Shoutbox

This script displays a window when someone sends you a message wich has the message the user sent you, so if it is a non-important message, or if you are chatting with someone and you are typing a message, and someone else sends you a message, and if you don't want to change window to see what that user typed, you can use this script to see what the other user typed, without changing windows.
The idea was from an addon for old MSN Messenger Versions called "Message Scroller" too (the name is also the same)
The official site for that addon is here: http://www.cramon.dk/messenger.htm
As you can see, this script doesn't really look like that addon, because it's new, but I hope that I will continue development of this script to make it look like that addon.

If you need to close the window, just double click on it.
Double clicking it, will close it, and set the foreground window the chat that the message was received from.

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Script package created with Dempsey's Script Packager.
Let's hope that he will complete his Window Designer program, so I can continue development in this script

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30/06/08: Message Scroller is now 2 years old!
Happy birthday!

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30/06/07: Message Scroller is now 1 year old!
Happy birthday!

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19/12/06: Version 0.3 released!
Same link.

What's new?
Finally added a configuration window!
In the config window, you can access these options:
1) Enable Message scroller - When checked, the Message Scroller windows will appear.
2) Do not show Scroller when my status is set to busy - Message Scroller will not show up when your status is set to busy.
3) Do not show Scroller when Messenger is locked - When you have WLM locked and this option, the scroller window will not show up when you receive messages.
4) Do not show Scroller when a chat window has focus - When this is enabled, the scroller will not appear if a chat window has currently focus. It doesn't matter if that window is from another WLM instance.
5) Automatically dismiss scroller after X ms - This can be a value from 100ms to 86.400.000ms (one day) If you would like not to use this option, just put 0 there.
6) Scroller Window transparency - A value from 20 to 255 where 20 is hardly visible and 255 is opaque.
Added /scrollerenable and /scrollerdisable commands.
Focus is given back to the window which had it after the scroller window appears.
Added a small about dialog.
Various small bug fixes.

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21/07/06: Version 0.2 released!
Same link.

What's new?
Uses Plus!'s XML interface engine now, which is a lot nicer, thanks to Matty. That means that no DLLs are now needed.
The position of the scroller window is remembered when it's closed, and it is restored to that position when a new message is received.
You now need to click a "Switch" button instead of double clicking the window. This is done since of a limitation (there is no double click event on the window)

Known Bugs:
The scroller window loses the Windows XP dragging window effect if a WLM window isn't shown on the screen.
This has something to do with the Always on Top code, but I still haven't figured out what...