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I'm a new user of Messenger Plus, but was wondering/hoping that it might provide a way to start a Messenger conversation from a DOS command line (on Vista in my case).

Any one know of any way to do this?

Thanks!

Not sure it's possible, but why would you want to do that?

You would need a script and an executable to achieve such a thing.

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Originally posted by matty
You would need a script and an executable to achieve such a thing.

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That was my next reply ¬_¬ Although, would it actually need a script or could you just use the API (I know there are some issues where using the API opens an instance of Windows Messenger)

I would do it how it was done with SendTo.

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Originally posted by Spunky
Not sure it's possible, but why would you want to do that?

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Because I want to ... I use the command prompt and specifically SlickRun for a lot of may day-to-day development work.  I'm just a command-line kinda guy.

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Originally posted by krissy-afc

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Originally posted by glenncarr

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Originally posted by Spunky
Not sure it's possible, but why would you want to do that?

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Because I want to ... I use the command prompt and specifically SlickRun for a lot of may day-to-day development work.  I'm just a command-line kinda guy.

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Or just a wanna be show of hacker to-your-friends.

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Uhmm, no.


Here's a script I threw together which sort of works, but only if the main Messenger client isn't already active.  The AppActivate doesn't bring it to the foreground if the window already exists.

code:

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args = WScript.Arguments
var WshShell = new ActiveXObject("WScript.Shell");

WshShell.Run( 'msnmsgr.exe' )
WScript.Sleep( 200 )
   
WshShell.AppActivate( 'Windows Live Messenger' )
WScript.Sleep( 200 )

WshShell.SendKeys( "%AS")
WScript.Sleep( 200 )
WshShell.SendKeys( "%D")
if ( args.length >= 1 )
{
    WshShell.SendKeys( args( 0 ) ) // Contact name
    WScript.Sleep( 200 )
    WshShell.SendKeys( "{ENTER}")

    if ( args.length >= 2 )
    {
        WshShell.SendKeys( args( 1 ) ) // Message
        WScript.Sleep( 200 )
        WshShell.SendKeys( "{ENTER}")
    }
}

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Anyway, I'll dig around a while.  Thanks, (and I glad I could impress you  by wanting to use the command-line.  old geezer command-line guys like me are cool )

EDIT: Using AutoIt works consistently (if anyone cares)...

code:

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; im.au3
Run( "C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Live\Messenger\msnmsgr.exe" )
WinWaitActive( "Windows Live Messenger" )
Send( "!AS" )
WinWaitActive( "Send an Instant Message" )
Send( "!D" )
If $CmdLine[ 0 ] >= 1 Then
    Send( $CmdLine[ 1 ] )
    Sleep( 200 )
    Send( "{ENTER}" )
    If $CmdLine[0] >= 2 Then
        $msg = StringRight( $CmdLineRaw, StringLen( $CmdLineRaw ) - StringLen( @ScriptFullPath ) - 2 ) ; 2 for quotes
        $msg = StringRight( $msg, StringLen( $msg ) - StringLen( $CmdLine[ 1 ] ) - 3 )
        Send( $msg )
    EndIf
EndIf

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Usage: im.au3 <contact name> [message]

Cheers.