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Originally posted by E521
I was wondering, I get really bitchy when I have to open up a window to type in a Msg+ command. More so cos I'm finding that when I really need to do a Msg+ command, the person I am forced to open up a window with - I really dont want to talk to anyways.
So I was wondering if it was possible if someone was able to [for example] create a input box that would go near the toolbar with the other icons (Inbox - Windows Live Today - Colour Scheme - Msg + Live - Scripts).
This is actually a very (extremely) old suggestion...
I think there are more people who would like something like this to use commands which aren't directly related to conversations.
Although, and for now, you could add a bot(°) to your contactlist. There is a big list of bots and the main advantage of them is that they are always online. So you could easly quickly open a convo with those to enter a command. This is what everybody else does as a 'solution'.
Although it must be said that the use of almost all commands isn't exactly frequent (strange sentence
). What I mean is that there aren't much commands which require a big frequent use. And many functions the commands can do, can also be found in the menus. So I guess this is one of the reasons why such a box wasn't added yet (among other reasons). But it is indeed annoying when you must use a command (which doesn't have a menu entry somewhere) and you have a small contactlist with nobody online to open a conversation with.
(°) eg:
http://www.robotinvaders.com/main/Gallery.aspx
http://www.mensmerk.nl/chatbots.html
etc...
quote:
Originally posted by ahmetgns
But most of the commands' aim is easing operations about contacts and to be able to write a command while chatting with someone help Plus! users.
The issue is not that commands exist, why they exist or what their use it.
The issue is how to use commands when no contact is online.
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Originally posted by ahmetgns
For example if you want to change your status and if currently don't have any open chat window, you can easily change it through WLM's systray icon.
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Originally posted by MicroWay
Another thing: If you want to write "/brb" on the contact list, I think is easyer to select the status (clicking) than writing...
Changing the status is only an example. There are a lot more commands...
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Originally posted by MicroWay
vikkie, but the problem on doing this is that the box you showed is from WLM and not for Plus!.
Which can be hooked by Plus!.
Using the contactwheel for this is actually not a bad idea in my opinion. Though, on the condition that you could still search contacts with it, and ofcourse also searching on names etc which start or include the character "/".
Or maybe a second box, dedicated to Plus! only, next to the contactwheel...
now that scripts are possible... There is also a way to script something like this. But it would require a dodgy(!!) way of having a window always on top on the contactlist and constantly polling (which is extremely dodgy and a crap method) its position. Together with a (dedicated, so it can be hidden for example) bot, this could ease the requirement to open a temporary convo each time.
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