Shoutbox

Is there anyway to set the current users font (and colour and formatting and such) in a script?

Not by using the formatting codes, but properly setting the font.

Thanks.

You can change the messenger registry settings but it won't update until you re-open the window.

EDIT: The two registry settings are as follows in case you did want to know (I think you can work out which is which):

HKCU\Software\Microsoft\MSNMessenger\PerPassportSettings\{MSN ID here}\IM Color
HKCU\Software\Microsoft\MSNMessenger\PerPassportSettings\{MSN ID here}\IM Format

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Originally posted by markee
You can change the messenger registry settings but it won't update until you re-open the window.

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Hmm... not ideal, but it might do, could you give me a little more in depth than that?  ie.  which registry settings?

For the font you can use the command "/font"...but for the colour...

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Originally posted by Huhu_Manix
For the font you can use the command "/font"...but for the colour...

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That just opens the font window though... it can't be used to set a font can it?

Updated my first post with the registry keys (no-one replied when I started writing it )

OK, they seem to be saved as binary, how would I read / write values to them?

And is there anyway I could use /font then send window messages to the font window to set the font or something?

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Originally posted by alexp2_ad
And is there anyway I could use /font then send window messages to the font window to set the font or something?

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I think you can, i seam to remember eljelly doing it a while back. AFAIK the hwnd for the font textbox is easyish to find

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Originally posted by markee
HKCU\Software\Microsoft\MSNMessenger\PerPassportSettings\{MSN ID here}\IM Color
HKCU\Software\Microsoft\MSNMessenger\PerPassportSettings\{MSN ID here}\IM Format

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I don't have those two keys in the registry It's just the last parts that are missing ("\IM Color" and "\IM Format"). I'm guessing that if my font isn't set by those keys, then it's going to respond when they're changed. It may not just be me that doesn't have them

so is there any way to maybe send messages to the font chooser or something?
or any other creative solution to change the font?
i've got a working script that gets the contacts' fonts with xniff and stores them in an associative array. i'd like to integrate this into a clone/imitate/mock script.