Shoutbox

Just finished this small addon as an experiment.

This addon is basically a random quote generator.

When you type (!xquote) a random quote is presented.

You could use it as a random away message or something like that.. possibilities are unlimited.. well..yeah

The plugin comes with 2 files by default, the dll and default.quotes (the default quotes file). You can create different quote lists per msn messenger account by naming them [email address].quotes (eg me@myself.com.quotes). The quote files reside in the Plugins directory.

I have built a setup program so there is no need to fiddle around trying to install it yourself.

Please note you will require Messenger Plus! 2.20.46 and up to be able to use this plugin

Download: http://www.mybboard.com/mp_plugins/RandomQuote.exe

Please note that KoalaBlue and I have both tested the installer and can verify that it works.

Also, i added a command /xrquotes to refresh/reload the quotes file (as they are loaded on Initialize). I havent mentioned this because it still sends /xrquotes even when i set sResult = "". This should be fixed in the  next version.

Chris

very nice Chris

well done

Do you think perhaps you can share the source of the installer with me if you made it in VB?

I used crappy Wise Installation System Professional

Cool

crappy indeed

superb...

nice plugin

Nice
Let me see now...
In initialize, you create a file handle to sUserEmail.quotes and if it's not valid you create a file handle to Default.quotes
Then you parse all the quotes from the file into... an array of an array of chars? (an array of strings).
Then when the tag is parsed you select one at random (Rnd()%Number of quotes)?

I haven't downloaded it yet, these are just assumptions from the fact that the quotes are loaded in Initialize().

As long as the quotes file isn't too big, wouldn't it be easier to parse the quotes file on each parsetag call?  Because it's unlikely that anyone will have a REALLY huge quotes file, there wouldn't be too much processing time wasted and it would eliminate the need for /xrquotes

Or you could check if the last modified time has changed and reload only if it has been

And in case i didn't mention it... nice plugin

/xrquotes doesn't work