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CookieRevised
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RE: [Request] Search contacts from start menu
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But surely the /sendim command just opens the window... does it take a contact email address as a parameter?
no, but that is not what he is asking.
Evenso, if you want that, then create a desktop contact.
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I was wondering if there could be a way to search contacts from the start menu (win7) to start a chat session
I thought he meant actually searching for contacts (i.e. shortcuts for each contact, like with SendTo) in the Start menu search box, so that a conversation could be started straight from the Start menu...
Erm.. yep.. Hence the suggested /sendim parameter which does just that. It opens a dedicated window with all available contacts you can search in, which has the exact same same functionality, like he asked.
It doesn't need to take a contact email as parameter to open a list of contacts.
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NoWhereMan
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O.P. RE: [Request] Search contacts from start menu
well no, I was wondering if it was feasable to search contacts from within the start menu.
See for instance imy for Launchy; but I don't want to run Launchy of course, start menu search is more than enough for me.
BTW, as I said /sendim opens the contact list in WLM2011
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RE: [Request] Search contacts from start menu
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well no, I was wondering if it was feasable to search contacts from within the start menu.
nope, sorry, there are some technical and practical issues with that. And you certainly can't do it by using the 'search box'.
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BTW, as I said /sendim opens the contact list in WLM2011
I can't check with WLM 2011 at the moment, but it is supposed to open the Contact Selection window to send a message. (the one you get when you do Extra > Send a message).
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RE: [Request] Search contacts from start menu
Would this not be possible by making a folder somewhere with a bunch of shortcut files, one per contact, to allow the start menu search to work?
Not sure if its possible, just my 2cents
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RE: [Request] Search contacts from start menu
That is what I was trying to say that we can do as a spin-off of the SendTo code.
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RE: [Request] Search contacts from start menu
Basically, we're looking at a script which does something like this...
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BTW, as I said /sendim opens the contact list in WLM2011
I can't check with WLM 2011 at the moment, but it is supposed to open the Contact Selection window to send a message. (the one you get when you do Extra > Send a message).
Confirmed... the /sendim command just focuses the main window.
This post was edited on 05-06-2011 at 07:39 PM by whiz.
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NoWhereMan
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O.P. RE: [Request] Search contacts from start menu
well TheRightThing(tm) would probably be hooking somehow into the IFilter mechanism of Windows Search. No way I know how you would do that, though.
shortcut icons would still be ok.
This post was edited on 05-06-2011 at 09:19 PM by NoWhereMan.
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RE: RE: [Request] Search contacts from start menu
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Would this not be possible by making a folder somewhere with a bunch of shortcut files, one per contact, to allow the start menu search to work?
Not sure if its possible, just my 2cents
That is what has been suggested in previous posts.
And as I said before, there are practical issues with doing stuff like that. eg: where or what folder do you want to have, this might not be the same choice for another user. Regardless, the moment you move that folder to somewhere else then stuff will brake, etc etc... I need to experiment with some stuff to see if those can be solved in a decent manner. But then there are also the possible user right issues etc...
So there are many complications which makes something like that not very practical and/or working for everybody out-of-the-box (without manually altering stuff in the script itself or in the Start menu). I'm not going to put my time (at least not now in the coming weeks) in something which will only work half-arsed and for which alternatives exist, sorry.
(Note: Personally I find double clicking on Messenger's icon much faster and more intuitive anyways than Start > select folder or search > typing name etc
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matty
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RE: [Request] Search contacts from start menu
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(Note: Personally I find double clicking on Messenger's icon much faster and more intuitive anyways than Start > select folder or search > typing name etc
Just a note that hitting the Windows key then typing automatically searches...
My only question is when it comes to Polygamy and if you have the same user on both accounts, when you search for the contact you will get two results and won't know which one you are selecting.
This post was edited on 05-08-2011 at 09:49 PM by matty.
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RE: [Request] Search contacts from start menu
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(Note: Personally I find double clicking on Messenger's icon much faster and more intuitive anyways than Start > select folder or search > typing name etc
Just a note that hitting the Windows key then typing automatically searches...
good point.
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My only question is when it comes to Polygamy and if you have the same user on both accounts, when you search for the contact you will get two results and won't know which one you are selecting.
Or vice versa, when you have two accounts signed in, you don't know which one will be used to start the chat. But, such things might be solved by prefixing the contact email I guess .-= A 'frrrrrrrituurrr' for Wacky =-. |
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