IM Trace and Dot Commands
A new version of Gus Verdun’s RX-Plugin is now available. This release adds two new features: IM Trace and Dot Commands. You can use the IM Trace window to help you create and debug your own custom rules. The window looks like this:
As you can see, this is helpful in debugging your rules and also to see what the markup looks like when you send a particular message (this trace window shows what sending a smiley looks like; notice there is no image.). All of the parameters that go along with the IM are also displayed (Sans the expression items; i’ll add those in a later release.)
Dot commands are used to control parts of the RX-Plugin’s UI. You type them into any IM compose window and press send to invoke them. The plug-in will intercept these messages and process them without sending them to your buddy. You can now open the RX-Plugin Settings window by sending “.rx” in any IM compose window. The IM Trace window can also be controlled in this way. See the feature notes for more details. Enjoy.
November 15th, 2006 at 5:37 pm
Any chance of IM Trace on incoming messages as well?
Somebody was using Miranda the other day and their messages weren’t showing up properly. IM Trace would have been useful to easily see exactly what they were sending.
November 15th, 2006 at 7:35 pm
Yes. The preferences for the IM Trace window let you configure the logging of incoming and outgoing messages.
November 15th, 2006 at 8:10 pm
Matthew, I noticed the link to your bot. AIM 6.0 supports offline messaging (AKA Offline IMs). This lets you send IMs to offline users. These messages will appear when they sign-on. The only caveats are that the recipient has to have you in their Buddy List and also enable the reception of offline messages (on by default.) You can send them only from the AIM 6.0 client but they will be received by all previous client versions when they sign-on. Thanks.