hey everyone, im new, and i strongly suspect there have already been tons of threads about this, but anyway, i've been working on a plugin today that changes my display picture to the album cover art of whatever song i'm listening to in iTunes.
anyway, i've written a script (in jscript) that takes the song i'm listening to, extracts the art and saves it over a specified file (which should eventually be C:/Program Files/Messenger Plus! 3/Plugins/idp/artwork/art.jpg or something like that). I have also started the plugin, adding commands for enabling and disabling it. What i need to know is the best way to do this:
I need to recall the script every 5-10 seconds or so. (which, being a novice programmer, i have no idea how to do.. although i could easily google it... but i think its probably better to get it all from one place
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I need to refresh my dp. (probably by loading the file as my dp again)
I need to find the messenger plus install directory to find where i should put the art....
The plugin is written in visual basic .NET and i may need to change the script to VBscript, i dont know..
i was wondering if display pictures are part of MSERVICEPROPERTY or something like that...
anyway, if someone could help me out on any of those 3 things, i would be very grateful.
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