Shoutbox

Hi All,

I wrote this today as my first crack at scripting.



http://www.davidtattersall.me.uk/download/msgr.plsc

msgr allows you to share your flickr photos with your friends over MSN.

3 steps to photo sharing:

1) install msgr

2) type '/script flickr find (flickr username)' in a conversation

3) select photos to share

This is very useful as:

- it is quicker than going to flickr yourself and finding a URL
- looking for photos on your hard disk is clunky and time consuming. With msgr you get to flick between categories and see a preview of each picture - much easier than using MSN's Send File dialog.

As the logo says, this is a Beta (how very Web 2.0). You CAN:

- browse photos and photo sets by on a per-user basis
- share photos

You CANNOT yet

- switch between users in the msgr window. You will need to exit and call msgr again with a different username
- go past photo #36. I will add pagination for the release version, promise!

This is only a day's work and a beta so please, be kind

Please reply - any comments / recommendations / feature ideas are all greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

David

First, a problem:
I'm getting automation server can't create object for the thingy on line 80.

OK, couple suggestions:

1.  Add a menu, preferably also keeping the used usernames in memory.
2.  Add a normal command, no need to use /script.

Oh, and LMFAO at you using the web 2.0 logo maker.


EDIT:  Screenshots look pretty cool though, but if you think "it's only a days work" and such, why not just keep writing it till it is ready?  If you did all that in a day, you could have it polished up and working really nicely in 2.  No need to rush a release, it'll just make people less keen to try it if they used the first version and it didn't work.

Screenshot sounds so great! Congrulations, a very great and cool and useful idea !! Make it final and working

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Originally posted by alexp2_ad
First, a problem:
I'm getting automation server can't create object for the thingy on line 80.

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You don't have MSXML 4.0 installed - sorry I missed this, but my friend who tested it did have it installed so I forgot about that dependency. You can download it from this web site

http://alexfung.info/xml4dl.htm

or if you don't feel comfortable with that you can get it direct from microsoft.

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OK, couple suggestions:

1.  Add a menu, preferably also keeping the used usernames in memory.
2.  Add a normal command, no need to use /script.

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Menu's on the way - as are the saved usernames (they will appear in the dropdown box top left on the photo browser). Not sure yet on how to get normal commands to work - I have programmed one in in scriptinfo.xml and it shows in the dropdown box but I get a 'not a valid command' error. Will address all these issues tomorrow.

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Oh, and LMFAO at you using the web 2.0 logo maker.

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fitting, isn't it?

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EDIT:  Screenshots look pretty cool though, but if you think "it's only a days work" and such, why not just keep writing it till it is ready?  If you did all that in a day, you could have it polished up and working really nicely in 2.  No need to rush a release, it'll just make people less keen to try it if they used the first version and it didn't work.

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Agreed - I don't plan to leave it at this. I simply released this to the community to let you have a play around with the core mechanics of the script. I plan to add all the features I described in the first post, plus any more idea people have. I hope to get a new version out perhaps at the weekend - I won't have any more completely free days like today to code.

thanks for the feedback.

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Originally posted by Yil2201
Screenshot sounds so great! Congrulations, a very great and cool and useful idea !! Make it final and working 

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Cheers!

hi,

nice script, can you change it to picasaweg from google too??

greetz

heissam

Excellent, Thanks to alexp2_ad, i have a Web2.0 logo

Seriously, PicasaWebAlbum is a new service but it is by Google so it will take time to peolpe go on it and use it, but i think people will prefer PicasaWeb Album coz you have 100Mb and no transfer limit... is there a way to make it compatible with PicasaWeb ?

See you!

you have 250 MB

If Picasaweb has an API similar to flickr's, then yes I will look into it once I've finished this.

250Mb !! Better than i thought ! I had 100Mb  during the private test session ... Cool!

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Originally posted by davidt

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Bottom row, third from the left, the guy at the very end of the photo, is me