Shoutbox

Hi,

Just wondering if this is possible and I'm just being an ubernewb...

Signed in on 2 computers... close chat on one computer, and it automatically closes the chat on the other computer.

Is it possible to turn this off? It drives me mad!

Nope, it's not possible, the same actions are reflected on all computers.

What I normally do to avoid losing a conversation at one location when signing out of the other is staying signed in at both locations and then signing out of the second location from the first, which does preserve the chats (it also leaves them open at the second location though, albeit signed out.

There's no easy solution

One would assume that by subclassing the Chat Window and ignoring the WM_CLOSE message unless you were to type /close then that should work.

Obviously someone would need to write a DLL to subclass the windows but in theory the aforementioned pseudo should suffice for the situation.

If anyone wants to try the code out that I wrote by all means

Please note the following:

• It is not recommended to do asynchronous callbacks in Plus! as the potential for collisions and crashes is higher
  
• To my knowledge this has never been attempted and I posted without testing and therefore this could cause WLM to crash. Use at your own risk.
  
• This is also only for testing purposes to see if my theory works. (Which as I am writing this it may not because your sent messages will show on both computers therefore typing /close will not work.)(I updated the code to close the Chat Window only when pressing the Escape key. This should prevent the other Chat Window from closing as well.)

js code:

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/* Define object container */
var pChats = {};

/* Define script constants */
var WM_CLOSE = 0x0010;
var WM_KEYDOWN = 0x100;
var GWL_WNDPROC = (-4);
var VK_ESC = 0x11b;


/* Called when a Chat Window is created */
function OnEvent_ChatWndCreated(oChatWnd) {
    Subclass_ChatWnd(oChatWnd);
}

/* Called after we process the WM_CLOSE message */
function OnEvent_ChatWndDestroyed(oChatWnd) {
    Interop.Call('user32', 'SetWindowLongPtrW', pChat.Handle, GWL_WNDPROC, pChats[oChatWnd.Handle].WindowLongPtr);
    delete pChats[oChatWnd.Handle];
}

/* Called when a chat window is created to assign values to the object container */
function Subclass_ChatWnd(pChat) {
    pChats[pChat.Handle] = {
        ChatWnd : pChat,
        WindowLongPtr : Interop.Call('user32', 'GetWindowLongPtrW', pChat.Handle, GWL_WNDPROC),
        AllowClose : false
    }
    Interop.Call('user32', 'SetWindowLongPtrW', pChat.Handle, GWL_WNDPROC, Interop.GetCallbackPtr('CALLBACK'));
}

/* CALLBACK function */
function CALLBACK (hWnd, nMsg, wParam, lParam) {
    switch (nMsg) {
        case WM_CLOSE:
            if (pChats[hWnd].AllowClose === false) {
                return -1;
            }
            break;
        case WM_KEYDOWN:
            if (wParam === VK_ESC) {
                pChats[hWnd].AllowClose = true;
            }
    }
    Interop.Call('user32', 'DefWindowProcW', hWnd, nMsg, wParam, lParam);
}

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I was hoping I could untick a box

Nope not as simple as that

Hope you can help me with this..

Is it possible to sign in to an account on a second computer without any notice on the first computer of a second PC siging in?

So no warnings of any kind that chats can be seen at multiple locations..

Only if you change it on the first PC to not show notifications when signing in at multiple locations.

But it would still be visible in the contact list window as it would show that you were signed in at two locations