Showing Messenger Status??

[SpeedFreak]

hey,

you know on some sites how they show their AOL/ICQ messenger status (online or not), well - how do they do that?

also - is there a similar thing available for MSN messenger.

PS: i put this in General building, coz i dont know whether its html/php/JS or whatevever

Thanks :)

[oracleguy]

I've never seen something like that for AIM, but I have for ICQ and Yahoo messenger.

Here is the one for ICQ: http://www.icq.com/features/web/indicator.html

It is a feature of the UCQ/Yahoo/whatever I believe.

[scroots]

i know how to do it for msn but they need to have you on your contact list, or there must be a server side way, possibley not though.

As a bot could be built to act like a copy of messsenger and report back your status to your site.

scroots

[SpeedFreak]

how would i go about doing that??

[jalarie]

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[scroots]

i will dig out the code that shows if they are online if there are on your list.

scroots

[Nightfire]

For MSN I have no idea how to do it, ICQ and AOL have a webmasters section which tells you how to do it. Or use their search engines.

[thedevilspride]

Take a look here (http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=msn+status+checker)
They seem to work

[jkd]

function onlineStatus(user) {
var msn = new ActiveXObject("Messenger.UIAutomation.1");
msn.AutoSignin();
switch (msn.GetContact(user, msn.MyServiceId).Status) {
case 0x0000: return "unknown";
case 0x0001: return "offline";
case 0x0002: return "online";
case 0x0006: return "invisible";
case 0x000A: return "busy";
case 0x000E: return "brb";
case 0x0012: return "idle";
case 0x0022: return "away";
case 0x0032: return "phone";
case 0x0042: return "lunch";
default: return "failure";
}
}


The Messenger ActiveX object exposes a lot of ways to control your local client too... very scary if the wrong people would take 15 minutes to research it.

[Spudhead]

Interesting - I'd like to find out more about this MSM ActiveX object, but my Googling is only turning up various security alerts :thumbsup: Could you point me at a useful reference?

Ta :)


Aha - just found the Devshed article :)

[jkd]

Originally posted by Spudhead
Aha - just found the Devshed article :)

Didn't know there was one. Think you could post a link? I've always looked at the C++ interfaces on MSDN and ignored what they said was scriptable (because when they say something isn't scriptable, it generally is...)

[Drakain Zeil]

MSDN has all the info. on MSN and how to even make changes to it.

However they also manged to render MSDN useless with it's new search function. :(

[Spudhead]

Ah, sorry. My bad. It was devhood, not devshed:

http://www.devhood.com/tutorials/tutorial_details.aspx?tutorial_id=478

[SpeedFreak]

thanks for the response guys, i think i should be able to get this working :)