Creating a group notify using only toast

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Creating a group notify using only toast by chrisdyson69 on 04-04-2007 at 02:16 PM

Hi there,

This is the first time that I've used MsgPlus scripts - I didn't know you could do all this - it's fantastic!

I've got some scripts running, open my own window, display toast, send messages etc, but am looking for some guidance on how to do the following:

A user clicks on a button in a msgplus window
A notification is sent out to a group of users (who can be grouped in the contact list)
The notification is displayed on the recievers computer using toast only - no chat windows.

could someone point me in the right direction?

Thanks

Chris

I should have added that the notification will be a fixed static message.

I've got the window open with the button, when user clicks the button it will open a chat window, send the message and close the chat window, but that's not really what I want....

RE: Creating a group notify using only toast by Oxy on 04-04-2007 at 04:05 PM

Is this the type of thing you want?
If not, then maybe someone else can help.. because i dont really understand..

RE: Creating a group notify using only toast by MicroWay on 04-04-2007 at 07:42 PM

Sorry, I didn't get it either, but...

quote:
Originally posted by chrisdyson69
A user clicks on a button in a msgplus window

What button in what Window of Plus!?

quote:
Originally posted by chrisdyson69
A notification is sent out to a group of users (who can be grouped in the contact list)

A notification saying what text???
And Plus! can't manage the groups made on the contact list (on WLM)... So you need to make a list of the people you want to get noticed....

RE: Creating a group notify using only toast by CookieRevised on 04-04-2007 at 09:07 PM

Niether is it possible to send notifications.

The only thing you can send is text in a normal conversation window.

What Hopper does is changing your screenname and stuff and then quickly signing you out and back in so the contact gets a toast.

RE: Creating a group notify using only toast by chrisdyson69 on 04-18-2007 at 10:07 AM

Sorry for not explaining myself clearly enough.

I have opened a new msgplus window using MsgPlus.CreateWnd command. In this window there is one button.
I want the user to be able to click on this button and it will send a predetermined message to other users in a group (or list of contacts)

That Hopper thing dosn't seem to do what I want.

Sorry for the long reply time, I been away,

Chris

RE: Creating a group notify using only toast by Matti on 04-18-2007 at 12:37 PM

The reasons why this can't be done. (tried to explain as clear as possible)

Plus! can't interact with contact groups. I thought I heard that the API for it has some serious complications, like contacts in multiple groups etc. Of course you can let the user create a group of contacts and the script would save that array somewhere as a group.
It's not possible to 'send' someone a toast message. What Hopper does is changing your nickname to the specified message, block those who don't have to receive the toast, quickly sign-out and back in to generate a sign-in notification and unblock the contacts again. It's not that it actually sends a notification to the users, that's what their clients do. And, when they disabled the sign-in pop-ups in the Messenger options, they won't see anything at all.

RE: Creating a group notify using only toast by chrisdyson69 on 04-18-2007 at 10:19 PM

Thanks for your help, I've scrapped the idea of using messenger now, I've written a system tray app to use balloon tips to do similar using udp.

But i still think the scripting in msgplus is cool