I've seen a few questions about an event for when an email is received.  And I remembered this.

If it's possible for a script to display the text from a popup, can a RegExp not be used to see if the toast contains the text "you have received an email from (...)" or "you have (...) new messages in your inbox"?

Just a thought... 

Yes it could.

Something I just wrote out.  Except it doesn't seem to detect all types of events.  Any ideas?

js code:

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// WLM Toasts - easily detect Messenger toasts
// By Whiz @ WhizWeb Community (http://www.portal-wwc.org.uk)

// Adapted from "MSN Popup Spy" by ".felipE" (http://felipex.net)

var Popups = []; // empty popup array
MsgPlus.AddTimer("WLMToastSearch", 100); // start a timer

function OnEvent_Timer(TimerId)
{
    if (TimerId === "WLMToastSearch")
    {
        var Popup = Interop.Call("user32", "FindWindowW", "msblpopupmsgwclass", 0); // attempt to find the window
        if (Popup && Popups[Popup.Handle] === undefined) // if it exists, and we haven't already dealt with it
        {
            var Length = Interop.Call("user32", "SendMessageA", Popup, 14, 0, 0); // get the length
            var String = ""; // start an empty string
            for (var Count = 0; Count < Length; Count++) // for each character of the length
            {
                String += " "; // add a space
            }
            Interop.Call("user32", "SendMessageW", Popup, 13, Length + 1, String); // get the actual message
            Debug.Trace("New WLM notification: \"" + String.replace(/\n/g, "") + "\" (handle: " + Popup.Handle + ")"); // add a debug message
            Popups[Popup.Handle] = String; // store the string and handle so that the toast isn't detected again
            // process "String" variable here
        }
        MsgPlus.AddTimer("WLMToastSearch", 100); // reset the timer
    }
}

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Using something like xniff this is a breeze, but I suppose it all depends if that's an option.

All I can think of for your problem is that maybe there are different classes for different types of events

It's difficult for me to test, since I don't have that many contacts, and I have Messenger Plus! event notifications for everything, but after changing a few settings, I have so far worked out that "<user> has just signed in" (contact online) notifications are detected, but "<user> says: <message>" (new message) notifications don't.

quote:

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Originally posted by Spunky
All I can think of for your problem is that maybe there are different classes for different types of events

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quote:

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Originally posted by whiz
var Popup = Interop.Call("user32", "FindWindowW", "msblpopupmsgwclass", 0); // attempt to find the window
if (Popup && Popups[Popup.Handle] === undefined) // if it exists, and we haven't already dealt with it
...

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You might also want to make Popups an object instead of an array, like so:

js code:

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var Popups = {};  // empty popups container object

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js code:

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// Create empty array
var myArray = [];
// Set the 10th element in the array
myArray[9] = "foo";
// Now look what happens
Debug.Trace("Length="+myArray.length);
Debug.Trace("Joined="+myArray.join());
// Output:
// Length=10
// Joined=,,,,,,,,,foo

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quote:

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Originally posted by Matti
the engine will have to create empty elements for all unassigned indexes before that index.

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quote:

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Originally posted by Mnjul

quote:

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Originally posted by Matti
the engine will have to create empty elements for all unassigned indexes before that index.

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Actually no, JScript arrays are sparse. No empty elements are created. The "elements" of 0~8 in your example simply don't exist.

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quote:

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Originally posted by debug

Script is starting
Length=10
Joined=,,,,,,,,,foo

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Yeah, the length is 10 because the element with the largest index has index of 9, and join iterates from 0 to length-1, using empty strings for those undefined or null's - this doesn't contradict with what I said at all

Well, I wasn't sure about the inner workings of arrays, but still I believe that using an object here is better than an array. Why would you need to create an instance of an array when you're not planning to use any of the extra functionality it offers (such as length, push, pop, slice,...)? Still, I think it's an overkill, but perhaps that's just my opinion.

Fair enough, I'll change it later (I can't test it right now).

Any ideas for some events not working, though?