As per requested in this thread.

What it does:
When you set your WLM status as busy, it will automatically send a message(which can be changed) to and then block anyone who tries to talk to you. It will then unblock that contact after a certain amount of time (which can also be changed).

How to use:
First make sure the script is enabled in Plus Prefs. Then simply set your status as busy. You can customize the unblock delay and message sent to your contacts through the Options window (accesed by the Plus! icon in chat windows/contact list> Busy Blocker> Options).

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Any comments/suggestions appreciated

Nice job. This script might make your contacts think that you are angry with them, but that is the purpose of the ability to change the message right? Im downloading as i type..

maybe have more than 1 message because i'd rather have "i'm busy, cant talk" then if they continue "stop talking or get blocked" and "you blew it" and block them until you come online/change status

Way better and more advanced than my attempt, good job

And have different status's maybe
e.g.
Out to lunch/eating lunch
In a call

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Originally posted by Supersonicdarky
maybe have more than 1 message because i'd rather have "i'm busy, cant talk" then if they continue "stop talking or get blocked" and "you blew it" and block them until you come online/change status

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Originally posted by Nathan
And have different status's maybe
e.g.
Out to lunch/eating lunch
In a call

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Originally posted by fatfreechicken
And a suggestion by me , what do people think of an "exclude" list type thing? So you can add certain contacts to this list who it will not send the message to or block...

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Originally posted by fatfreechicken
And a suggestion by me (Smilie), what do people think of an "exclude" list type thing? So you can add certain contacts to this list who it will not send the message to or block...

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Originally posted by Puniksem

Just a small suggestion you could add to it's features, it only blocks a user if the user exceeds a preset definable message count' this would then allow one-off messages to still get through without being blocked, perhaps if nudges can be detected, a configurable counter to block repetative nudgers.

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Originally posted by Dazmatic
That would be a good idea, cause sometimes when im busy i still talk to some people

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Hum... nice script but it would be great if we could choose the persons ignored by this script. And I would love a notification window (with history) that says all the persons this script blocked...

My version has these features, don't know how far fatfreechicken is with implementing these features in his version...

http://code.google.com/p/busyblocker/

I've not started the Excluded Contacts part yet, but I've added a feature so you can set it to react on whatever status you want (instead of busy), unblock all contacts when you return your status to online, and I've also added multiple messages before blocking.

Not sure when I'll finish though, but here's a preview

Maybe make a status like Not-Online or something, or select multiple statusses, just an idea
Great script tho

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Originally posted by Plan-1130
Maybe make a status like Not-Online or something, or select multiple statusses, just an idea

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indeed, and don't split up messages by every "'\" it finds, but find out first if a double "\\" is found (like in most languages also) so you can use "\\" if you don't want the "\" to split up the messages

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Originally posted by Plan-1130
indeed, and don't split up messages by every "'\" it finds, but find out first if a double "\\" is found (like in most languages also) so you can use "\\" if you don't want the "\" to split up the messages

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So your suggestion is? <n> for new message and \<n> for the tag?
I thought you meant something like \n...
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Originally posted by CookieRevised

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Originally posted by Plan-1130
Maybe make a status like Not-Online or something, or select multiple statusses, just an idea

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and this for both the "status to activate on", as for the "status to reset" on...

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Originally posted by CookieRevised
PS: Just a note/something to always consider when implementing tags: what would happen if a user actually want to use "<n>" in his message? Or how does he need to do it? I suggest the use of the literal escaping character used in all kinds of languages: "\"

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well you could use my way, but Cookie knows a better (and shorter) way, but i also have no idea how he wants to do that...