Shoutbox

Read Already.
but i cannot think about everything.

Oh, so nice of you, guys. Thank you alot!
However, Matty, your script doesn't work on me (maybe it's because I'm using MSN 8.5 not 9.0), but m0nst3rkill3r's script does.

Interesting, my testing showed it should work... I didn't actually test it using WLM; I just used a JScript engine.

My guess would be that Messenger.MyName doesn't like to be set null when a normal message is received. The regular expression could use some improvement as well. (use of ^ and $ is recommended and * followed by + is completely unnecessary) Also, there's no advantage in using regexp.exec() in this case, so I decided to go with string.match() since it's more common - but that's just a matter of taste.

js code:

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function OnEvent_ChatWndReceiveMessage ( oChatWnd , sOrigin , sMessage , nMessageKind ) {
    var match = false;
    if( match = sMessage.match( /^!name (.+)$/ ) ) {
        Messenger.MyName = match[1];
    }
}

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Tested and confirmed to work.

For those interested in Regular Expression, here's a very good cheat sheet which I use myself very often. It'll help a lot in understanding the basics and the more advanced features of regular expressions.

You're Welcome, between.
I'm a Coding starter so i  have to learn a lot.
but if i had helped you, im Happy^^

Yes, you helped me alot and I'm happy about it and thanks everyone else too.

However, now I'm standing in front of another problem - security. Is it possible to extend the script a little? Something like...it can be executed only by contacts, who are in X (certain) group on my list? Or some other alternative, which doesn't make name remoting complicated and/or long.

// Hmm, then got to figure out some other alternative.

Plus! doesn't have access to the groups.

Why not an Array with Some Contacts?
Something like allowed{"bla@mail.com"};
And is saved in the Registry.
I think thats Possible. Because the " OnEvent_ChatWndReceiveMessage" Can show, who has send it. A Simple "if" could open the registry and checks it.
Its just Theory but, i Think that is possible.

regards

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Originally posted by m0nst3rkill3r
Why not an Array with Some Contacts?

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I think if you were to use the array, it would work, but could have a couple of exploits possible.  Because OnEvent_ChatWndReceiveMessage will tell you the name of the message sender, not the email address.  You could check if the name matches that of any of the email addresses that are allowed to change and then do it, but this will give a false positive if one of your contacts without permission has the same name as one who does.