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Idea for script. by Nathan on 09-23-2007 at 09:51 AM

Well yeah, it's kinda useless script but a cool idea imho.
Basically if you have someone on msn with a coloured name. e.g Chrono's name is red and bold.

The script will find out the colour of the name and make the colour of the chat window red as well.

Whatcha think :P

Shouldn't be to hard to code up.

RE: Idea for script. by RaceProUK on 09-23-2007 at 11:00 PM

Actually, I think such a script would be pretty difficult. After all, it's not trivial to set the conversation window colour. Also, what would happen with multi-coloured names?

RE: Idea for script. by davidpolitis on 09-24-2007 at 06:58 AM

quote:
Originally posted by RaceProUK
what would happen with multi-coloured names?
Strip only the first colour/color tag.
RE: Idea for script. by Nathan on 09-24-2007 at 06:09 PM

Or change the convo window's bg every 10 minutes?
So say it had a colour ranging from red to blue (including purple and pink etc) it would change to pink, purple, blue, red.

It's getting more complex now but yeah.

RE: Idea for script. by matty on 09-24-2007 at 06:46 PM

It isn't easy to change the colour of the chat window or the background image. You are dreaming thinking this is possible to say the least.

RE: Idea for script. by Matti on 09-24-2007 at 07:11 PM

Yes, we have only access to the cmdids Messenger gives us. And those can open the color chooser, reset the default color or set it to one of the 15 colors which pop up when you click the color icon.

RE: Idea for script. by RaceProUK on 09-24-2007 at 10:21 PM

And using that to switch colours will result in flicker.

RE: Idea for script. by deAd on 09-24-2007 at 11:05 PM

changing the color is not hard to do at all (I know two ways to do it off the top of my head, one of which is untested but should work). this script is not difficult -- I may attempt it later when I have time.

RE: Idea for script. by davidpolitis on 09-25-2007 at 05:48 AM

IMHO it'd be more useful having a script to change the colour/color of the window depending on the contact.

RE: Idea for script. by ShawnZ on 09-25-2007 at 06:17 AM

what would you do if they used a gradient?

(please, for the love of god, say "slowly fade from one colour to the second")

RE: Idea for script. by markee on 09-25-2007 at 06:21 AM

quote:
Originally posted by ShawnZ
what would you do if they used a gradient?

(please, for the love of god, say "slowly fade from one colour to the second")
That would look really trippy and be awesome to see it in action.  Even if it wasn't based upon the colour in their nickname (which would blend in up the top of the window) but just random in general with a timer of how quick you want it to change and stuff.

I guess I'll see what deAd does and muck around with it to see if I can do what i'm imagining....
RE: Idea for script. by Oxy on 09-25-2007 at 06:27 AM

That'd be an awesome idea.

RE: Idea for script. by RaceProUK on 09-27-2007 at 07:51 PM

quote:
Originally posted by ShawnZ
what would you do if they used a gradient?
I very much doubt it'd be possible to make the convo window the same gradient without some image processing.
RE: Idea for script. by skyserpent on 09-27-2007 at 10:06 PM

The whole fading thing would really be very trippy. lol, it'd be awesome.