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noob in need of some help by Gareth_2007 on 10-25-2007 at 01:10 AM
hey
im looking for some code help im sending a messege to a contact using
code:that would show
Wnd.SendMessage(Msgs['Welcome']);
Gareth.... says:
Welcome to the test program.
this is just some random text
this is what i would like it to look like with out changing my display name:
Test Program:
Welcome (contacts username)
the away status with messenger plus sort of does what i would like to do.
and how could i get the first 7 letters of the contacts display name and show it where it says contacts username above? cheers
RE: noob in need of some help by bigbob85 on 10-26-2007 at 01:41 AM
If you be patient I can write this up for you in about 12 hours, if no one helps you before then.
You have to get the contacts name (making sure there is only 1 contact in the current window), and that will be a string. Then use the substring (or substr ?) method to cut it down.
RE: noob in need of some help by Gareth_2007 on 10-26-2007 at 02:20 PM
if you could write it that would be great 
cheers gareth
RE: noob in need of some help by bigbob85 on 10-27-2007 at 04:18 AM
code:
function OnEvent_ChatWndSendMessage(ChatWnd, Message)
{
var Contacts = ChatWnd.Contacts;
var e = new Enumerator(Contacts);
for(; !e.atEnd(); e.moveNext())
{
var Contact = e.item();
Debug.Trace(" " + Contact.Name.substring(0, 20));
}
}
You should be able to adapt that into something useful.
Contact.Name - Name of the contact in the chat.
substring(start, end) - cuts down the string from start, till end.
Might also want to check Contacts.count to see if its 1 (only 1 contact in a the chat window).
Hope that helps.