Messenger Magician


Bored of the plain old Windows Live Messenger toasts when one of you contacts signs in? Let the helpful magician Merlin tell you instead.

Notes: Hopefully functionality and options will be extended soon. Enable or disable this script in the scripts preferences. Merlin only tells you when non-blocked contacts sign-in. You may need to download the Merlin character, if so get him from here.


Preview:




Changelog:

Version 1.0.0
- First release


Download:

- Messenger Magician (Version 1.0.0)


Please give feedback and report any bugs etc below. Thanks.

Excellent though you should low down a bit with your release of scripts
Suggestion: Add more characters and sign-out allerts and email alerts
Or even better, have a different character tell you different things!
Also, maybe make his message clickable so you can open a conversation with the person that has just signed in
And maybe make it display colours in names

Kewl, I did some work with Merlin after the post in the "TIPS" thread. Downloading now

Liked the idea... I was trying to make one like that (I have the Agent Message script saved) but no sucess
Nice work

Suggestions: Don't know if they are on project, anyway...
1) Add more functions like sing out, etc (as it said) and maybe other function not related to Sing in, sign out, changing PSM...
2) Add a Properties Window when the user can enable script (as said) AND select wich "functions" Merlin should do
3) Ability to position Merlin on the Properties Window (so the user don't need to change setings directly on the code)

nice idea,and no bug for now

Nice, however would be nice to also block the pop-ups from default wlm comming up as well?

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Originally posted by .OxY
Nice, however would be nice to also block the pop-ups from default wlm comming up as well?

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Originally posted by RaPLeX
nice idea,and no bug for now

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iv got another merlin script (agent messege) will this script put show two merlins at the same time if i get this script as well     

EDIT: just tried it and doesnt show 2 merlins great script andyman

Please, please, please make it colour supported, or when he reads it out, he skips over the colour codes.
It gets pretty annoying, and he goes on for a while.

A great script, make sure you improve it with the suggestions people have given

Here's my suggestion: It doesn't show 'weird' characters, it only shows basic letters, numbers and symbols.

Thanks for the feedback everyone

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Originally posted by Chris4
A great script, make sure you improve it with the suggestions people have given

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dt is guna love it when he sees this thread..

-dt-'s reply to Tips
[Release] Agent Message.

Need I say more?  I strongly recommend looking at the second link to see what might happen to this thread

thank you markee i was gonna say something before but i didnt know if it was appropriate thank you for reminding everyone on this thread

Sorry I'm obviously missing something as I don't quite get what point is being made in the last 3 posts. Although judging by what has been said I'd like to make a few points: I came up with this idea myself (mainly after trying to think of ideas: something not too serious and different to anything else as far as I was aware; and also in ICT at school I was showing some mates how those characters could be controlled [as I had programmed one before so knew it could be done] at http://www.microsoft.com/msagent/dev/code/TryMSAgent.asp and that reminded me about them). I've programmed the/an MS Agent before (though a web page using Javascript, although the last time I did was 28/04/2005 according to the last modified date on the html file). Yes I did use the code to load the character in Jscript from the Tips thread (which I found after searching the forums to see if an MS Agent had been put in a script before), but after all isn't that what it is for (to give Tips etc).

great script.

Just one question. How do not to display the icone

Do you mean the icon that appears in the system tray?

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Originally posted by the andyman
Do you mean the icon that appears in the system tray?

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Right-click the clock and choose "Customize Notifications...", then find the Merlin icon and choose "Always hide", then click "OK" and "OK" again

WoW this script is sooo cool but what would be even better is if you made some of the same script but with all the different characters so people could pick what character to choose that would be good.
do you think you could possibly do one for the genie

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Originally posted by moikiss
WoW this script is sooo cool but what would be even better is if you made some of the same script but with all the different characters so people could pick what character to choose that would be good.

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O NO i done something by accident with your script i switched everything that was merlin to genie and then i set it all back to merlin
and now i gt the genie o no o wait yay i figured out what i done to change the characters
if you want to change the characters when there the bit that says

code:

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Agents.Characters.Load("Merlin","C:\\WINDOWS\\msagent\\chars\\Merlin.acs");

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Agents.Characters.Load("Merlin","C:\\WINDOWS\\msagent\\chars\\Genie.acs");

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function OnEvent_ContactSignOut(Email){
var contactmail = Email;
signedincontact = Messenger.MyContacts.GetContact(contactmail);
    if(signedincontact.Blocked!=true){
        merlin.Show();
        merlin.Play("GetAttention");
        merlin.Play("GetAttentionReturn");       
        merlin.Play("RestPose");
        merlin.Speak(signedincontact.Name+" Has just Signed out");
        merlin.Hide();
    }
}

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code:

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// Feel free to modify any code but do not copy or redistribute without permission.

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o kk sorry i just took the attachment off

Thank you.

Should it be possible for messenger magician, to make a code that will make him saying the fisrt name and the name of the contacts who is comming online, cause i remaned all my contacts with there real first name and name, so i would like to know if it can be possible to make the magician saying the real name, and fisrts name of the contacts, if there is a way to do it please tell me?


Thanks to read me

Luc

how to deleted Merlin ??? its fun but its irritating

not always but sometime

if you mean uninstalling the merlin script all you do is go to the main page of WLM up the top go Plus!>Preferences>General>Scripts then you can either stop or remove the script then your done

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Originally posted by megaluc
[...] so i would like to know if it can be possible to make the magician saying the real name, and fisrts name of the contacts, if there is a way to do it please tell me?

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Originally posted by Passoa
how to deleted Merlin ??? its fun but its irritating

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[b][font=Impact][size=4][color=red] yes how do you delete the hole thing its good but i do find it annoying.

or if u dont know could you tell me how to get to the wlm main page

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Originally posted by linneyblud
[b][font=Impact][size=4][color=red] yes how do you delete the hole thing its good but i do find it annoying.

or if u dont know could you tell me how to get to the wlm main page

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Originally posted by moikiss

Agents.Characters.Load("Merlin","C:\\WINDOWS\\msagent\\chars\\Merlin.acs");

change it to

Agents.Characters.Load("Merlin","C:\\WINDOWS\\msagent\\chars\\Genie.acs");

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Originally posted by CoolWolf
Basically if you had a selection drop box list of all the installed .acs files then it would only display those installed on a users system.

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Originally posted by CoolWolf
As for text colour codes and emotes, there are scripts that handle these, contact thier creators and see if you can borrow some code, maybe they could use some of your code in a future script of theirs?

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I edited your Messenger Magician script, so now he can speak Italian. Can I distribute the new version? Can you teach me something about your script; I would like to make him also read messages, and use more sentences and characters. Please contact me at this email adress for replay.        My Email Address is this.

[align=right]Thank you, I'm sorry for my English. I'm Italian

why dont you add options to turn it off?? And add sound.. i want to hear him to.

code:

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    Merlin.TTSModeID = "{CA141FD0-AC7F-11D1-97A3-006008273002}";

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fervus, sure you can redistribute an Italian version of my script - thanks for asking . Have a look at the email I sent you for more information.

Drakal, I was thinking of adding the option to turn it off along with changing the character in the next version (although I'm very busy at the moment so that seems a long time away). Adding sound (aka making it talk) looks like a great idea, thanks for the code

The magician didn't work after it was installed.  Every time I started up, I had to stop and start the script to get the magician doing his work.
The problem appeared on a windows Vista business and a windows live messenger 8.5.1288.816.
To solve the problem, I've added this code to start the magician (silently) after signing in, wich refers to the startcharacter-function.

function OnEvent_SigninReady(Email){
    startcharacter();
}

How would I alter the code to use other avatars i have?

blenchi, sorry for your issue but thanks for the code to auto-start it, I'm sure this can help a few people with the same problem as you. In the next version I'll probably make it so that you can set it to auto-start or not.

nyzaraxbloodshryne, I'm not quite sure what you mean by "avatars". You can only use Microsoft Agent characters with this script.

hey i love this program but i just seem to get it to run automatically


every time i want it on i have to go to scripts and edit the scrips and save it for the magician's to come back on!!

rather annoying coz i had to disable the sound form when a contact signs in so you could only hear the magician

so if i forget i can hear when my contacts are signing in!

please help


email is madam_susie@hotmail.com

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Originally posted by the andyman
fervus, sure you can redistribute an Italian version of my script - thanks for asking . Have a look at the email I sent you for more information.

Drakal, I was thinking of adding the option to turn it off along with changing the character in the next version (although I'm very busy at the moment so that seems a long time away). Adding sound (aka making it talk) looks like a great idea, thanks for the code

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why does after it has said who has logged on, it dissapers

and can i have the script?

Now make the paperclip please!
That guy is Awesome!

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Originally posted by FootSoulJah
Now make the paperclip please!
That guy is Awesome!

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Messenger Magician fails to load the Agent (Merlin) after quitting WLM then starting it up again. The problem is that you've nested an event function inside another function:

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function OnEvent_Initialize(MessengerStart){
    if(MessengerStart==false){
        startcharacter();
        merlin.Show();
        merlin.MoveTo(25,30);
        merlin.Play("Announce");
        merlin.Speak("Hello. Thanks for installing Messenger Magician");
        merlin.Play("Greet");
        merlin.Play("RestPose");
        merlin.Speak("I'm Merlin and I'll try to help you by telling you when one of your contacts signs into Messenger");
        merlin.Speak("I'll disappear now until I'm needed again when a contact signs in");
        merlin.Speak("Bye");
        merlin.Play("Wave");
        merlin.Hide();
    }else{
            function OnEvent_SigninReady(Email){
                startcharacter();
            }
    }
}

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Originally posted by the andyman

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// Feel free to modify any code but do not copy or redistribute without permission.

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Next time either ask my permission before copying my script, ignoring all notices in it and redistributing it; or get a bit of patience and wait for me to do what I just said I was going to do.

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He wasn't being anal about it and he has every right to complain when people redistribute his script!! No matter if it contained 20 unique lines or 1 new extra line compared to -dt-'s code.

The few lines of code posted by -dt- is there to be used in scripts. Moreover, it is so absolute basic code and so few lines (call ActiveX and use some properties) that anybody would come up with the exact same lines of codes. That doesn't not make any script using that ActiveX the property of -dt-, not even in the smallest way.

Heyy its an amazing script but i cant disable it!! HELPP ASAP. XX REPLY TO MY EMAIL ASAP PLEASE YEM-YEM@HOTMAIL.CO.UK

When i do it ... Merlin does not show up everytime i sign in ? Do i have to do something first ? That probably sounds really stupid [font=Tahoma][size=3][color=red]