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Is it possible, and would anyone be willing... To make a plugin, that changes the icons of people in the contact list (currently shows their DP/MSN guy), to a custom picture of your chosing for each person... Just to make it look more friendly and frankly, the DP display on the contact list makes it look very cluttered and messy...

Ive reshacked it to make the MSN guy look a little nicer, but would be great in my opinion to have custom pics for each person

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07-07-2005 05:48 PM
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I suppose there is, but then again might not. Because It might overload the msn's protocol(or whatever you call it :P) Plus you'd have to mess with msn's protocolls. Which i dont think you can do.
Sorry if you think I dont know what I'm doing but it's just a thought :)
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I suppose there is, but then again might not. Because It might overload the msn's protocol(or whatever you call it :P) Plus you'd have to mess with msn's protocolls. Which i dont think you can do.
Sorry if you think I dont know what I'm doing but it's just a thought :)
you wouldnt have to use the protocol, you could choose a picture for each user and save the image locally
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07-07-2005 06:41 PM
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Thanks for the replies :) Yeah thats what I was thinking, just a matter of getting messenger to place a local image from hard drive there instead of the default ones...

But I don't know the plugin sdk to know if its possible, and if not the messenger api either for that matter lol... And then id need someone to make it i guess 8-) lol
07-07-2005 07:04 PM
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So no one can tell me if it is actually possible? I take it no one wants to make it :( but at least if someone can tell me if it IS actually possibly i could try to learn the api's myself and have ago...
07-08-2005 08:48 PM
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Technically you shouldn't double-post, but since the posts are over 24 hours apart, I won't report it ;)
As for your suggestion, I'm not sure if it would be possible. Certainly the Messenger API doesn't allow such changes to be made, but maybe if someone could write directly to the right parts of the process space... I wouldn't get my hopes high though: if it is possible, it'd be very difficult.
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Maybe you could rewrite the cached images
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Maybe you could rewrite the cached images
Maybe, but still won't be easy - how will you know which cached image is who's? And it'll also overwrite the image in convos.
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07-08-2005 09:31 PM
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Thanks for the replys :D Sorry for the double post tho :$ lol... Oh well it was a nice idea, guess i'll have to live without it tho :(
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