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I will pay $1000 if you can make messenger stop BLINKING
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O.P. RE: I will pay $1000 if you can make messenger stop BLINKING
Nice.. and I can just put that into my Messenger Plus script?
12-17-2009 02:38 AM
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RE: I will pay $1000 if you can make messenger stop BLINKING
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Originally posted by johnnyk427
When I get a new message MSN blinks on the taskbar endlessly, ignoring all blink settings in windows, etc. until I click on it.
That's because the flashing of chat window taskbar buttons has not the same function as the flashing settings in Windows.

The flashing settings in Windows are meant to indicate (non-active) new program windows. Messenger uses that flashing for something completely different: to indicate a new message (in an already existing window for example). Hence it has its own internal settings to handle it. eg: there is even a difference in flashing depending on your status (eg: busy vs online).

On top of that, when you have tabbed chats enabled in Plus!, it is Plus! which will handle the flashing (though, with different internal settings than Messenger does; which might make it all even more confusing).

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Originally posted by Felu
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function OnEvent_ChatWndReceiveMessage(ChatWnd, Origin, Message, MessageKind){
    Interop.Call("User32", "FlashWindow", ChatWnd.handle, false);
}

Unfortunatly, that wont work...

When tabbed chatting is on, and after the internal timeout in Plus!, the taskbar button will be colorized.
When tabbed chatting is off, the taskbar button will still be flashed by Messenger.
(not to mention that that Plus! event will not be triggered for every activity in a chat, eg: file transfers)

Only way to disable it, afaik, is to patch Messenger AND Plus!.

This post was edited on 12-17-2009 at 05:17 PM by CookieRevised.
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12-17-2009 05:55 AM
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