Shoutbox

Well, i think this is an excellent idea, but I can see this taking a considerable amount of time without a programmer with advanced asm knowledge, or somebody with an easy, but effective method.

Perhaps in the mean time a plug in isnt out of the question. It can render the display picture easy enough over the current display picture (hell, you could do it as simple as hard coding into the plugin some coordinates where the current display picture is.). Although primitive this method could be a quick release so people get used to the idea and the idea gets spread and support for a proper version may grow:

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[*]When in conversation user enters plugin command.
[*]Plugin requests file details i.e. the picture to send to this contact.
[*]User selects file.
[*]Plugin temperory renames (or copies) the image to the CRC of the image, or a further unique detail. It then drops the file, along with a recievenotify and the crc to tell the remote plugin the image is on the way.
[*]The remote plugin detects a new file in Recieved Files and checks against our crc, if correct, it renders the image, and sends a confirmation to remote plugin (recieve notify) that transfer was successful.
[*].....etc
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You can see that this method will work and is very simple. It will also allow for the user to have a seperate image for every1! and if they dont have the plugin or plus...who cares, they still only get sent the file and a few funky characters!

But like i say, ofcource, this could only be a quick fix up just for the time been.

Tah,

Hah