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Has anybody used Active Accessibility to access messages' text? if so, can anybody point me on how to start? i need to trigger an OnMessageReceived function

Thanks

Its not as easy as you think. There isn't anything like that. What you have to do is have it dump the text to a textbox and code based on the text (or even the variable it is stored in). Do you have it reading the convo windows at all?

Using ActiveAccessibility requires subclassing the windows and if you do not know how to do this I suggest not trying cause it will only make your life harder. Use the Messenger API passed through initialize to use the .History object for the conversation.

You can use AccessibleObjectFromEvent to monitor changes in the History object of the conversation window.

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Originally posted by Matty
Using ActiveAccessibility requires subclassing the windows

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No it doesn't. I'm using AA to hide DPs when the convo window opens, and I haven't subclassed anything.

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Originally posted by Matty
Use the Messenger API passed through initialize to use the .History object for the conversation.

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where can i get more information about getting the history object?? any references or sample code i can look at??

i found some sample code...

but i just cannot get my head around it..

Vb6 btw:
http://www.jsware.net/jsware/vbcode.html

I believe the Plus API docs have the Messenger API stuff inside them now, as MS don't like people using MSN's APIs for some reason

Edit: This thread looks like an MSN conversation now...

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Originally posted by Stigmata


i found some sample code...

but i just cannot get my head around it..

Vb6 btw:
http://www.jsware.net/jsware/vbcode.html

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yea thats the code I used

Blah I think I will regret doing this but here is an example in VB with some comments for what we are doing.

Well done matty   I'm sure thats gonna help out a lot of VB coders