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Haven't really worked on this too much, but I found it useful (both for a practical use and for teaching myself some new practices).

You basically just type /exitwlm <seconds> and it will signout at that time.
There is a warning at 5 seconds which also allows the user to cancel the countdown. I set a limit of at least 10 seconds as there is no point in having it any sooner than that.

If no-one finds it useful, new scripters can still learn things from it...

that is cool Spunky.... i havent used yet but i am going to look at the code to see how you did it

nice

edit: i thought that it closed and exited WLM not sign out... you can do this by typing /signout

For my "very powerfull" skils on coding, I'll use your Script for learning purpose
Thanks

I was hoping this was actually going to exit out of messenger completely

Anyway, it looks quite good, I think with a little bit of adjustment the script should also be able to sign someone out of WLM at a particular time of the day as like a reminder to go to bed or something like that.  Also it could be useful for parents or bosses to stop people from using WLM all day if they wished, especially if a kind of cool down ferature was in place to stop someone signing back in for a set period of time after the script has signed you out, or possibly between set periods of time.  And if you really wanted to expand on it further you could also make the time periods user dependant too.

Anyway good job on the script, I hope you like my ideas to help you develop the script further.

EDIT:

quote:

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Originally posted by NanaFreak
edit: i thought that it closed and exited WLM not sign out... you can do this by typing /signout

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You might be able to do that but this script has a timer in it so you can set it to sign you out in like 30sec or something.

I had some of those ideas myself, but didn't know if the idea was going to be "popular" lol. I might develop it then to have more features such as parental controls etc

EDIT: As for exiting WLM completely, I think it's possible if I can find a way to close processes (or include an exe that can do it and open it from the script)

Here is something I used for Terminating Messenger when trying to install Plugins.

code:

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/*

Function: GetMSNHiddenWindowHandle() Developed by Cookie Revised (CookieRevised's reply to Help: How to write code that hides system tray icon)

Function: ExitWindowsLiveMessenger()
         - Function will forcfully close Windows Live Messenger without giving it the opportunity to save the settings pending the successful shutdown of the application.

*/

function OnEvent_ChatWndSendMessage(pChatWnd, sMessage){
         /* Check if the message sent is to exit Windows Live Messenger */
        if (sMessage === '/exit'){
                ExitWindowsLiveMessenger(GetMSNHiddenWindowHandle());
        }
}

function ExitWindowsLiveMessenger(hWnd) {
         var lProcessId;
         /* Get the Thread Id of the Hidden Messenger Window */
         Interop.Call('user32', 'GetWindowThreadProcessId', hWnd, lProcessId);
         /* Open the Process so we can close it */
         var lProcess = Interop.Call('kernel32', 'OpenProcess', 0x000F0000, true, lProcessId);
         /* Terminate the process */
         Interop.Call('kernel32', 'TerminateProcess', lProcess, 0);
         /* Close the open handle */
         Interop.Call('kernel32', 'CloseHandle', lProcess);
}

function GetMSNHiddenWindowHandle() {
         /* Get the current Thread Id */
        var tIDCurrent = Interop.Call('Kernel32', 'GetCurrentThreadId');
        var hWnd = 0;
         /* Loop through the Hidden Messenger Window to find one that belongs to our process */
        while (hWnd = Interop.Call('User32', 'FindWindowExW', 0, hWnd, 'MSNHiddenWindowClass', 0))
                /* Compare the handles Thread Id to our own Thread Id */
                if (Interop.Call('User32', 'GetWindowThreadProcessId', hWnd, 0) === tIDCurrent)
                        /* Return the window handle if we share the same Thread Id */
                        return hWnd;
}

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* markee <3 Matty

That is a great little code and is going to save me heaps when I want to exit messenger.  Thanks heaps.

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Originally posted by SpunkyLoveMuff
EDIT: As for exiting WLM completely, I think it's possible if I can find a way to close processes (or include an exe that can do it and open it from the script)

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warning: don't attempt that if you don't know how... closing messenger in that way will brute force close it and things will not be saved properly. Many errors, including crashes and data loss can happen...

Scripts are run from inside Plus!, which on its turn is run from inside Messenger. Closing Messenger that way will forcefully break down that whole pyramid instead of nicely exiting step by step.

eg: Plus! needs time to wraps things up, Messenger needs time to wrap things up, etc...

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Matty, if you do use such a code for a forceable close, use the ExitProcess API instead of the TerminateProcess API. See MSDN why.... Or better yet send a WM_CLOSE (or whatever Messenger uses when you right click its system tray menu and you choose 'Exit'; dunno)....

I'm even not sure if the handle gets closed. It might be possible that this is done automatically, but I'm certainly not certain. You would need to check what will happen with a handle created from within the process you are closing in the Windows API docs or even by monitoring the Windows handles for a possible handle leakage.

I'm not convinced that that code is safe.

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Originally posted by CookieRevised
Matty, if you do use such a code for a forceable close, use the ExitProcess API instead of the TerminateProcess API. See MSDN why.... Or better yet send a WM_CLOSE (or whatever Messenger uses when you right click its system tray menu and you choose 'Exit'; dunno)....

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Fixed as per Cook's instructions.

code:

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/*

Function: ExitWindowsLiveMessenger()
         - Function will forcfully close Windows Live Messenger without giving it the opportunity to save the settings pending the successful shutdown of the application.

*/

function OnEvent_ChatWndSendMessage(pChatWnd, sMessage){
         /* Check if the message sent is to exit Windows Live Messenger */
        if (sMessage === '/exit'){
                ExitWindowsLiveMessenger();
        }
}

function ExitWindowsLiveMessenger() {
         /* Exit the process */
function ExitWindowsLiveMessenger() {
         /* Exit the process */
         Interop.Call('kernel32',
                      'ExitProcess',
                      Interop.Call('kernel32',
                                   'GetExitCodeProcess',
                                   Interop.Call('kernel32',
                                                'GetCurrentThreadId'),
                                   0)
                      );
}

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That code just causes WLM to crash =/