My Messenger Plugin

[reven]

i just want to let everyone know ive been working on a msn plugin, "My Messenger" (original title, no? ). Anyway its still early days, so far all you can do is basic chat with your online buddies (it shows them only as online/offline at the moment) you can recieve/deny files from them, and thats basically it. the chat interface is much better than mediaportal (well IMHO). but anyway the reason for this thread is i need some help finding images, like a want to display an animation when you logon, similar (or the exact same animation) msn messenger shows when you sign on (those two buddies rotating around), also i need some help finding large buddy icons (hopefully png or gif, ie transparent). and im kind of interested if anyone else is interested in this plugin (video/voice chat will be along way away, if ever, at the moment i just doing basic text chat, so not really designed for MVP users, ie you need a keyboard). ill release some screenshots soon, just I NEED SOME GRAPHICS! (oh and if you want to design some, good ones not crappy ones feel free).

[reboot]

Did you look at http://www.mess-icons.com/ and http://www.mess.be/ ?

[elite]

looks good - I'd be intrested

Did you look at http://www.mess-icons.com/ and http://www.mess.be/ ?

Might run in to copyright issues if redistributing...

MESS-ICONS.com expressly grants permission for personal use only

Not an artist myself so can't help there...

[jorm]

what ever happened to this?

[reven]

its still on my machine, i just got busy with my pictures and uni, theres a problem with multiple chats, and if a chat timeouts and creating a new chat ( you lose all the stuff you typed in ).


i can put out a alpha you are you interested.

[jorm]

yeah that seems worth while to checkout. If you dont mind post the code and when I get free time (hahaha, with two kids free time is in short supply). I will take a look at the code.

It is probably more for the wow factor look what my PVR can do.

[reven]

well im pretty much just doing an interface for it, i found this free msn library dotMSN, which handles pretty much all the msn side, i just handle the events etc (im going to have to redo a few things in the code, i didnt know about delegates or event types when i started this.... the things you can learn after a few weeks at uni).

[jorm]

I still dont know about delegates or event types.

[reven]

lol, delegates are method objects, so you can pass around a reference to the method and call it, and events are kind of like arrays of delegates. and the use of

object.SomeEvent += new SomeEventHandler(theMethodWeWantCallled);

will add "theMethodWeWantCallled" to the array of delegates and when that action takes place all the object that is firing the event has to do is call the event array. sp

if(actiontakesplace && SomeEvent != null) // if there are no delegates listening for the event its null.
SomeEvent();

err bad explaination, but its a really simple way of doing things, and well its brilliant! much better than java action listeners. go to thecodeproject.com and read up about them, you'll find a use for them that will probably make your life easier

[Cepheus]

Another way to look at Delegates is to call them type-safe function pointers.

And things get very* interesting when you start getting into anonymous methods in .NET 2.0.