Shoutbox

I have this script idea i'd like to expose so I could hear any advice or ideas you guys might have before i start making it.

The basic idea to the plugin is to free me (and eventually others) from having to put up with some people abusive emoticons, the kind that replaces common letters and words with animated emoticons making it irritating to read the messages.

After reading the documentation simply filtering the message didn't seem possible so my alternative idea would be to use the built in option in msn to disable emoticons.

My script would have a list of blacklisted contacts (user created), and using the OnEvent_ChatWndCreated it would check the contacts in the window and if any blacklisted contact was present it would disable smiles for that window, if not it would enable it (so the disabled doesn't spread to newly created chat windows). I didn't see any way to do it trough scripting so I'm guessing i could send a win32api SendMessage to the Conversation windows using the supplied Handle to enable the option.

The limitations in this would be that even default smilies would be disabled also your custom smiles would apper as text to you but your contact will still see them, not shure these are a good or bad things.

So, is there anything here that can't be done? Is there anything that could be done better? Any advice? Please let me know...

The Messenger option is global, so using it won't help really. Other methods... no idea. Just be creative?

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Originally posted by RaceProUK
The Messenger option is global, so using it won't help really. Other methods... no idea. Just be creative?

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My testing didn't show that at all, i had it disabled on one window and on another the emoticons still happeared as normal. I'll test some more just to be shure.

Well it's global... if you close a convo window with emoticons disabled then new convos also have emoticons enabled... It's annoying

Cloudy

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Originally posted by cloudhunter
Well it's global... if you close a convo window with emoticons disabled then new convos also have emoticons enabled... It's annoying

Cloudy

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That's why i'd have my script reenable it for new chat windows without blacklisted contacts, anyways I almost have a working prototype, all that's left is the bit that will change the "show emoticons" option, can't seem to figure out what message i need to send to the window :\

Ok, almost got the "prototype" working but I've hited a wall, I decided to use make a little dll to help call the win32api functions to check if the "Show Emoticon" is checked and to disabled it for blacklisted contacts. problem is the GetMenuState doesn't seem to be working, it always returns 0.

Does anyone know anything about Messenger Live Plus that would cause the function to fail? GetMenuString works fine and returns the correct string so i know i'm using the correct handle and menu id.

Any clues? help

Just like to say I currently have a working version that's working fine (fingers crossed), it disables custom emoticons for selected contacts. Is there anyone else interested in this kind of script?

Im interested

Cloudy

Could you post your SendMessage call?
Than maybe other people can have a try too

I ended up using a diferent idea, I just need to test it better and finish the UI and stuff before i make a public release, i admit the script isn't that great but still it's my baby and I don't want to show it to everyone before i'm happy with it