7pm and 11pm; "Snack" between 12am and 5am. (If you want me to change them, PM me ).

To install, simply put it in the Plugins folder of Messenger Plus! (usually "C:\Program Files\Messenger Plus! 3\Plugins") and run the OutToPlug.reg file (to add the little info to the registry).

To set your status, simply type "/xotset" in a conversation window and it'll do the rest.

Anyway, you can download it from here: OutToPlug 0.2.7.

If this isn't what you wanted, sorry. I'll delete my post.

hey why not use a quick text?

people underestimate the power of a well written quick text often

I would be quite a fan of this but times would be hard, what some people call lunch, others called dinner etc.

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Originally posted by Regexp
To install, simply put it in the Plugins folder of Messenger Plus! (usually "C:\Program Files\Messenger Plus! 3\Plugins") and run the OutToPlug.reg file (to add the little info to the registry).

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Originally posted by Regexp
Ok, this might not be what you want, and might be a little bit buggy (I tested it once and it gave me a correct tag).

This compares the time of the day and changes your status to "away" + the "Out to ..." status tag. Your contact only needs Messenger Plus! to see the tag (as with any custom status). But the plugin, of course, is not needed by anyone else but you.

The status tags will be: "Breakfast" between 6am and 10am; "Lunch" between 11am and 2pm; "Snack" between 3pm and 6pm; "Dinner" between 7pm and 11pm; "Snack" between 12am and 5am. (If you want me to change them, PM me ).

To install, simply put it in the Plugins folder of Messenger Plus! (usually "C:\Program Files\Messenger Plus! 3\Plugins") and run the OutToPlug.reg file (to add the little info to the registry).

To set your status, simply type "/xotset" in a conversation window and it'll do the rest.

Anyway, you can download it from here: OutToPlug 0.1.1.

If this isn't what you wanted, sorry. I'll delete my post.

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All right, I'm making a few modifications, and it should be up soon (I'll update my previous post when it's done).

It should allow you to choose 6 diffent time gaps and put whatever text you want after "Out to" (if you want to be able to modify that part too, tell me).

Edit: Done. The new version should let you change everything in it.

Edit 24/08/2005: Yeah, sorry, you need to configure it first! Else it might not work. I'll do some modifications to it later.

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Originally posted by Regexp
All right, I'm making a few modifications, and it should be up soon (I'll update my previous post when it's done).

It should allow you to choose 6 diffent time gaps and put whatever text you want after "Out to" (if you want to be able to modify that part too, tell me).

Edit: Done. The new version should let you change everything in it.

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Originally posted by riahc4
Edit: Hmm it seems that Plus! doesnt even find the .dll as a plugin. I put in there with MSN shut down and ran the reg file and booted up again MSN but it doesnt find it as a plugin.

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Originally posted by riahc4
(you put a space between messenger and plus....happens to me too)

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Originally posted by Regexp

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Originally posted by riahc4
Edit: Hmm it seems that Plus! doesnt even find the .dll as a plugin. I put in there with MSN shut down and ran the reg file and booted up again MSN but it doesnt find it as a plugin.

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Hmmm....

Try going doing this after exiting MSN Messenger (sorry!):

> Go to Start menu
> Run...
> type cmd
> press OK or hit the ENTER key
> on the DOS window type:
> regsvr32 "C:\Program Files\Messenger Plus! 3\Plugins\OutToPlug.dll"

It should register the DLL file.

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Originally posted by riahc4
It finds it and works
But when I click on my name in the main contact window and click on out to lunch it stays out to lunch (not displaying anything else) and right now its 1:33AM so it should be out to snack according to how you've configured it.
Thanks alot for the plugin but not what Im looking for.

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Originally posted by riahc4
It finds it and works
But when I click on my name in the main contact window and click on out to lunch it stays out to lunch (not displaying anything else) and right now its 1:33AM so it should be out to snack according to how you've configured it.
Thanks alot for the plugin but not what Im looking for.

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You need to configure it first.

Edit: Plus! => Plugins => OutToPlug => Configure

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Originally posted by riahc4
I did configure it. I choose "Out To Lunch" as my status but it still says "Out To Lunch".

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Originally posted by Regexp

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Originally posted by riahc4
I did configure it. I choose "Out To Lunch" as my status but it still says "Out To Lunch".

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Um, no. It doesn't work that way (yet). For now, simply type the /xotset command in a conversation window.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

Edit: if anyone wants to point me into the right direction to set a custom status on status change, feel free to PM me.

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Originally posted by riahc4
OH Ok I can only do it with that command thru a conversation ok i see. Thanks! BTW Do you have any other plugins?

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Originally posted by riahc4
OH Ok I can only do it with that command thru a conversation ok i see. Thanks! BTW Do you have any other plugins?

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I used to have another plugin, it can be found in my site. But it's old and kind of useless (converts text case, also via commands).

I'm not very "fluent" with this kind of programming, so I haven't done much more or complex things.

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My site is: blog.mimsn.com.ar

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Originally posted by Regexp
My site is: blog.mimsn.com.ar

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Nice! Works perfect for what it's for. Good job!

Ok, upon investigating a little, I found out how to set the status and unset it when you choose MSN Messenger's "Out to Lunch".

I only tested it on my computer, so I don't guarantee that it'll work 100% ok.

mimsn.com.ar/plugins/OutToPlug-0.2.22.exe