Re: Fwd: Re: [Amsn-devel] possible wishlist...

2006-01-25 Thread Youness Alaoui
it seems it's different from what I though (older than a year, so I have the right to forget the exact content :P) although I think there are some other mails on the same thread that answer our original request... anyways, it gives an idea on how we would be able to override the skins' settin

Re: [Amsn-devel] Fwd: InfoPen MSN API

2006-01-25 Thread Youness Alaoui
yes! great idea! since we're able to receive them correctly, problem is just in sending them!!! I would need people who are willing to do this, to find out exactly what bytes changed and which of these bytes represent the ISF, and being able to extract the ISF and be able to view the extracte

Re: [Amsn-devel] Re: [Amsn-commits] msn config.tcl,1.317,1.318 gui.tcl,1.1205,1.1206 preferences.tcl,1.100,1.101

2006-01-25 Thread Youness Alaoui
This will be fixed tomorrow.. it seems that Vivia was in a 'killing spree'.. she was so fed up with all the comments and suggestions over this feature "that noone wants", that she decided to delete the code and forget about it... let's hope she calmed down enough to be able to get some rest a

[Amsn-devel] Re: [Amsn-commits] msn config.tcl,1.317,1.318 gui.tcl,1.1205,1.1206 preferences.tcl,1.100,1.101

2006-01-25 Thread Jérôme Gagnon-Voyer
Did I (we) miss a discussion on IRC or something? :PLe 25 janvier 2006 à 18:53, Vivia Nikolaidou a écrit : No more display pictures in contact list

Re: [Amsn-devel] a flash player for winks

2006-01-25 Thread GrdScarabe
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Youness Alaoui wrote: > we'll just send prebuilt winks... > also, if the flash has to be signed, then we can't do this, and noone > else can either unless they go through M$.. so maybe there's a > website/service they offer for creating winks after mak

Fwd: Re: [Amsn-devel] possible wishlist...

2006-01-25 Thread Youness Alaoui
AT LAST!!! the second forward... now, you go look in SF archives for this thread, and read it, a lot of ideas were sent there... KKRT --- Forwarded message --- From: "Youness Alaoui" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: amsn-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Amsn-devel] possible wishlist

Re: [Amsn-devel] Fwd: InfoPen MSN API

2006-01-25 Thread Vivia Nikolaidou
> ISF is an undocumented and complex vector format, it has 2 forms, > compressed and uncompressed. We study very hard to decode the format, > and knew the uncompressed form only at current time. The compression > algorithm is so hard to understand without any referenced document. > > MSN can t

[Amsn-devel] Fwd: InfoPen MSN API

2006-01-25 Thread Youness Alaoui
one forward down... --- Forwarded message --- From: "Michael Su" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: InfoPen MSN API Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2004 00:05:25 -0500 Dear Mr. Youness, ISF is an undocumented and complex vector format, it has 2 forms, compressed and uncompressed. W

Re: [Amsn-devel] [Amsn-commits] msn gui.tcl,1.1202,1.1203

2006-01-25 Thread Youness Alaoui
aie aie aie.. we're going too far in this... first, Tom, the sash thing will not generate any "why can't I resize anymore", it's a "sash look" option, not a "disable sash".. even if it's width is set to 0, the sash is still there, it's just it's 'reliefed part' that disappears... and I agree,

Re: [Amsn-devel] [Amsn-commits] msn gui.tcl,1.1202,1.1203

2006-01-25 Thread Tom Jenkins
Jérôme Gagnon-Voyer wrote: And I supose that all the options you want to remove from skins will move inside the preferences? I didn't say I wanted to remove all the skin settings, I said I thought that some could be set by user & skin. Small stuff that only 'advanced' users want could go i

Re: [Amsn-devel] a flash player for winks

2006-01-25 Thread Youness Alaoui
we'll just send prebuilt winks... also, if the flash has to be signed, then we can't do this, and noone else can either unless they go through M$.. so maybe there's a website/service they offer for creating winks after making sure the file doesn't have any virus or whatever.. maybe you'll fi

Re: [Amsn-devel] New plugin on CVS organize_received

2006-01-25 Thread Youness Alaoui
ok, sorry I missed this email before answering your previous one..thanks for answering this (Arieh asking the same question as me:P).. I understand your point.. little comment : maybe you should have asked on the ML before taking the decision (you're admin, so you have the *power* to make d

Re: [Amsn-devel] New plugin on CVS organize_received

2006-01-25 Thread Youness Alaoui
huumm.. Ithough Thomas added it already, anyways, he requested plugin devels to send him the plugin directly to his email, if that author didn't send it to Thomas, then the plugin was not added.. Jerome.. question.. why added it in CVS ? I though that CVS was just for devels or plugins in deve

Re: [Amsn-devel] Workaround for Inkdraw in windows with journal (fwd)

2006-01-25 Thread Youness Alaoui
If I remember correctly, what they tried first was to add the comments from one image into another image and see which one was displayed (the gif, or the ISF from the comments).. so they know about this.. I think what they are saying is "the comments contain some binary data, as well as some

Re: [Amsn-devel] patch for protocol.tcl (adding typer to PostEventPacketReceived)

2006-01-25 Thread Youness Alaoui
great idea :) anyways, no matter what you use, I just think you are right on what you said, even if it's not used by anyone, the typer should be sent to make sure our API is complete.. KKRT On Tue, 24 Jan 2006 18:51:00 -0500, Jérôme Gagnon-Voyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: So you don't

Re: [Amsn-devel] OT: Re: [Amsn-commits] msn/lang langes,1.249,1.250

2006-01-25 Thread Youness Alaoui
lol... calm damn!! and he just said I shocked him and I should learn to control myself :P lol take it easy please :) KKRT On Wed, 25 Jan 2006 15:26:15 -0500, Vivia Nikolaidou <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wed, 25 Jan 2006, Alvaro J. Iradier Muro wrote: Update of /cvsroot/amsn/msn/lang

Re: [Amsn-devel] [Amsn-commits] msn gui.tcl,1.1201,1.1202 (fwd)

2006-01-25 Thread Youness Alaoui
On Wed, 25 Jan 2006 17:08:02 -0500, Vivia Nikolaidou <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wed, 25 Jan 2006, Youness Alaoui wrote: although Vivia seems to hate one-line procs, I would say it's a good idea... you see Vivia, a one line proc : proc hasDp ( user ) { return [::abook::getContactData

Re: [Amsn-devel] [Amsn-commits] msn gui.tcl,1.1202,1.1203

2006-01-25 Thread Jérôme Gagnon-Voyer
And I supose that all the options you want to remove from skins will move inside the preferences?Simplicity is the key, someone opens aMSN, he doesn't need to start going to preferences to adjust 10 settings that normally skins should take care of. I don't like that. If they really want to change t

Re: [Amsn-devel] Games plugin - Poll

2006-01-25 Thread Youness Alaoui
cool.. but no matter what, no matter how BIG/BOLD/ITALIC/UNDERLINED you put it, even with a flashing message popping at amsn startup if plugin is loaded... anyways, we'll get sutpid n00bs saying "it doesn't work with MSN" or "are you aware of the plugin having issues with msn users?" or "it

Re: [Amsn-devel] [Amsn-commits] msn gui.tcl,1.1202,1.1203

2006-01-25 Thread Tom Jenkins
Youness Alaoui wrote: ohh well, interesting talk.. I though of that and though of having a message say "do you want your settings to be reverted to the skins' settnigs" whenever you change the skin, just in case you choose a skin, and you overrode everything so the skin looks bad, all that

Re: [Amsn-devel] [Amsn-commits] msn gui.tcl,1.1201,1.1202 (fwd)

2006-01-25 Thread Vivia Nikolaidou
On Wed, 25 Jan 2006, Youness Alaoui wrote: > although Vivia seems to hate one-line procs, I would say it's a good idea... > you see Vivia, a one line proc : > proc hasDp ( user ) { > return [::abook::getContactData $user displaypicfile ""] != "" > } You missed it... I just purged saved displa

Re: [Amsn-devel] [Amsn-commits] msn gui.tcl,1.1201,1.1202 (fwd)

2006-01-25 Thread Youness Alaoui
although Vivia seems to hate one-line procs, I would say it's a good idea... you see Vivia, a one line proc : proc hasDp ( user ) { return [::abook::getContactData $user displaypicfile ""] != "" } yes, a one line proc, but then you would have only searched for "dp" in abook.tcl and found

Re: [Amsn-devel] [Amsn-commits] msn gui.tcl,1.1202,1.1203

2006-01-25 Thread Youness Alaoui
ohh well, interesting talk.. I though of that and though of having a message say "do you want your settings to be reverted to the skins' settnigs" whenever you change the skin, just in case you choose a skin, and you overrode everything so the skin looks bad, all that because you didn't thi

Re: [Amsn-devel] [Amsn-commits] msn gui.tcl,1.1201,1.1202 (fwd)

2006-01-25 Thread Youness Alaoui
This is what I suggested to Vivia, only, she's lost, so I'm sending it over here in case someone understands what Imean, I'll look at it tomorrow I guess ... label -image [getBuddyForUser $user_login $state] proc getBuddyForUser { user state } { if { config:getKey DP_in_CL == 1 } { return

Re: [Amsn-devel] [Amsn-commits] msn gui.tcl,1.1202,1.1203

2006-01-25 Thread Tom Jenkins
Tom Jenkins wrote: a skin option won't goive the skinner this if it's going to be overridden by a skin option. Sorry, here I meant "a skin option won't give the skinner this if it's going to be overriden by what the user chooses" Now, I can kinda understand if this was a setting relating

Re: [Amsn-devel] [Amsn-commits] msn gui.tcl,1.1202,1.1203

2006-01-25 Thread Tom Jenkins
I know I talked to Youness briefly about this before, but what the hell is the point of having an option that both the user and the skin can set??? The skinner shouldn't care whether display pictures or little fat buddy pixmaps are shown on the contactlist, it's the user that cares. The ski

Re: [Amsn-devel] [Amsn-commits] msn gui.tcl,1.1201,1.1202 (fwd)

2006-01-25 Thread Vivia Nikolaidou
> > if { [::abook::getContactData $user_login displaypicfile ""] != "" } > > > > Youness... don't make things complicated :P > > > > what complicated ?? that's what I told you to do!!! :'( > well, I said it after I gave you a similar solution (::abook::getVolatileData > $user_login msnobj) I h

Re: [Amsn-devel] [Amsn-commits] msn gui.tcl,1.1201,1.1202 (fwd)

2006-01-25 Thread Youness Alaoui
On Wed, 25 Jan 2006 13:41:14 -0500, Vivia Nikolaidou <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wed, 25 Jan 2006, Vivia Nikolaidou wrote: > TO-DO: 1) fallback to default buddy icon if no DP available 2) detect if > the user has changed the DP How can I check if a user has a DP set? I mean, apart fro

[Amsn-devel] OT: Re: [Amsn-commits] msn/lang langes,1.249,1.250

2006-01-25 Thread Vivia Nikolaidou
On Wed, 25 Jan 2006, Alvaro J. Iradier Muro wrote: > Update of /cvsroot/amsn/msn/lang > In directory sc8-pr-cvs1.sourceforge.net:/tmp/cvs-serv14624 > > Modified Files: > langes > Log Message: > Fucking translators, they keep on fucking the spanish translation I > already made. Please stop

Re: [Amsn-devel] [Amsn-commits] msn gui.tcl,1.1201,1.1202 (fwd)

2006-01-25 Thread GrdScarabe
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Vivia Nikolaidou wrote: >> TO-DO: 1) fallback to default buddy icon if no DP available 2) detect if >> the user has changed the DP > > How can I check if a user has a DP set? I mean, apart from comparing the > data of the DP with the data of getNoDP

Re: [Amsn-devel] Workaround for Inkdraw in windows with journal (fwd)

2006-01-25 Thread GrdScarabe
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Le Philousophe - Phil wrote: > Well, > it's really simple : what is an ink ? > a set of dots tied each others... > So in ISF you have dots and parameters of the lines... > That's all. > The name let me think of a system called Serialization in C++ : op

Re: [Amsn-devel] Workaround for Inkdraw in windows with journal (fwd)

2006-01-25 Thread Le Philousophe - Phil
Well, it's really simple : what is an ink ? a set of dots tied each others... So in ISF you have dots and parameters of the lines... That's all. The name let me think of a system called Serialization in C++ : operator << I think it loops on each line and do a << and each line in this operator do a

Re: [Amsn-devel] [Amsn-commits] msn gui.tcl,1.1201,1.1202 (fwd)

2006-01-25 Thread Vivia Nikolaidou
On Wed, 25 Jan 2006, Vivia Nikolaidou wrote: > > > TO-DO: 1) fallback to default buddy icon if no DP available 2) detect if > > the user has changed the DP > > How can I check if a user has a DP set? I mean, apart from comparing the > data of the DP with the data of getNoDP... :D > if { [::a

Re: [Amsn-devel] [Amsn-commits] msn gui.tcl,1.1201,1.1202 (fwd)

2006-01-25 Thread Vivia Nikolaidou
> TO-DO: 1) fallback to default buddy icon if no DP available 2) detect if > the user has changed the DP How can I check if a user has a DP set? I mean, apart from comparing the data of the DP with the data of getNoDP... :D --- This SF.net e

Re: [Amsn-devel] [Amsn-commits] msn gui.tcl,1.1201,1.1202 (fwd)

2006-01-25 Thread Vivia Nikolaidou
SORRY Jonne, SORRY! :( I did manage to forget to give you credits on the commit! :( But it was like my dad coming with the vacuum cleaner "you have to get up now", right when I started typing "cvs commit", so I told him "wait a moment, let me finish typing this" and I realized as soon as I got

Re: [Amsn-devel] Games plugin - Poll

2006-01-25 Thread Jérôme Gagnon-Voyer
It's just a small detail but I just said it so you can keep it in mind  ;-)Le 25 janvier 2006 à 11:21, Jonne Zutt a écrit :Ok you mean at sf's plugin tracker. Ah, silly me... I can of course just close the whole thing and recreate a new one. Then I can write a new summary. I will do that soon.

Re: [Amsn-devel] Games plugin - Poll

2006-01-25 Thread Jonne Zutt
Ok you mean at sf's plugin tracker. Ah, silly me... I can of course just close the whole thing and recreate a new one. Then I can write a new summary. I will do that soon. JeeBee. > In the page you ask for people for download, I know it's clear inside > plugininfo.xml, but not on the web. > Le

Re: [Amsn-devel] New plugin on CVS organize_received

2006-01-25 Thread Jérôme Gagnon-Voyer
Yes we decided that a long time ago and it sucks... By example, when we change code in aMSN and it affects plugin, we just have to grep on all plugins in CVS and modify everything at the same time (we did that a lot of time), but if the plugin is not on CVS...the plugin lost compatibility.

Re: [Amsn-devel] Workaround for Inkdraw in windows with journal (fwd)

2006-01-25 Thread Cristian Peraferrer
What a mess, you're right. I have noticed that the MSN reads the ISF part, if the user have Journal Viewer. Now, we have to discover how the ISF are made... One thing we can observe is that ISF format needs less space to represent the GIF. Now I enumerate things we can supose about ISF format:

Re: [Amsn-devel] Games plugin - Poll

2006-01-25 Thread Jérôme Gagnon-Voyer
In the page you ask for people for download, I know it's clear inside plugininfo.xml, but not on the web.Le 25 janvier 2006 à 03:44, Jonne Zutt a écrit : It already says so in plugin description (plugininfo.xml). Where more do you want to see it? If you would try to invite an ms-msn person, you'll

Re: [Amsn-devel] [Amsn-commits] msn gui.tcl,1.1201,1.1202 (fwd)

2006-01-25 Thread Tom Jenkins
Vivia Nikolaidou wrote: Thanx Karel! Does it really slow down your cl that much? :S Mine is still very fast! Now there's just the option about the picture's size - Jerome said M$N has many options for the size, can anyone with M$N tell me what there is? Or leave just 22 as default (same as b

[Amsn-devel] User submitted skins and plugins

2006-01-25 Thread Jonne Zutt
Hi all, In addition ... I think we have to look at others how to organize this. I foresee a growth in the number of plugins. They should be categorized I think. Maybe by adding (a list of) keywords to plugininfo.xml? Something like this: (firefox extensions) https://addons.mozilla.org/extensions/

[Amsn-devel] User submitted skins and plugins

2006-01-25 Thread Shahnewaz Shahidi
Hey guys, While reading the organize received plugin thread, i was thinking, is there any way we could have a clean list (maybe a text file) of all the skins and plugins, not in the cvs, on the website? This way it would be easier to upgrade all of the stuff with a simple piece of code instead of h

Re: [Amsn-devel] New plugin on CVS organize_received

2006-01-25 Thread Arieh Schneier
Was there a reason you put it into cvs? Didn't we decide that we would only put plugins written by developers into cvs, and the rest would just have the zip on the website? Lio. - Original Message - From: "Jérôme Gagnon-Voyer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "aMSN" Cc: "Nilton Volpato" <[EMAIL

Re: [Amsn-devel] [Amsn-commits] msn gui.tcl,1.1201,1.1202 (fwd)

2006-01-25 Thread Arieh Schneier
Now that its already added I can't see the problem with leaving it there, maybe just fix up the creation of the images. I ran some timing tests to see the difference, with the images shown it took 883750 microseconds (0.9 sec) to refresh, and without the images it took 688647 microseconds (0.7 sec

Re: [Amsn-devel] Forums moved

2006-01-25 Thread Lee Olson
We resolved the situation, and no, he's not going to attack the new forums. He respects our work and is moving on to other things in his life. ~Lee On 1/25/06, Lz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What happened with yves then? maybe he tries to attack the new forums... > > > On 1/25/06, Vivia Nikolai

[Amsn-devel] Re: Re: [Amsn-commits] msn gui.tcl,1.1200,1.1201

2006-01-25 Thread JeeBee
In my (anon) cvs now I see this in gui.tcl (line 36 and 5590): ::skin::setKey show_contactdps_in_cl 0 if {[::config::getKey show_contactdps_in_cl] == "1"} { So, it sets a skin key, and it gets a config key. Cannot make up my mind really ... I think it should be a skin key ! And my local ver

Re: [Amsn-devel] [Amsn-commits] msn gui.tcl,1.1201,1.1202 (fwd)

2006-01-25 Thread Arieh Schneier
I started this message earlier but didnt get a chance to finish it. I was going to say something along similar lines. Here is the start and I will also finish it (so below 'this code' refers to the commit): The major problem with this code is that you recreate all the images every reload of the co

[Amsn-devel] [Amsn-commits] msn gui.tcl,1.1201,1.1202 (fwd)

2006-01-25 Thread Vivia Nikolaidou
Thanx Karel! Does it really slow down your cl that much? :S Mine is still very fast! Now there's just the option about the picture's size - Jerome said M$N has many options for the size, can anyone with M$N tell me what there is? Or leave just 22 as default (same as buddy's height on default s

Re: [Amsn-devel] Forums moved

2006-01-25 Thread Lz
What happened with yves then? maybe he tries to attack the new forums...On 1/25/06, Vivia Nikolaidou <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote:For those who are not subscribed to the forums:They are moved to http://amsn.sourceforge.net/forums/I sent a mass email to notify everyone who is subscribed, but I also n

Re: [Amsn-devel] [Amsn-commits] msn gui.tcl,1.1201,1.1202 (fwd)

2006-01-25 Thread Jonne Zutt
> Does it really slow down your cl that much? :S Mine is still very fast! Mine too, and yes, at least I like this feature :P > Also, can anyone think of a way to make it faster? I was thinking about this. What we don't want is "image create" and "resize" each time. So, if it is done, store its

Re: [Amsn-devel] [Amsn-commits] msn gui.tcl,1.1201,1.1202 (fwd)

2006-01-25 Thread Vivia Nikolaidou
Does anyone actually want this feature or shall I just go ahead and remove it? :) Personally, I don't go crazy about it, I think I'll just disable it anyway, it's just that many users were requesting it and Lee had started working on it already. But, if everyone dislikes it, I just remove the

Re: [Amsn-devel] Games plugin - Poll

2006-01-25 Thread Jonne Zutt
Hi Jérôme, > You should specify that your plugin is not compatible with MSN users > because I know we will get a lot of messages "the games plugins is > not working with my friends on windows" or something like that. It already says so in plugin description (plugininfo.xml). Where more do you