Shoutbox

Idle IS inactive... But it is a feature in plus live which allows you to see the status sent by Windows Live Messenger. For instance, if they have it set to show them as idle if not active for 3 minutes, after 3 minutes of inactivity it will set them as away to normal Messenger users, but it is possible to distinguish between idle and away because they are defined seperately in the protocol.

It is set on thier messenger how much time before it goes to idle, and you can't define that on your side. They can even have the feature deactivated so they never go idle.

Yes, you can change the contacts nickname but no, it isn't possible through the scripting system.

SilentDragons code should work at showing a toast though.

Cloudy

I have a headache and haven't read the entire thread.

For as long as Windows Live Messenger/MSN Messenger/Windows Messenger have been out there was always two resources in the language file for Away. One was actually ment for an Away status the other is ment for Idle status. Messenger Plus Live does not tell you if the contact is Idle it simply patches the memory allocation where the resource sits that should read Idle but reads Away. This can be done with hard patches like A-Patch or MessPatch.

So in actual fact The_Joker is correct because the time alloted for being idle is set by Windows Live Messenger/MSN Messenger/Windows Messenger NOT Messenger Plus! Live or any other software. It is apart of Windows Live Messenger/MSN Messenger/Windows Messenger, the other apps simply show you the true status.

That's what I was trying to say... But Matty did it in a better way than I did

Cloudy

Cloudy and Matty,

thank you 2 for the explanation.

When I've read Joker's post, I thought he didn't understand what I wanted. It's clear for me now.

(Thanks for the suggestion of using A-patch do to that, I did not notice that A-patch has that.)

Regards,
Nicholas

It's ok As far as i'm aware the status in the end should be there but it's a bug in Windows Live Messenger...

Cloudy