Shoutbox

I've seen a few questions about an event for when an email is received.  And I remembered this.

If it's possible for a script to display the text from a popup, can a RegExp not be used to see if the toast contains the text "you have received an email from (...)" or "you have (...) new messages in your inbox"?

Just a thought... 

Yes it could.

Something I just wrote out.  Except it doesn't seem to detect all types of events.  Any ideas?

js code:

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// WLM Toasts - easily detect Messenger toasts
// By Whiz @ WhizWeb Community (http://www.portal-wwc.org.uk)

// Adapted from "MSN Popup Spy" by ".felipE" (http://felipex.net)

var Popups = []; // empty popup array
MsgPlus.AddTimer("WLMToastSearch", 100); // start a timer

function OnEvent_Timer(TimerId)
{
    if (TimerId === "WLMToastSearch")
    {
        var Popup = Interop.Call("user32", "FindWindowW", "msblpopupmsgwclass", 0); // attempt to find the window
        if (Popup && Popups[Popup.Handle] === undefined) // if it exists, and we haven't already dealt with it
        {
            var Length = Interop.Call("user32", "SendMessageA", Popup, 14, 0, 0); // get the length
            var String = ""; // start an empty string
            for (var Count = 0; Count < Length; Count++) // for each character of the length
            {
                String += " "; // add a space
            }
            Interop.Call("user32", "SendMessageW", Popup, 13, Length + 1, String); // get the actual message
            Debug.Trace("New WLM notification: \"" + String.replace(/\n/g, "") + "\" (handle: " + Popup.Handle + ")"); // add a debug message
            Popups[Popup.Handle] = String; // store the string and handle so that the toast isn't detected again
            // process "String" variable here
        }
        MsgPlus.AddTimer("WLMToastSearch", 100); // reset the timer
    }
}

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Using something like xniff this is a breeze, but I suppose it all depends if that's an option.

All I can think of for your problem is that maybe there are different classes for different types of events

It's difficult for me to test, since I don't have that many contacts, and I have Messenger Plus! event notifications for everything, but after changing a few settings, I have so far worked out that "<user> has just signed in" (contact online) notifications are detected, but "<user> says: <message>" (new message) notifications don't.

quote:

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Originally posted by Spunky
All I can think of for your problem is that maybe there are different classes for different types of events

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Possibly, but the "MSN Popup Spy" script that I based it on only searched for one class, and it seemed to detect all types of notifications. 

quote:

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Originally posted by whiz
var Popup = Interop.Call("user32", "FindWindowW", "msblpopupmsgwclass", 0); // attempt to find the window
if (Popup && Popups[Popup.Handle] === undefined) // if it exists, and we haven't already dealt with it
...

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Popup is a simple numerical variable (which is already the handle of the window), it isn't a Plus! object. So it can't have the Handle property.

You might also want to make Popups an object instead of an array, like so:

js code:

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var Popups = {};  // empty popups container object

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The reason for this is that when you assign an element on a given index, the engine will have to create empty elements for all unassigned indexes before that index. You can see this for yourself with this sample code:

js code:

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// Create empty array
var myArray = [];
// Set the 10th element in the array
myArray[9] = "foo";
// Now look what happens
Debug.Trace("Length="+myArray.length);
Debug.Trace("Joined="+myArray.join());
// Output:
// Length=10
// Joined=,,,,,,,,,foo

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As you can see, indexes 0 to 8 have to be assigned to undefined before index 9 can be set. We don't need this at all, and when working with big index numbers such as window handles which can range from 0 to 2,147,483,647 this may turn out pretty nasty.

I could be wrong about this though, however I still find using arrays for this case inappropriate. I find it to be better practice to assign to an object property when you only need a collection of items and don't actually need a numbered list. It won't cost you in file size either, since {} takes up as much bytes as [], so why not?

quote:

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Originally posted by Matti
the engine will have to create empty elements for all unassigned indexes before that index.

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Actually no, JScript arrays are sparse. No empty elements are created. The "elements" of 0~8 in your example simply don't exist.

quote:

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Originally posted by Mnjul

quote:

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Originally posted by Matti
the engine will have to create empty elements for all unassigned indexes before that index.

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Actually no, JScript arrays are sparse. No empty elements are created. The "elements" of 0~8 in your example simply don't exist.

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quote:

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Originally posted by debug

Script is starting
Length=10
Joined=,,,,,,,,,foo

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That's what I thought until I ran it...

Yeah, the length is 10 because the element with the largest index has index of 9, and join iterates from 0 to length-1, using empty strings for those undefined or null's - this doesn't contradict with what I said at all