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Intosia, I have already made this...

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a new window? one that is always open? i only want to know who's already online at sign in. after than i get told who else joins my online contacts and who goes offline. all i wanted was a quick toast to let me know so and so are online. and SpunkyLoveMuffs script is doing a good job of that

aha, no worries, just a idea. The toasts are stupid in my opinion.... way to much popups

that's cos you probably have so many online contacts . i only usually have 3 at a time online on the account i want to use this on. and toasts are very inobtrusive. for me at least. maybe cos of my high resolution. but they don't get in the way, whereas a window in the middle of my screen would. and toasts can be right clicked away easily.

i edited my earlier post, SpunkyLoveMuff, by the way. Im guessing being able to open a chat by clicking one online contacts name isnt possible, right?

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Originally posted by Jiggs
SpunkyLoveMuffs script is doing a good job of that (Smilie)

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So I'm guessing thats what you wanted then? hope it works ok

EDIT: It is possible, but it'd open all 4 people because I wouldn't know which contact to open... I could try and make it so that when you type either 1,2,3,4 on the numpad when the toast is visible that it opens the corresponding window

its great, yes . i sang my praise in an edit of my earlier post. you might have missed it . thanks a lot. is exactly what i wanted. im surprised how many think its a bad idea. i love being told who's online while msn signs in and im doing something else, like opening firefox or so. very handy imho

It's a good idea for a script... I've kept it installed on my PC

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EDIT: It is possible, but it'd open all 4 people because I wouldn't know which contact to open... I could try and make it so that when you type either 1,2,3,4 on the numpad when the toast is visible that it opens the corresponding window

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hmm. not bad. maybe even something like ctrl+alt+1. because i have a g15 keyboard, which is a keyboard with macro keys. so i could assign any keys to one of the keys to let me open a convo. but even using 1-4 on the numpad while the little toast is visible is good too. because the numpad keys would only be taken for the few seconds of the toast.

but if its a lot of trouble doing it, its not that important .

EDIT: i had a little idea. is it possible that when the toast is clicked, a little window pops up in which you could chose who to start a chat with?

so i click the toast, and a small window with the 4 names pops up on which i can click one of the contacts and launch a window. So it would be click once, move mouse, click again. and chat is open

not sure which is better, numpad keys or that.

is it possible to have it not pop up if noone is online? or have the word "none". just blank isnt so pretty

I'll edit the script so that if no one is online it says, rather than leaving it blank. As for the window popping and you selecting the contact, would you want all online contacts in one list, or just the four (or less) people named on that particular toast? If just the four on the toast, I'll need to make it so that there can be multiple instances of the same window open. It wouldn't imagine it being that hard to do. I just wanna be specific about it as I'll probably submit the next version to the script database