Shoutbox

Hi, i'm coding an rss reader plugin but i've got a little problem.
My plugin's Initialize function launch a new thread that check periodically an url to see if the rss stream had changed. In that case i'd like to display a popup notification. So I wrote in my thread code :

If (form.rss_read() = 1) Then
     MsgBox("test")
     DisplayToast("news : " + lastrss, "Rss Feeder", urlrss, True)
End If


The message box is shown, but I don't see the popup
And if I try to show a popup in ParseCommand, that works well. Do you know where is the problem ? Is there a way to call this function from a thread ?

edit : I'm creating it in VB.Net, if you didn't recognize

As Patchou said in the documentation (MPPluginConst.vb),

quote:

---

DisplayToast
    '//   Technical Note: the message must be sent from the same thread  //
    '//   Initialize() was called, else, Messenger Plus! will reject the //
    '//   call for security reasons.                                     //

---

So you can't call the function in thread other than Initialize(), for security reasons

Once again we see evidence of Patchou's uber programming. Is it like that so that dodgy programs can't be bundled in with plugins easily?

I'll search an other way to make it then :/
Do you now a simple way for my thread to make the main thread call DisplayToast ? I discovered MsgPlus yesterday so i'm not familiar with this api yet...

DisplayToast
SetNewName
SendMessage
Initialize
Uninitialize
Configure
PublishInfo
ParseCommand
ParseTag
ReceiveNotify

Are they the only function to interact with messenger plus or are there some more ?


TheBlasphemer > If I create a window in Initialize, isn't it a new thread ?

TB gave the best answer possible, that's how Messenger Plus! do it itself when it calls some stuff from Messenger. Create the window in yourmain thread. From your worker thread, send a message to this window and make the window call DisplayToast, Windows will do the rest for you

Thanks.
My plugin is nearly done, but I need a last bit of help.
I'd like to change user's own phone number to use messenger API function oMessenger_OnMyPhoneChange. To do that, I found the function oMessenger.Phone(vContact as object, ePhoneNumber as MessengerAPI.MPHONE_TYPE, bstrNumber As String)

I don't have any problem for ePhoneNumber and bstrNumber, but I don't know what I should put in vContact to change user's phone number.

Someone do ?