Hi,
In the scripting manual I didnt find "camera" in the search.
Can I operate the web cam from a script?
Will I be able to manipulate the web cam window? - move, resize, add text (headline for example) etc'?
How can I learn how to do that?
Is there any script that I can use as reference to learn from?
Thanks!

Hello Hen,

Messenger Plus! does currently not have access to your or your contact's webcam. Therefore, you cannot control or access it either in scripting.

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Messenger Plus! does currently not have access to your or your contact's webcam.

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Originally posted by Hen
Can I do that? :
Write a program in TCL

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Originally posted by Hen
enable the camera, output will be a nice window

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Originally posted by Hen
Call the TCL (or other C++) program from messenger plus

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jscript code:

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var objShell = new ActiveXObject("WScript.Shell");
var strCommand = "calc"; // just example, should open the Calculator
var intResult = objShell.Run(strCommand);

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Thank you for your reply and help.
Hen.

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Originally posted by mynetx
Hello Hen,

Messenger Plus! does currently not have access to your or your contact's webcam. Therefore, you cannot control or access it either in scripting.

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Note that if you can do something with another program, you most likely can do it with Plus! scripting too as it has very few restrictions and allows you to use not only ActiveX/COM objects but also to use Windows APIs.

If there are some limits in Plus! scripting because you can't access certain objects, then those limitations would probably also apply to any other programming environment. The other way around is true also.

Aka, if you could manage to do want you want in TCL, then you could probably also do it in Plus! scripting.

(the above is not always true though, but in most cases it is and then it is just a question of how; Learning the Plus! scripting language (which is JScript) and its added components)

I'm just looking for a way to start a video call with a script... doesn't need to do anything aside from that. If WLM has an API that I could latch into with a service program written in C#, then fire that from the script, would that work?

<< complete noob with this scripting stuff... although I'm pretty well versed in JavaScript.

I think you can use the SendMessage API from Windows to launch webcams. I can't remember the correct parameter for webcam  although it is on the forum somewhere if you search

Hi,
When I opened the windows visual basic => Tools => reference, I added the Messenger API.
Browsing the "object browser" and then looking under IMessenger2 there is this function:
Messenger.StartVideo (vContact)

Why doesn't it work? :
function OnEvent_ChatWndReceiveMessage(ChatWnd, Origin, Message, MessageKind)
{
var Contacts = ChatWnd.Contacts;  // Deafult will be current chat window, or do I need to specify this?
var e = new Enumerator(Contacts);
var Contact = e.item();  // Assume a chat window with only one contact, no need to iterate
Debug.Trace(Contact.Email)
if (Message.match("Camera")!=null){
Messenger.StartVideo(Contact)
}
}

Do I need to use "Interop::Call " ? - if so, how?
Also the "Debug.trace" doesnt show the contact email in the debug window.

Cheers,
Hen.

It doesn't work because you need to create the ActiveXObject in JScript rather than setting a reference in VB. Also, the messenger API you are refering to is actually Windows Messenger that ships with Windows XP, not Windows Live Messenger, so it will probably try to start the wrong programs webcam anyway.

Use the SendMessage API as I stated above.

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js code:

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Interop.Call('user32', 'SendMessageW', ChatWnd.Handle, 0x0111, 40279, 0);
// This code is untested.  Replace 40279 with 40049 for Video Call

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Originally posted by djdannyp

MENUITEM "Start a Video &Call", 40049, MFT_STRING, MFS_ENABLED
MENUITEM "&Show your webcam", 40279, MFT_STRING, MFS_ENABLED

40049 is for video call
40279 is for webcam

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Hi,
Ok cool, that works.
Now you have to teach me you how you found it....
I searched the forum after you published it and found some similiar posts, however in none I found any explanations as for the parameters and the reference for it.
I opened the msdn:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms644950(VS.85).aspx
and found only SendMessage. Is there a difference with SendMessageW ?
In the MSDN I didnt find the reference to the numbers you wrote.
Could you explain a bit about it?
What is the logic of this function? - it sends a hanle (?) to where? and then what exactly do these numbers represent.

ahh.. and do you know why the Debug.trace didnt work for me?

Sorry for my ignorance.
Cheers,
Hen.

1) Download ResHack.
2) Open the msglang.dll (I think it is) in C:\Program Files\Windows Live\Messenger
3) View the menus and find the code.

0x0111 means send a command to the window specified by ChatWnd.Handle.

SendMessageW is because JScript is unicode (SendMessageA would be for ANSI)

It's Debug.Trace(); not Debug.trace();

As matty said, the codes to webcams and other menu functions can be found by using ResHack

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Originally posted by Hen
Hi,
When I opened the windows visual basic => Tools => reference, I added the Messenger API.
Browsing the "object browser" and then looking under IMessenger2 there is this function:
Messenger.StartVideo (vContact)

Why doesn't it work? :
function OnEvent_ChatWndReceiveMessage(ChatWnd, Origin, Message, MessageKind)
{
var Contacts = ChatWnd.Contacts;  // Deafult will be current chat window, or do I need to specify this?
var e = new Enumerator(Contacts);
var Contact = e.item();  // Assume a chat window with only one contact, no need to iterate
Debug.Trace(Contact.Email)
if (Message.match("Camera")!=null){
Messenger.StartVideo(Contact)
}
}

Do I need to use "Interop::Call " ? - if so, how?
Also the "Debug.trace" doesnt show the contact email in the debug window.

Cheers,
Hen.

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