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Hey

I was wondering if it is possible to make a script that when I

Sign out of WLM, it signs out of Skype.
Sign in of WLM, it signs into Skype
If the WLM program is closed (process killed), Skype closes (Skype's process killed)
If the WLM program is opened (process started), Skype starts (Skype's process started)

Thank you

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Originally posted by riahc4
If the WLM program is closed (process killed), Skype closes (Skype's process killed)

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how will a process that isn't running anymore kill another process??

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Originally posted by riahc4
Sign out of WLM, it signs out of Skype.

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IIRC, scripts are disabled after you log out... but I might be wrong.

Restart on Crash is a program which is intended to restart a program if it crashes/closes, however you can set it to run Skype instead.

There's also another 5 similar programs here which could do the job.

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Originally posted by Voldemort

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Originally posted by riahc4
If the WLM program is closed (process killed), Skype closes (Skype's process killed)

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how will a process that isn't running anymore kill another process??

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Indeed it can't.

But a Plus! script could attempt close Skype (never 'kill' a process to quite an application. That is bad practice) when the event
OnEvent_Uninitialize is fired and the MessengerExit parameter is set to true.

The same for starting Skype: use the event OnEvent_Initialize and check if MessengerStart is true.

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Originally posted by Voldemort

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Originally posted by riahc4
Sign out of WLM, it signs out of Skype.

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IIRC, scripts are disabled after you log out... but I might be wrong.

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Nope, scripts start running the moment you open Messenger (well, after all the initialization of Messenger and Plus! is done of course), and keep on running until you quit Messenger.

Logging in or out simply fires another event in the running scripts, it doesn't start or stop scripts.

So, those Signin and Signout events can be used to send an instructions to Skype to do the same thing (if Skype provides such a mechanism in the first place of course - dunno) occording to what user signs in or out in Messenger and what user is signed in in Skype.


- Messenger starts
- Plus! gets loaded
- All enabled scripts are started
=> for each script the OnEvent_Initialize event is fired with MessengerStart set to True.

...

- User logs in
=> for each script the OnEvent_Signin event is fired

- The whole logging in process completes
=> for each script the OnEvent_SigninReady event is fired

...

- User logs out
=> for each script the OnEvent_Signout event is fired

...

- User quits Messenger
=> for each script the OnEvent_Uninitialize event is fired with MessengerExit set to True.

- Plus! stops all running scripts
- Plus! unloads itself
- Messenger quits

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Originally posted by Voldemort

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Originally posted by riahc4
If the WLM program is closed (process killed), Skype closes (Skype's process killed)

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how will a process that isn't running anymore kill another process??

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When the exit command is hit in Messenger, right before that, it kills Skype then kills itself.

So you want the exit command changed to, do something then exit.

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Originally posted by krissy-afc
So you want the exit command changed to, do something then exit.

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Basically, yes

I'm almost 100& sure that's not possible.

Shutting down Skype when closing WLM should be pretty easy to do as Skype itself provides a /shutdown command-line parameter. So all you'd need is:

Jscript code:

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function OnEvent_Uninitialize(MessengerExit)
{
    if (MessengerExit) {
        var w = new ActiveXObject("WScript.Shell");
        w.run("skype.exe /shutdown");
    }
}

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to close Skype whenever WLM is closed.

(haven't tested this though, due to lack of Skype)

So you should be able to start/stop Skype, not sure if it's possible to sign in/out of Skype like that as well.

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Originally posted by krissy-afc

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Originally posted by riahc4

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Originally posted by krissy-afc

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Originally posted by riahc4

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Originally posted by Voldemort

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Originally posted by riahc4
If the WLM program is closed (process killed), Skype closes (Skype's process killed)

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how will a process that isn't running anymore kill another process??

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When the exit command is hit in Messenger, right before that, it kills Skype then kills itself.

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So you want the exit command changed to, do something then exit.

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Basically, yes

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I'm almost 100& sure that's not possible.

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riahc4 and krissy-afc, I just posted what the script must do and what events to use (so, yes, it is 100% possible), do you actually read posts?