Shoutbox

Is it possible that an option be added to the contactlist so that it will show the contats in categories, like this:

-online(The people who are online and don't have any status presets on them at the time)

-away/busy vs(the people who are online but may not reply because they have status presets)

-offline (the rest of your contacts who are offline)

or something like that (away and busy in different or same categories, whatever way we set it)

I'm suggesting this because it's usually annoying when there are a lot of people online, but half of them are away and busy, so you can't tell how many people are online by looking at the number next to the Online group. (of course you can't tell if someone is really there or not by the labels but they work most of the time) Categorizing them as Really Online and Away/busy would do a lot of good.

this would be cool but I reall don't know if it's possible...Patchou would be able to do it..maybe Dempsey....what do you think people?

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Originally posted by lou_habs
this would be cool but I reall don't know if it's possible...Patchou would be able to do it..maybe Dempsey....what do you think people?

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Me and lee where thinking about this and we think it would be quite easy to do using the messenger api.
Heres what we came up with:
Have the groups named, Online, Away, Busy, Offline etc.
Use OnContactStatusChanged to monitor when a contact changes status.
Move them to the appropreat group for that status (AFAIK, theres a function in the api to do this)

Now if anyone is going to actially do this is a different thing, as me and lee are incredibly lazy.

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Originally posted by Madman
Me and lee where thinking about this and we think it would be quite easy to do using the messenger api.
Heres what we came up with:
Have the groups named, Online, Away, Busy, Offline etc.
Use OnContactStatusChanged to monitor when a contact changes status.
Move them to the appropreat group for that status (AFAIK, theres a function in the api to do this)

Now if anyone is going to actially do this is a different thing, as me and lee are incredibly lazy.

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and flood the server...
and that'll lag to death if someone block/unblock-bombs you

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Originally posted by Millenium_edition
and flood the server...
and that'll lag to death if someone block/unblock-bombs you

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I was about to edit my post with the cons
and i thought of those.

You could have flood protection, like for anyone who changes status lots in a small time, just leave them in a group called "Unsure about there sexuality" for a while until they stop

But i doubt msn would be pleased with all the group changing
You could probally do it with a proxy so you trick the client into thinking the groups have changed and block the message out to the server. Although as messenger discovery has proved, proxying messenger 7 is dodgy.