Shoutbox

It would be nice to able to create a sound event notification when a person sends a message wether or not the chat window has focus.

I often leave a chat window open but fail to notice new messages due to life's many distractions. It would be great to have an audible notification for every message.

Just a thought.

You can make a script for that... May look into it tonight to see if it'll work with WLM2011 and MP!5 as well.

Erm, leave it with me

I used to use a script that used the following code, only prob is that I can't use it for certain contacts and not for others. Seems like it might be a popular feature request for the event notifications.  *shrugs*

I'm not very good with scripting unfortunately or I would try to whip up something myself.

function OnEvent_ChatWndReceiveMessage(ChatWnd, Origin, Message, MessageKind){
    if (Origin != Messenger.MyName){
        MsgPlus.PlaySound("new_message.mp3");
    }
}

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Originally posted by kheppel
only prob is that I can't use it for certain contacts and not for others

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So you want to be able to stop it making noises for certain people?

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Originally posted by kheppel
It would be nice to able to create a sound event notification when a person sends a message wether or not the chat window has focus.

I often leave a chat window open but fail to notice new messages due to life's many distractions. It would be great to have an audible notification for every message.

Just a thought.

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Without using a script you can do something like that already. But it does require you to close the chat window each time (or... if the new message has been send a while after the previous one, you didn't had to close the chat window, since then the internal chat session would have been renewed anyways by then).

For this you create a new notification alert for the "has started a new chat" event in the Notification Wizard. This will fire each time a new chat session is created. And a session is created when a) a new chat window is opened, or B) a session timeout has occured (thus without closing the chat window).

If you don't want to close your chat window each time, the only option for now is using Spunky's script he is about to make

Spunky, Yeah, you are correct, it would be nice to have it not make noise for certain people.


CookieRevised, This was something I had more or less already assumed, however, I'm in the habbit of leaving my chat windows open. Closing the window seems a bit of a pain, so by the looks of it Spunky has a good grasp at what I'm looking for. I just figured that since Messenger Plus already facilitates alot of versatility with event notifications, it would be easy to add this option in one of it's future releases. 

Thanks for the feedback, very much appreciated

In that case, check back in a few days and I'll have GUI etc all done to be able to do that and hopefully a finished script

PS: New Message Audio Alert Script
look for the update from davidpolitis though. But even that one could be improved....

It is also available in the database, though I dunno which version is supposed to be the latest though:
http://www.msgplus.net/Downloads/Download-Details/DocumentID/7847/
Due to the current DNS problems you might not yet be able to access that link

I just looked at the two scripts and I've tested them both out in the past. Both scripts work well but still lack the ability to select which people in my contact list actually trigger the sound and which ones don't. If I knew some advanced scripting, I'd try coding myself. But unfortunately, my scripting knowledge is kinda limited.