How about just a simple script to monitor when i use my messenger the most?

Idea:
Simple: just save how many messages the user recieves per hour so that the user could see, whether he/she uses messenger the most in the evening or in the morning.

Reason:
It's of no use to be online in messenger, if there is no-one to talk to. Therefore inactive time could be used otherwise and messenger could be used more efficiently.

Please help, i couldn't do this myself.

Hello,

Maybe the Stat Center script can help you.

http://www.msgpluslive.net/scripts/view/245-Stat-Center/

Regards,

T-PO

Current situation:
I am well aware of the stat center and i'm looking for something like. This Stat center is an excellent script that collect various information about how many messages the user sends and recieves and what kinds of messagetypes the user sends and recieves. Sadly though Stat center only tells me that i've been online 88 hours in the past 12 days so it gives no clue when my friends would be the most easily avaliable on arvage and on the other hand what part of my messenger usage is such idle time that should be used otherwise.

Solution 1:
Stat center could be further developed also to write down which hours of the day are the most active and which hours of the day should be spent off computer. Stat center just happens to be already such a large script that it would be somewhat pain in the ass to add this feature to it. After all Stat center has its own statistics for each and every contact on the list already.

Solution 2:
A new script could be made just to monitor on which hours are the most messages recieved. As i see this, this very very simple script would only store 24 values and provide some way to look at those 24 values to see when messenger would be used most efficiently.

- 24 values, one for each hour of the day
- code needed to store those 24 values
- code needed to know how much the time is
- code needed to add one to the value currently in progress
  whenever a message arrives
- some sort of viewer for the information collected

Could someone help me on this, shouldn't take too long
I would do this myself if i could.

Hi Chikara,

I FULLY back up your request.

I'm using "XOBNI" (www.xobni.com), an MS Outlook add-in that has this kind of functionality for all my email contacts. Works GREAT!!
You can see very easily at what time in a day the contact is  awake/working/spamming...

Would be great to have this also working for Messenger!

Unfortunately, I'm also not able to make this happen. Hopefully some scriptdesigner will pick this up!
(So please have a look at Xobni to see a working example for email...)

Regards,

T-PO

If you could plot results on a graph too that would be good

Considering what you can do with Plus! RPG, that couldn't be too difficult for you Spunky!

Regards,

T-PO

I'm already working on this as a script (sans the graph lol)

@SpunkyLoveMuff:

Perhaps you can use some Word API/ActiveX function to draw a graph and use an ImageElement to display it..

EDIT::

For the graph: what about having a window with MANY StaticControls with a single "." in them, creating a line (eg <Control Id="Graph_999*999"> ..... for a line at (999,999)  ). One can then use PlusWnd:etControlText("Graph_999*999","."); to fill in the line...

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Originally posted by T-PO
Hi Chikara,

I FULLY back up your request.

I'm using "XOBNI" (www.xobni.com), an MS Outlook add-in that has this kind of functionality for all my email contacts. Works GREAT!!
You can see very easily at what time in a day the contact is  awake/working/spamming...

Would be great to have this also working for Messenger!

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Originally posted by Chikara
Solution 2:
A new script could be made just to monitor on which hours are the most messages recieved. As i see this, this very very simple script would only store 24 values and provide some way to look at those 24 values to see when messenger would be used most efficiently.

- 24 values, one for each hour of the day
- code needed to store those 24 values
- code needed to know how much the time is
- code needed to add one to the value currently in progress
  whenever a message arrives
- some sort of viewer for the information collected

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Originally posted by SmokingCookie
@SpunkyLoveMuff:

Perhaps you can use some Word API/ActiveX function to draw a graph and use an ImageElement to display it..

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Originally posted by SmokingCookie
Yeah, but then I'll need to think and I've got vacation ( = bad combination )

Anyhow it'll be loads of work doing such things in a script, without using external libraries/ActiveXs..

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You realy need that vacation it's dead easy

Yeah, but then I'll need to think and I've got vacation ( = bad combination )

Anyhow it'll be loads of work doing such things in a script, without using external libraries/ActiveXs..

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Originally posted by CookieRevised
Chikara means a stats script which keeps track on the amount of messages for each hour in the day. You are talking about individual contact stats, much like what the script Stat Center already does.

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I might be ale to do such a thing, although it'll take me some time...

And I'll inform you if not (which isn't very likely since I know how Date objects work and I have some functions ready for use within such a script ).

As I said, I already made most of this. I just need to add one more function and then do the GUI

Okay, then I'll have some time free

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Originally posted by CookieRevised

Chikara means a stats script which keeps track on the amount of messages for each hour in the day. You are talking about individual contact stats, much like what the script Stat Center already does.

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Ok, finished... Just needs to be tested as mine won't do one specific thing atm

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Originally posted by SpunkyLoveMuff
Ok, finished... Just needs to be tested as mine won't do one specific thing atm

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Good morning ..

I've downloaded the script and... There's a bug:

I woke up at 8:55, signed into Messenger at 9:00 (I like things going fast ) and haven't sent a single message. The graph, however, shows activity at 6:00 and 7:00.. I'm sure that most people don't use their computers at these hours (I might be wrong, but it's just a thought)..?

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And it shows 20/07/2008, while today is 25/07/2008

EDIT 2::

Script debugger shows errors:

code:

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function OnViewerEvent_CtrlClicked(PlusWnd, ControlId){
    if(ControlId === "BtnNext"){
        chart_number++;
        wnd.ImageElmt_SetImageFile("chart",charts[chart_number]);
    }
    if(ControlId === "BtnBack"){
        chart_number--;
        wnd.ImageElmt_SetImageFile("chart",charts[chart_number]);
    }
}

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code:

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function OnViewerEvent_CtrlClicked(PlusWnd, ControlId){
    if(ControlId === "BtnNext"){
        chart_number++;
        PlusWnd.ImageElmt_SetImageFile("chart",charts[chart_number]);
    }
    if(ControlId === "BtnBack"){
        chart_number--;
        PlusWnd.ImageElmt_SetImageFile("chart",charts[chart_number]);
    }
}

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The graph you see is just a demo, to show you what should appear. I have already fixed the buttons in my own build, which I will post later today, the only problem I have is that the charts don't seem to download

I wanted to wait until you released the script to comment on this. But this script is, as of yet, just still a POC (proof of concept) and doesn't work and seems to complicate things too much (imho).

Anyways, are you going to store all stats seperatly per date? If so, I strongly suggest not to use the registry. It will fill up quickly with (actually many times useless) data in that case. Use XML or maybe even a database for that, much more efficient.

If you plan to simply store 24 DWORDs (that's what I would do, is alo what the OP requested), thus not storing the stats per date, but simply the totals, then the registry is choice number one of course.

PS: all the initializing and putting "hour_of_day[i] = 0" codelines are not needed. Just grab what is in the registry (and if nothing is there, then set the value to 0) when the user signs in, and put it back in the registry when the user signs out.

Also, don't forget to make a check if the recieved message comes from a contact or from yourself. Otherwise it will count your own messages twice.

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Originally posted by SpunkyLoveMuff
the only problem I have is that the charts don't seem to download

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Originally posted by CookieRevised
The url is wrong...

http://www.chart.apis.google.com/

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Surely the graph would look cool and be rather clear way of looking information about messenger usage.

However i'd like to offer another way to look at the information collected.

Just calculate the arvage activity of an hour of the day and compere each value of activity to that.
If an activity value of some hour is more than douple the arvage, it could very easily be shown with green text color.
If an acticity value of some hour is less than half of the arvage, it could very easily be shown with red text color.
And all values in between could be shown with black or white color depending on the color of the background.

This green > black/white > red, with 200 % > 200-50% > 50 % may sound rough but i dont think anyone spends 50% of the day chatting in messenger.

Any update on this, Spunky?

Regards,

T-PO