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O.P. Basic Questions - LaTeX
Hi,

I have been trying to write a LaTeX add-in using C#.NET for Windows Live Messenger, and I came pretty close actually. I tried it in a normal windows application first, and it worked fine. Whenever a message received contains one or more "$$" tokens, the whole message is seen as a tex string, and the double signs "$$" are replaced by a single "$". The string is stored in a .tex file (including the \begin{document} etc preamble) and then converted to a .dvi file using the command line. Finally a PNG image is created from the dvi file, again using the command line. The PNG image is shown in a separate window (I am pretty sure it's not possible to show it inline in the actual MSN window, so I'm not even going to bother trying that).

When I tried it in my MSN Add-in however, it failed, because it seems I cannot create folders, files, or anything, from within the MSN Add-in. I keep getting security exceptions on the most silly things...


So I had a look at Plus! scripting, which may work for me.


I have the following questions. If the answers to these are all yes then I am pretty confident I can get it to work.

1. Can I use basic file I/O, like creating a folder in the Common Application Data directory for example? Can I also create files on the fly without getting security exceptions?

2. Can I use the command line (cmd.exe) and determine what commands to send? If not, can I execute a batch file?

3. Can I display a PNG image (somewhere on the hard disk), either in the current MSN window (probably not), or in a separate window??


Thanks for any help!


EDIT
I thought of another question, not of grave importance, but still useful:

4. If I receive a message with emoticons, does the Message string in the script (in the ReceiveMessage event I guess) display the shortcut of the emoticon, or does it simply skip it? In other words, does the :) emoticon come out as :) or will it be gone from the string?


5. Can I turn emoticons off temporarily when the user is typing a message the contains the "$$" string? Otherwise, you may get emoticons in your latex string...

This post was edited on 06-17-2009 at 09:23 AM by Flippy.
06-17-2009 09:14 AM
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Basic Questions - LaTeX - by Flippy on 06-17-2009 at 09:14 AM
RE: Basic Questions - LaTeX - by ryxdp on 06-17-2009 at 09:26 AM
RE: Basic Questions - LaTeX - by Flippy on 06-17-2009 at 09:48 AM
RE: Basic Questions - LaTeX - by Flippy on 06-17-2009 at 10:01 AM
RE: Basic Questions - LaTeX - by NanaFreak on 06-17-2009 at 10:11 AM
RE: RE: Basic Questions - LaTeX - by Flippy on 06-17-2009 at 10:14 AM
RE: Basic Questions - LaTeX - by NanaFreak on 06-17-2009 at 10:17 AM
RE: RE: Basic Questions - LaTeX - by Flippy on 06-17-2009 at 10:25 AM
RE: Basic Questions - LaTeX - by NanaFreak on 06-17-2009 at 10:30 AM
RE: Basic Questions - LaTeX - by Flippy on 06-17-2009 at 10:37 AM
RE: Basic Questions - LaTeX - by NanaFreak on 06-17-2009 at 10:51 AM
RE: Basic Questions - LaTeX - by Flippy on 06-17-2009 at 10:59 AM
RE: Basic Questions - LaTeX - by Matti on 06-17-2009 at 12:07 PM
RE: Basic Questions - LaTeX - by Flippy on 06-17-2009 at 12:23 PM
RE: Basic Questions - LaTeX - by Matti on 06-17-2009 at 01:49 PM
RE: Basic Questions - LaTeX - by Flippy on 06-17-2009 at 02:41 PM
RE: Basic Questions - LaTeX - by Flippy on 06-17-2009 at 03:07 PM
RE: Basic Questions - LaTeX - by CookieRevised on 06-17-2009 at 05:54 PM
RE: Basic Questions - LaTeX - by Flippy on 06-17-2009 at 06:14 PM
RE: Basic Questions - LaTeX - by CookieRevised on 06-17-2009 at 06:36 PM
RE: Basic Questions - LaTeX - by Flippy on 06-17-2009 at 07:38 PM
RE: RE: Basic Questions - LaTeX - by CookieRevised on 06-17-2009 at 08:27 PM
RE: Basic Questions - LaTeX - by Flippy on 06-17-2009 at 08:32 PM
RE: Basic Questions - LaTeX - by Flippy on 06-17-2009 at 08:38 PM
RE: Basic Questions - LaTeX - by NanaFreak on 06-17-2009 at 09:02 PM
RE: Basic Questions - LaTeX - by CookieRevised on 06-17-2009 at 09:27 PM
RE: Basic Questions - LaTeX - by Flippy on 06-17-2009 at 10:01 PM
RE: Basic Questions - LaTeX - by foaly on 06-17-2009 at 10:42 PM
RE: Basic Questions - LaTeX - by CookieRevised on 06-18-2009 at 01:42 AM
RE: Basic Questions - LaTeX - by Flippy on 06-18-2009 at 11:29 AM
RE: Basic Questions - LaTeX - by NanaFreak on 06-18-2009 at 11:43 AM
RE: Basic Questions - LaTeX - by Matti on 06-18-2009 at 12:03 PM
RE: Basic Questions - LaTeX - by Flippy on 06-18-2009 at 01:29 PM
RE: Basic Questions - LaTeX - by Matti on 06-18-2009 at 01:52 PM
RE: Basic Questions - LaTeX - by Flippy on 06-18-2009 at 03:32 PM
RE: Basic Questions - LaTeX - by Matti on 06-18-2009 at 03:56 PM
RE: Basic Questions - LaTeX - by Flippy on 06-18-2009 at 04:21 PM
RE: Basic Questions - LaTeX - by Matti on 06-18-2009 at 05:33 PM
RE: Basic Questions - LaTeX - by matty on 06-18-2009 at 05:36 PM
RE: Basic Questions - LaTeX - by Flippy on 06-18-2009 at 05:47 PM
RE: Basic Questions - LaTeX - by Flippy on 06-18-2009 at 06:11 PM
RE: Basic Questions - LaTeX - by Spunky on 06-18-2009 at 07:11 PM
RE: Basic Questions - LaTeX - by Matti on 06-18-2009 at 07:22 PM
RE: Basic Questions - LaTeX - by Flippy on 06-18-2009 at 07:23 PM
RE: Basic Questions - LaTeX - by Flippy on 06-18-2009 at 08:10 PM
RE: Basic Questions - LaTeX - by CookieRevised on 06-19-2009 at 09:14 AM
RE: Basic Questions - LaTeX - by Matti on 06-19-2009 at 01:43 PM
RE: RE: Basic Questions - LaTeX - by CookieRevised on 06-19-2009 at 10:24 PM
RE: Basic Questions - LaTeX - by Flippy on 06-19-2009 at 02:31 PM
RE: Basic Questions - LaTeX - by sabian2008 on 07-30-2009 at 03:38 PM
RE: Basic Questions - LaTeX - by Flippy on 07-30-2009 at 04:36 PM
RE: Basic Questions - LaTeX - by sabian2008 on 08-07-2009 at 01:01 AM


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