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O.P. Change display picture with CUSTOM status change...
Hi everyone, first post so ill just say hello before i ask my question... I've known about Messenger Plus! for some time but only really recently got into customizing my Live Messenger to the full extent that i could. One very handy script that i like is the "Display Picture Status Changer" that sets a certain display picture when you change status. I apologize for being rude, but i'll get into the question...


What i have on my PC is a bunch of display pictures i have created / downloaded that resemble my current status or mood (for example, "Happy", "Playing a Game", "Making Graphics", etc), and i've been searching for a way to switch to each picture with custom status change, or some other way...


Basically what i want is a way to QUICKLY (ie, from the Messenger Plus! button) change my display picture and possibly append some text to my display name or change the Personal Text to what the display picture signifies. An ideal script would allow this....

Click on the mesenger plus icon, goto "Moods/Status" menu, click on "Playing a game". The display picture then changes to my "Playing a Game" picture that i have in my script folder, my status changes to busy, and the "Playing a Game" text is either appended to my display name or my Personalized Message is changed to that (doesnt matter, i can add options to choose either or both).


I have taken a look at the code for the "Display Picture Status Changer" (the script can be found here) and have figured out the part of changing the display picture... but they are based on monitoring the internal status changes of MSN Messenger, as the code below shows...

code:
if(Stat == 2) {
             //Appear Offline
             Messenger.MyDisplayPicture = MsgPlus.ScriptFilesPath + "\\images\\offline.jpg";

{etcetera}


Now i'm brand new to this scripting, but here are my questions...

1. I first thought of just modifying the above mentioned script to compensate for custom status changes (possibly to check for certain text in the Display Name / Personal Message, if that is even possible i do not know) but then i realized that the "Custom Status" section in the Messenger Plus! options only allows for Busy/Away modes...  I would like some of my 'Moods / Status' options to LEAVE me as Online, just change my display picture and append/change my Personal Message/Display Name.... so how can I set my status to Busy, Away or online in a script?
2. How hard is it to create a menu like i mentioned above?



Erm... im sure i'll have more questions, but this post is already super-huge so ill cut it here....


I'd really appreciate any help you guys can give and thanks in advance for it, but as i said im new to this scripting - i did check out the Messenger Plus! scripting docs but didnt really get any answers, but yer... errr.... i hope someone can help me out here. Im surprised nothing like this has been done before because... well, to be frank, i think its an awesome idea :P

Thanks for the help guys. I hope to hear from someone very soon. Peace!

11-13-2006 08:17 PM
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Change display picture with CUSTOM status change... - by bboy_sonik on 11-13-2006 at 08:17 PM
RE: Change display picture with CUSTOM status change... - by bboy_sonik on 11-14-2006 at 01:21 AM
RE: Change display picture with CUSTOM status change... - by Psychotic-Retard on 11-14-2006 at 05:09 PM
RE: Change display picture with CUSTOM status change... - by MicroWay on 11-15-2006 at 02:26 AM
RE: Change display picture with CUSTOM status change... - by bboy_sonik on 11-15-2006 at 05:59 AM


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