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Hi,

I´am searching for a script or plugin that changes the layout of the messages to a speech bubble styled chat.

I have attached a screenshot of an example. Seen at the Miranda IM.

So if someone has a script or plugin which already exists please inform me.

Thank you

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Nothing like this is done or can be done. Not even if you skin Windows Live Mesenger will this be possible.

Unfortunately, that doesn't exist.  Furthermore, it would take quite a lot of work to actually create and if it was made it wouldn't have such a nice design.  You can get the same kind of effect using the "group sequential messages from each contact together" feature found in WLM itself in the Option > Messages.  Unfortunately, this is the best that can be offered at the current point in time, maybe in the future you might get lucky....

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Originally posted by Matty
Nothing like this is done or can be done. Not even if you skin Windows Live Mesenger will this be possible.

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You could just use Plus! windows if you really wanted and hide the chat windows whenever they are created.  I was planning on making my own nicer interfaced messenger look doing this method but realised a lot of shortcomings involved and didn't progress any further than my thoughts.  It would be possible that way, but would be very limitted in features and stuff like that.

I'll give this idea a try.

This is possible and a great idea in my view. In fact this is something Patchou should try and implement himself. However this would be full of limitations, and would look very different to the rest of Messenger (using Plus! could make it look nice mind you).

You could not reply within the window itself, and it would have to be a seprate window from your other conversations. Plus adding fancy effects such as the bubbles would be difficult (but not impossible), this would most likely not blend in with the general design trend of Messenger, and will look bad. Finally, easily distinguishing between contacts (using those nice display pictures) is impossible.

All these factors will make creating this feature extremely diffcult and full of limitations. If anything the Messenger team should code it themselves .

I can think of a way to do this...but Windows Vista isn't helping me try to execute it :/

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Originally posted by Deco
I can think of a way to do this...but Windows Vista isn't helping me try to execute it :/

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This script would be AWESOME. Especially if the speech bubbles float or something... But that's even more of a challenge. Is there an IM client (like Trillian) which does this?

Well I can't get Xniff to work with Vista so I guess I'll just send the idea here and someone can try to execute it.

My idea was to build a window with textboxes just like people build menus for their scripts and put the messages send from each contact into these boxes. I'd sniff the incoming messages frmo the contacts in the chat and hide the proper chat window MSN makes (i'd still use the window to check who's in the chat and who's not) and update my new xml window each time a new message came.

This is how I can think of doing this

@Deco: Why don' you just use Plus! events instead of sniffing out conversations?

For some reason I thought I'd need to sniff to actually see chat invites but I'm not even sure there's a different protocol for chat to multiple contacts... but thanks for the advice anyway.