I haven't had a chance to download the Final Release of version 7.0 but I have a question for anyone who is now using the final release. I noticed in the V7.0RC1 that when you would put a MSN buddy name in your profile that it would not show a MSN Button when you post like AOL and Yahoo. Was that bug fixed in the Final Release Version?

Also I notice that none of the buttons appear on the board here. Is there something that the Administrator has to set in the Admin Menu to enable / disable that feature?

I have v7.0 now installed, but now, none of the buttons for Yahoo, AOL, or MSN will show up. In v7.0RC1 at least Yahoo and AIM would show up.

Is anyone else having the same problem or have you just not noticed it yet! Someone help please!!!

It appears the icons only show in the profile display if a user has entered the details.

Do you mean they aren't displaying under the post with the rest of the user icons?

Yeah they don't display under the post where the other icons are. I don't know if it is designed to do that though. If not that would be a nice mod.

But in the profile MSN will not show up. I notice some of the code is missing in the pop_up_profile. asp file. Look next to where the Yahoo and AIM are. The MSN line does not reference the msn.gif file like the others reference their respective files.

I am going to continue working on this problem, or maybe someone else will beat me to it! Either way hope someone comes up with a fix for the profile and also a mod to show it under the post would be AWESOME!

>>Yeah they don't display under the post where the other icons are. I don't know if it is designed to do that though. If not that would be a nice mod.<<

It is not--they are located on the persons profile.  The reason is because with the standard buttons there just isn't enough room to display them all under each post.

Mike

The MSN one in the profile is shown as text and not a button like yahoo, aol, etc. this is because with AOL, yahoo, etc. they link to things, with MSN there is nothing available to link to, so a button would be no good as you wouldn't be able to see the MSN users name to be able to add it to your MSN messenger.

I see what your saying, but just wondering why was the msn.gif button that exist in the forum_images folder created then? Was that something that was just thrown in there before creating the profile layout or was something else originally in mind?

I think maybe there is still someway it can be used though. Still working on ideas. If anyone else figures something out I would greatly appreciate it!

An idea is another line under the one that currently exist under post. Allow the different messenger buttons to appear if a user has given usernames.

Look something like this: Maybe?

IM Service:

I guess no one cares about this issue. I seem to be the only one who thinks this should be added. Hmmmmm....

Only reason I would like to add this is because a lot of my users are MSN messenger users.

Thanks!

I went in and changed line 365 in the pop_up_profile.asp file from the following:

<td background="<% = strTableProfileBgImage %>" bgcolor="<% =(strTableRowProfileColour) %>" class="text"><% If strMSNAddress <> "" Then Response.Write(strMSNAddress) Else Response.Write(strTxtNotGiven) %></td>

To:

<td background="<% = strTableProfileBgImage %>" bgcolor="<% =(strTableRowProfileColour) %>" class="text"><% If strMSNAddress <> "" Then Response.Write(("<img src=""" & strImagePath & "msn.gif""  border=""0"" align=""absmiddle"" alt=""" & strMSNAddress & """></a>&nbsp") & (strMSNAddress)) Else Response.Write(strTxtNotGiven) %></td>

The result that will appear in the profile if a user enters an MSN Messenger user name and will look like this:

 username@msn.com

instead of just:

username@msn.com

I know nothing fancy just thought since the buttons there I would like to use it.

I noticed on Invision Board Forums that they have listed all the instant messenger buttons at the bottom of post and also you can click on the MSN Messenger button and it sends a message through the MSN Messenger service to that user. Does anyone know the code they used to achieve this?

http://forums.invisionpower.com/index.php?showtopic=7737 - http://forums.invisionpower.com/index.php?showtopic=7737

Looks like a good feature... but I wonder... MSN can't send a message if the receiver is offline.... how will this script work... do the user have to be online?

I'm not sure. I wish I could find some documentation on the MSN features and also get some insight as to how they coded this feature at Invision.

Found this article on how to put MSN Messenger in your site.

http://www.activeserverpages.ca/HOWTO/Messenger.asp - http://www.activeserverpages.ca/HOWTO/Messenger.asp

Okay so here's an update. Yeah still working on this Mod for my forum. I have added the extra bar below the post to show if the author has any im services.

But to allow it to appear or not appear depending on the author requires a check to see if the author has given any im service info just as in the profile_up_profile form. Now my question is how do I check the database to see if the posters author has given an im service?

I tried to follow the same way as in the pop_up_profile but can't figure out how to query the database and match the author with their profile settings.

Can anyone help?

Getting close to completion, but still cannot connect within the forum_post.asp page separate from the current query that is already there, so I can perform a query to check if a author has an im service.

Anyone have any ideas?

http://www.maddogs-asp.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=517&PN=2 - This thread  over at MadDogs discussed showing the MSN status on a webpage.  Some interesting resources there, but bottom line is that it's a difficult thing to do...dig through those messages a bit.  

http://www.maddogs-asp.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=517&PN=2 -  

I am getting no where with this one. I have searched everywhere and seems like MSN Messenger is a bear of a hassle to integrate into a forum. I guess that's why none of the forum applications you see out there have an integrated MSN Messenger feature!

Well I gave it a shot. Maybe someone else will pick up the torch in the future!

~ Peace ~

Found this but don't know if it can be used to show the MSN status on WWF.

http://www.lifelesspeople.com:4000 - http://www.lifelesspeople.com:4000

808Rider wrote: I noticed on Invision Board Forums that they have listed all the instant messenger buttons at the bottom of post and also you can click on the MSN Messenger button and it sends a message through the MSN Messenger service to that user. Does anyone know the code they used to achieve this? http://forums.invisionpower.com/index.php?showtopic=7737 - http://forums.invisionpower.com/index.php?showtopic=7737

If they can do it so can we I have tried with no luck so I'm sure

 hoping some of the experts here will figure this one out soon it would

 complete the pop up profile!!!Ive spent at least 20 hours with no luck 

WAKO

I'm interested in a fix for this.

I'm getting an error message when trying to
click on the AIM button
( A required .DLL file, OSCRES.DLL was not found )

What is supposed to happen when you click on this?
Is it supposed to open AIM?
Or just reveal the AIM name?

I have a forum for all my friends so everyone knows
each other and would use this feature if it worked.

Any comments??

when you click the "AIM" button i think it uses the AIM link to open up a AIM Message window with a pre-writen message sayin "hello *username*, you there?"

the error might be becose you dont have AIM installed, or you dont have a Browser that supports the link

make sure you have AIM installed, and make sure you have the latest version of your browser

What about a site Messegner?

Something line this: http://www22.brinkster.com/flashaspim/default.asp - http://www22.brinkster.com/flashaspim/default.asp