Shoutbox

I want something that will let me right click on any annoying emoticon, and click block. All it does is filter it back into the original text that was used, perfect for those people who use lol as the shortcut for a picture that gives you an epileptic fit.

That would, indeed, be useful. People who use normal text without brackets or asterisks etc. for emoticons really annoy me. There has been a previous post about blocking all of these, but I'm not sure how far the poster got with his/her script.

Maybe it was me, but rumors say the only way is though dll with hooks to msn, which is a thing that i've never done before, I do best with scripting with jscript and co....

Well, there is a MsgPlus.RemoveFormatCodes function that removes some special codes. I'm not sure whether it would remove emoticons though. I suppose you could use that function and then replace the emoticons in the message. Another problem is that you can't change the message to anything longer than the original message. I'm not sure whether an emoticon counts as one character or as many as the code behind it was.

Hope this helps!

I tried to replace the chars with the same chars, but the emoticons were still there, and REmoveFormat does not work either.

it seems that mpl send only yhr puretext to the Scripts, and when it gets it back with the RETURN wlm will apply the emoticons... not before...

an idea is to remove the letters with the emoticons, but in the Script we don't know where emoticons are, a string "abcdefg" doesn't say what char will be converted to emoticons...

it need to be done with something at a lower level than Scripts...

You could build up a list of emoticon commands to be blocked, with a replacement. Then, when the emoticon is sent, the emoticon text is replaced with the "safe" text. Not a perfect solution, but it would work in basic circumstances.