Shoutbox

I am thinking about writing a plugin that will analyze incoming packets, and, based on what they contain, perform different actions, such as:

When a user opens a chat window on their end, a toast will pop up informing you of this.
When the user you are chatting with closes their window, a toast pops up, or a message is displayed, informing you of this.

Other uses may come to light as I write this plugin.

My question is this: does the API provide this kind of functionality?

Thanks everyone!

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Originally posted by Sastira

My question is this: does the API provide this kind of functionality?

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No it doesn't

But a patch can! because the protocol does support this. However this is illegal

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Originally posted by Sastira
I am thinking about writing a plugin that will analyze incoming packets, and, based on what they contain, perform different actions, such as:

When a user opens a chat window on their end, a toast will pop up informing you of this.
When the user you are chatting with closes their window, a toast pops up, or a message is displayed, informing you of this.

Other uses may come to light as I write this plugin.

My question is this: does the API provide this kind of functionality?

Thanks everyone!

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So, yet another "Notifier"? ... I still didn't found one I realy liked

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Originally posted by Ezra
But a patch can! because the protocol does support this. However this is illegal

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You don't need a patch for this. Actually a patch can't do anything concearning this. It's either a plugin (yes it IS possible though (combination of packet sniffing and a plugin), see the link above) or an addon...

Currently the best one I've used is the OpenConvo thing...the actual listening-to-port program isn't a messenger plugin (but some kind of third-party port listener, listening to the two (open/close) special messages) but the DLL does receieve messages from the port listener and then display corresponding Messenger Plus! toasts... Plus! API documentation itself doesn't provide the platform for you to do this

So what you do is, u get an opensource packet sniffer, fiddle with the code and get rid of all u don't need, then insert a check for BYE packets etc.. and build events on those.....

Is it possible to put something in the local chat window which the other can't see ? (so, put something in there which isn't a message..) then you could put User has closed window. Instead of those annoying toasts, which, for the record, if you missed them, you can't see them again in some log or something and u haven't got a timestamp with them.....