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Hello for all,

I've made a simple script called FlipText, you can download it from here. I hope you guys like it.

Since I don't have a better place to receive feedback and suggestions, I thought about opening a thread in this forum for this purpose.

So, I hope you like my script, and please share your feedback and suggestions.

If you check the code, you'll notice that it's too messy :p anyhow, I changed a few things, and added some stuff to it.

For the next version of the script, I added the following:
- Flipon/Flipoff option, so that the script would flip every message you send without the command /flip
- Tweaked the code of course.
- Added the option to flip the text before sending it.

Working On:
- Flipon/Flipoff option for each conversation separately.
- Adding support for letters with accents.

Known Bugs:
- Flipping the PSM for the first time after signing in would clear the PSM, if however the PSM has not been edited at least once since login[Apparently it is a bug from Messenger Plus.]

Again, I'll be glad to hear any suggestions that would make this script more fun.

Thanks in Advance.

Tawa Nicolas

One suggestion would to make a single function that has a parameter which is the text you want to flip. Then at the end of the script return the temp variable and then you can assign it as the name or PSM or the text in the conversation.

I already did that. And to be honest I was expecting someone to tell me to do it

When I first saw the topic I thought: "Oh no.. , not another entire script to simply swap a string from left to right " (as you can do that in one line of code, see below). But I must say, I am pleasantly surprised to see you took it a step further with a twist (almost literally ).

Anyways...

The whole process to replace a character with another in OnEvent_ChatWndSendMessage() can already be made more efficient if you integrate the second 'For' loop (line 74) into the first (line 62).

At this moment you do:
- iterate thru the original string and replace character x with y
- iterate thru the new string and flip it left to right.

This means 2 times iterating thru the entire string.
Together with that you also look up a part of the string deep inside the loop each time to build your new string (and even two times: the stuff which is in front of the replaced character, and the stuff which comes after it), this is very slow and not needed.

All you need is the actual new character in the loop. Do the concatenation later, after the whole loop. The benefit is also that you can immediatly add the new character at the end of the new string instead of at the beginning (and then later start a new loop to swap from left to right), thus automatically swapping the string from left to right too.

improvement example:

js code:

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var temp = Message.substring(6);
var str = "";
var charNew = "";
for(var i = 0; i < temp.length; i++){
    // Assign the new character to the original character in case
    // there is no replacement. Note: this also features a double
    // purpose, see next comment.
    charNew = temp.charAt(i);
    for(var j = 0; j < alpha.length; j++){
        // Also note that I replaced all the temp.charAt(i) with charNew
        // eliminating all the (slow) string lookups.
        if(charNew === alpha[j] || charNew === kappa[j]){
            charNew = omega[j];
            break;
        }
        if(charNew === omega[j]){
            charNew = alpha[j];
            break;
        }
    }
    // instead of doing 'str+=charNew' and then making another loop to
    // swap everything from left to right, we immediatly add the new
    // character to the end of the new string
    str = CharNew + str;
}
return str;

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Also note the change from == (equality operator) to === (identity operator) which is faster.
See CookieRevised's reply to Script about lock messenger

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PS: if you ever want to swap an entire string from left to right, instead of this:

js code:

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var OriginalStr = "Hello World";
var NewStr = "";
for(var i = OriginalStr.length-1; i >= 0; i--){
    NewStr+=temp.charAt(i);
}
return New Str

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you can also do this:

js code:

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var OriginalStr = "Hello World";
return OriginalStr.split('').reverse().join('')

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CookieRevised, thanks a lot for the clarifications.

I had already replaced the Reverse function, but never knew that temp.charAt() slows the process. And the === thing looks good now to me

Anyways, I'm new to JavaScript, I got little experience in it. But I'm learning from this

Thanks again.

A litle part on what it does would be cool?
Hmm too bad uppercase doesn't work that well and some numbers look ****py but i like it

SmilieBUG:

Report:
bug with "^^" smilie!!! make it "vv" | ^=v

quote:

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Orginaltext: "this was a funny joke ^^"
FlipText: "^^ &#477;&#670;o&#638; &#654;uun&#607; &#592; s&#592;&#653; s&#305;&#613;&#647;"

BugfreeFixed FlipText: "vv &#477;&#670;o&#638; &#654;uun&#607; &#592; s&#592;&#653; s&#305;&#613;&#647;"

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Screen:



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Textformation
make a option to set "ABC" in "abc"

quote:

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Originally posted by Tawa

Anyways, I'm new to JavaScript, I got little experience in it. But I'm learning from this

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Messenger Plus! Live scripts are written in JScript, not JavaScript.

quote:

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Originally posted by billyy
Hmm too bad uppercase doesn't work that well and some numbers look ****py but i like it

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I could enable capital letters, but they would look sh**ier than flipped numbers.

Turning this:
AB
C
DEFGHI
J
KLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
Will give this:

quote:

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Originally posted by Spongshga
SmilieBUG:

Report:
bug with "^^" smilie!!! make it "vv" | ^=v

quote:

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Orginaltext: "this was a funny joke ^^"
FlipText: "^^ &#477;&#670;o&#638; &#654;uun&#607; &#592; s&#592;&#653; s&#305;&#613;&#647;"

BugfreeFixed FlipText: "vv &#477;&#670;o&#638; &#654;uun&#607; &#592; s&#592;&#653; s&#305;&#613;&#647;"

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Screen:



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Textformation
make a option to set "ABC" in "abc"

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Thank you for your effort in pointing me to this
Replacing ^ with the letter v would change the sentence, so I added a character I found in Windows' Character Map which resembles the letter 'v'

quote:

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Originally posted by davidpolitis

quote:

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Originally posted by Tawa

Anyways, I'm new to JavaScript, I got little experience in it. But I'm learning from this

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Messenger Plus! Live scripts are written in JScript, not JavaScript.

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Thank you for pointing this out.

Script update is now live