I'm quite bored at the moment so I decided to share a couple of functions that seem to help me out a bit and save time.

This first one is because I was too used to using Flash's trace command. I also like that you can prefix (and suffix) the traced output.

code:

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function trace(message){
Debug.Trace("Trace: "+message)
}

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code:

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function msgbox(title, message){
Interop.Call("User32.dll", "MessageBoxW", 0, message, title, 0);
}

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code:

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var online;
var offline;
var percent;
var str;

function OnEvent_SigninReady(Email){
doIt(Email);
}

function OnEvent_ContactSignin(Email){
doIt(Email);
}

function OnEvent_ContactSignout(Email){
doIt(Email);
}

function OnEvent_Initialize(MessengerStart){
doIt(Messenger.MyEmail);
}

function doIt(Email){
str="----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------";
online=0;
offline=0;
var Contacts = Messenger.MyContacts;
var e = new Enumerator(Contacts);
    for(; !e.atEnd(); e.moveNext()) {
        var Contact = e.item();
        if(Contact.Status!=1&&Contact.Status!=0){
            online++;
        }
            offline++;
       
    }
percent = Math.round((online/offline)*100);
    for(var i=0;i<percent;i++){
        str=str.replace("-","|");
    }
    for(var a=0;a<=100;a++){
        str=str.replace("-","");
    }
    str=str+"  "+percent+"% Online";
Messenger.MyPersonalMessage = str;
Debug.Trace(Email +" caused PSM to update");
}

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http://shoutbox.menthix.net/showthread.php?tid=56747

Stickied post for this purpose...
Copy these functions in and then delete the thread?

Didn't really think they were *important* enough to go in something like that, which seems to deal with slighlty more complex things... This just really makes it easier to call certain functions

EDIT: Spelling.. tut

quote:

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Originally posted by SpunkyLoveMuff
...
    }
percent = Math.round((online/offline)*100);
    for(var i=0;i<percent;i++){
        str=str.replace("-","|");

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Thats an error I've just noticed. In my PSM script, offline IS the total number of contacts I'll edit original post and highlight it

Now it's correct

Ohh.. And I edited it a little to display percentage of offline people too. I'll post it here:

code:

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var online;
var offline;
var percent;
var str;

function OnEvent_SigninReady(Email){
doIt(Email);
}

function OnEvent_ContactSignin(Email){
doIt(Email);
}

function OnEvent_ContactSignout(Email){
doIt(Email);
}

function OnEvent_Initialize(MessengerStart){
doIt(Messenger.MyEmail);
}

function doIt(Email){
str="";
online=0;
offline=0;
var Contacts = Messenger.MyContacts;
var e = new Enumerator(Contacts);
for(; !e.atEnd(); e.moveNext()) {
var Contact = e.item();
if(Contact.Status!=1&&Contact.Status!=0){
online++;
}
offline++;

}
percent = Math.round((online/offline)*100);
for(var i=0;i<percent;i++){
str=str.replace("-","|");
}
for(var a=0;a<=100;a++){
str=str.replace("-","");
}

percent2 = Math.round(100 - percent);
for(var i=0;i<percent;i++){
str=str.replace("-","|");
}
for(var a=0;a<=100;a++){
str=str.replace("-","");
}
str=str+" "+percent+"% of contacts Online and "+percent2+"% of contacts offline" ;
Messenger.MyPersonalMessage = str;
Debug.Trace(Email +" caused PSM to update");
}

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quote:

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Originally posted by MicroWay
Thanks for this code
Sorry for coping it and editing it  

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quote:

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Originally posted by SpunkyLoveMuff
This might not be "the best way" of doing things, but it gets the job done

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code:

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var online;
var offline;
var percent;
var str;

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code:

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function OnEvent_Initialize(MessengerStart){
    doIt(Messenger.MyEmail);
}

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code:

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online=0;
offline=0;
var Contacts = Messenger.MyContacts;
var e = new Enumerator(Contacts);
for(; !e.atEnd(); e.moveNext()) {
    var Contact = e.item();
    if(Contact.Status!=1&&Contact.Status!=0){
        online++;
    }
    offline++;
}

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code:

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for (var i=0;i<percent;i++) {
    str = str.replace("-","|");
}
for (var a=0;a<=100;a++) {
    str = str.replace("-","");
}

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quote:

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Originally posted by MicroWay
Ohh.. And I edited it a little to display percentage of offline people too. I'll post it here:

code:

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(...)
percent2 = Math.round(100 - percent);
for(var i=0;i<percent;i++){
    str=str.replace("-","|");
}
for(var a=0;a<=100;a++){
    str=str.replace("-","");
}
str=str+" "+percent+"% of contacts Online and "+percent2+"% of contacts offline";
(...)

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code:

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function doIt(Email){
    var online = 0;
    var Contacts = Messenger.MyContacts;
    for (var e = new Enumerator(Contacts); !e.atEnd(); e.moveNext())
        if (e.item().Status >= 2) online++;
    var percent = Math.round(100*online/Contacts.Count);
    var str = "||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||";
    Messenger.MyPersonalMessage = str.substring(0, percent)
                    + "  " + percent + "% Online // " + (100-percent) + "% Offline";
    Debug.Trace(Email + " caused PSM to update");
}

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* Spunky hangs head in shame

Nah, thanks though. Some things are just because it's the way I'm used to working with them (such as using global variables as I don't know if I'm going to later add more functions that will reuse them etc). I've just been able to figure out the regular expression syntax so I'm planning on using that a lot more. I use a different letter for each loop that I make as I (personally) find it less confusing and it makes more sense (again, to me personally).

My original attitude when I started scripting was that if it worked, that was good enough. However, I find myself improving thanks to help people are posting. Things are actually sinking in. I like to help others out also, but obviously it would be better if I knew the best practices first

Cheers Cookie

I also suggest to add them to www.mpscripts.net. I know the site isn't fully operational and stuff, but it's good to have a big database filled with snippets when the place opens.

I also added some snippets already