Shoutbox

Ok, thanks for the info ^_^

(by the way, I moderate a forum as well (not an msn forum, but an anime forum XD) and I know how frustrating it is to answer/explain the same thing thousends of time, that's why a recommend to name the script the way a I did and not a "open windows convo", but I think, as you say, that a lot of people will misunderstand it all the same... Even though I still think that that's not a reason to just don´t do it)

About the x minutes for the "closed window" notify, I said, because the reasons you have already told, that even that way it wouldn`t be 100% accurate, but I think that at least it would stop the "closed windows" notify to appear once and again after many minutes from de last message... It is a improvement, no a solution ^_^ (great idea to make the user choose the time, I hadn´t thought about it!)

About the patches that delete the "user is writing a message" message, I hadn´t thought about that neither... But as I said, it was a way to make it more accurate, not a solution

I downloaded this.. and it keeps telling me people are opening convos with me but they are offline

At the risk of sounding stupid, what is actually the point of knowing when a contact opens a window anyway? If they are going to talk, you'll see the message. Surely you can wait the few seconds between opening a window and typing a message?

I may have missed something, but I really don't see the point.

Personally, I'm more curious about when someone closes the window. As I remember, that also happened to be (a bit) more reliable.

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Originally posted by rob_botch
At the risk of sounding stupid, what is actually the point of knowing when a contact opens a window anyway? If they are going to talk, you'll see the message. Surely you can wait the few seconds between opening a window and typing a message?

I may have missed something, but I really don't see the point.

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I sometimes like to change my status if someone i can't be  bothered with opens a convo with me.. lolol. :]

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Originally posted by Mushroom_Man
Personally, I'm more curious about when someone closes the window. As I remember, that also happened to be (a bit) more reliable.

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Well..that isn't my experience..it kept telling me that someone closed their window...almost after every message they send..and they didn't close it..i asked it many times.

I found it useful to know when someone closed the windows (with a bit of practice it was easy to know when was real and when was a false alarm with as much as 90% of accurancy (in my case))

To know when a user opened a windows was useful to know just for fun, to take my contacts by surprise XD (although it was a bit less accurate because of obvious reasons )