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Some n00b Questions by madknifa on 03-01-2004 at 08:14 AM
Hello, I'm new to plug-in for MSN Plus making and I'm a little stuck, I'm using C for the making:
1. How do I get the message from someone sending it to the person? I think it's the Notify one but I'm not sure.
3. How do I send a message to another person?
4. How do I make it play sounds?
2. How do I get the MSN Name of the person, e-mail address, etc
Any help would be great, Thanks 
RE: Some n00b Questions by optimism_ on 03-01-2004 at 08:28 AM
1) not sure what you are asking here
2) You can *only* send messages by returning from ParseCommand, ParseTag or ReceiveNotify. You cannot send arbitary messages back to plus.
3) PlaySound() would be an obvious choice - see the win32api docs on that
4) Using the messenger apis, and the IMessenger object that plus! passes you as part of the PLUGIN_PARAM struct
RE: Some n00b Questions by Mike on 03-01-2004 at 11:20 AM
Well I suggest you do it in VB...I think that its easier to write MsgPlus! Plugins in vb...If you write the plugin in vb then I can also help you with the PlaySound API because I have used it...Look at http://www.allapi.net ...
But it depends on your choise...
RE: Some n00b Questions by CookieRevised on 03-01-2004 at 11:53 AM
It doesn't matter what language he uses, an API is an API. It works just the same in C as in VB...
RE: Some n00b Questions by RaceProUK on 03-01-2004 at 12:50 PM
I've used PlaySound, and I think Messenger uses it too. I would recommend:
C++: Use the MCI library
VB: Use WMP
Both of these should be easy to use (not letting his own experiences and n00b skillz with C++ prevent him from telling the truth 
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RE: Some n00b Questions by madknifa on 03-01-2004 at 03:20 PM
on question 1 i ment, if someone sends the user usinging the plugin.. how do i get that message
RE: Some n00b Questions by optimism_ on 03-01-2004 at 06:02 PM
Parse command and Parse tag functions are executed by only the person sending the command/tag
If ParseCommand returns a Notification Message then that message is sent to every member of the conversation. If a contact has messenger plus! installed, it will strip the first 6 characters from the message and call [b]ReceiveNotify[b]. Therefore, if you want a command to play a sound for everyone in a conversation, you must have the sound playing code in the Receive Notify function, and you must send a notification message