Shoutbox

Hello,
I'm new to scripting in msgPlus.
I made a script that sends a message as soon as it recieves one.
for some reason, after a random amount of messages recieved, ChatWndReceiveMessage function stops responding.
It start responding again only when the next message is recieved.

I would like to know why it stops responding, and how can I stop this from happening?

tnx in advance,
SquidWeed

Can you post your code?

function OnEvent_Initialize(MessengerStart)
{
activated=false;
contact=null;
msgs=new Array("bb","cya","have fun","good night");
}

function OnEvent_ChatWndSendMessage(ChatWnd,Message){
    if(Message == "*bye*"){
        activated=!activated;
        var e = new Enumerator(ChatWnd.Contacts);
        contact=e.item();
    }
}
function OnEvent_ChatWndReceiveMessage(ChatWnd,Origin,Message,MessageKind){
    if(activated && contact.Name==Origin) ChatWnd.SendMessage(msgs[Math.ceil(Math.random()*msgs.length)]);
}

Messenger Plus! Live has a built-in flood protection on the ChatWnd.SendMessage function, which prevents a script from sending lots and lots of messages - I think the limit was 10 or 15 or so. I guess that's what you've encountered here, and there's nothing you can do to make it send more. Perhaps you could add a delay of 1 or 2 seconds in your ReceiveMessage event with MsgPlus.AddTimer and OnEvent_Timer to somehow work around this problem, although I'm not very sure whether it'll stop the flood protection.

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Originally posted by Matti
Messenger Plus! Live has a built-in flood protection on the ChatWnd.SendMessage function, which prevents a script from sending lots and lots of messages - I think the limit was 10 or 15 or so. I guess that's what you've encountered here, and there's nothing you can do to make it send more. Perhaps you could add a delay of 1 or 2 seconds in your ReceiveMessage event with MsgPlus.AddTimer and OnEvent_Timer to somehow work around this problem, although I'm not very sure whether it'll stop the flood protection.

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IIRC flood protection is at 15 messages at which point the user needs to send a message for it to be reset

I already tried to add a delay of 2 seconds, it didn't work.
And I'm not sure it's a flood protection, because It never gets to 15 messages, the number of messages sent is between 3 to 12.

Besides that, I'm sending only one message at the time so basically it's not flooding, it's an auto-respond

tnx for your replies!

any other suggestions?

Last bump I guess,

Your code is wrong. What is happening is that the random number generated can potentially be 4 because the length of the array is 4. However an Array is zero based meaning it starts counting at 0 not 1. Therefore you need to have msgs.length-1. Like so: When you are using Math.floor you do not need to subtract 1 from the length of the array

Javascript code:

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function OnEvent_ChatWndReceiveMessage(ChatWnd,Origin,Message,MessageKind){
    if(activated && contact.Name==Origin) ChatWnd.SendMessage(msgs[Math.floor(Math.random()*msgs.length)]);
}

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You need to use Math.floor not Math.ceil. Math.floor will round down to the nearest integer where Math.ceil rounds upwards.