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Originally posted by matty
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I prefer to use the enumeration for status

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Of course, but that would break backwards compatibility. And it'll save you a few bytes.


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Okay perhaps it's not so much of a big deal. Choose whatever you think is best.

Mmm... so is stoshrocket's solution to my auto-message problem the best way?

And if so what's the line:

javascript code:

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if(automsg == -1)

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do?

~ 5n4k3

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Originally posted by 5n4k3

And if so what's the line:

javascript code:

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if(automsg == -1)

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do?

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The variable automsg is the return value for "Message.search("AutoMessage :")".

search() returns the position what is searched for, or -1 if it can't be found.

Therefore, that line checks if "AutoMessage :" is in the message sent, if it is then it's (probably) an automessage and won't change your status. Of course, this will trip up if your message sent contains the string "AutoMessage :".

shorter and slithly faster:

js code:

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function OnEvent_ChatWndSendMessage( ChatWnd, Message )
{
    // Check if it is not an automessage and if we're not busy yet
    if (!/^AutoMessage :/.test(Message) && Messenger.MyStatus !== 4 ) {
        // Set to busy
        Messenger.MyStatus = 4;
    }
    // Return the unmodified message
    // Never forget to return something for ChatWndSendMessage!
    return Message;
}

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! means NOT (The boolean True becomes False, and False becomes True)
/blahblah/ is a special syntax used for regular expressions
^  at the beginning of a regular expression means start comparing it from the beginning (aka: don't do a (slower) search).
test(blahblah) is a method of the regular expression object which test the occurance of the regular expression (in the above case '^AutoMessage :') in the string (in the above case the Message variable)
&& performs a logical conjunction (=AND) on two expressions (both expressions must be True for the result to be True)

If Message begins with the string 'AutoMessage :' then /^AutoMessage :/.test(Message) will return True. Otherwise it will return False. Hence the use of ! (=NOT) to change the result of the test to the opposite...

there is no space before the colon - only after.

it should be searching for "AutoMessage: "


your full script:

JScript code:

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var szStatus = {
    2 : "appear offline",
    3 : "online",
    4 : "busy",
    7 : "away",
    6 : "idle",
   
    // maybe it can happen
    0 : "unknown",
   
    // WLM 8.5
    5 : "brb",
    8 : "in a call",
    9 : "out to lunch"
    };

function OnEvent_ChatWndCreated(ChatWnd){
    MsgPlus.DisplayToast("", "Your Messenger Status: " + szStatus[Messenger.MyStatus]);
    }

function OnEvent_ChatWndSendMessage(ChatWnd, Message){
    if(Messenger.MyStatus !== STATUS_BUSY && !/^AutoMessage: /.test(Message))
        Messenger.MyStatus = STATUS_BUSY;
    }

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@cookiematty: that enumeration for status code you posted returns undefined if like variable[MyStatus]. using it like variable.STATUS_ONLINE will work, however.

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Originally posted by CookieRevised

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Originally posted by roflmao456
@cookie: that enumeration for status code you posted returns undefined if like variable[MyStatus]. using it like variable.STATUS_ONLINE will work, however.

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blame matty, he posted it, not me

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perhaps i should start looking at names rather than "OFFICIAL TESTER"

Thanks guys, it works great.

~ 5n4k3

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Originally posted by CookieRevised

quote:

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Originally posted by roflmao456
@cookie: that enumeration for status code you posted returns undefined if like variable[MyStatus]. using it like variable.STATUS_ONLINE will work, however.

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blame matty, he posted it, not me

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Ah yes, you can't use the value of a variable or expression as identifier for a property when you're defining an object literal. "STATUS_ONLINE" is interpreted as a string identifier for the property, it does not take the value of STATUS_ONLINE to use as identifier.

Here are some example snippets, for those interested in what went wrong here:

js code:

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var key = "123";
var obj = {
    key : "abc"
};
// obj.key or obj["key"] equals "abc"
// obj[key] is undefined

var obj = {
    "key" : "abc"
};
// same object as above

var i = 0;
var obj = {
    (i++) : "first",
    (i++) : "second"
};
// gives a syntax error
// property identifier must be a constant number or string

var i = 0;
var obj = {};
obj[i++] = "first";
obj[i++] = "second";
// this will work though, the square brackets can take both constant or variable values

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