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[req] finish this script to hide messages when away
Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2008 11:43 pm
by trashrockx
So I searched on here for a way to hide messages when set to away, WITHOUT having to hide all of adium...needless to say it isn't possible yet, but I came across this script someone did (im sorry I forgot who
) and it's not exactly working, but its a pretty good start.
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tell application "Adium"
if my status is away or (my status is away and idle) then
set mywindows to windows
repeat with i from 1 to number of items in mywindows
set awindow to item i of windows
if (name of item i of windows as string is not "Contacts") then
set miniaturized of item i of windows to true
end if
end repeat
end if
end tell
Noone replied to him to say if the code is terrible or almost there or anything, and it was an old thread, so I'm resubmitting it for evaluation kinda, cause I would really like that functionality. Can anyone say if this is a possibility? Or just tell me it won't work and why please?
Thanks
Re: [req] finish this script to hide messages when away
Posted: Thu Apr 03, 2008 5:48 am
by mtimmsj
So basically you want a script that you can invoke in some way that minimizes or hides all the windows except the contact window? This request is complicated by the fact that statuses are dependent on the account. You can have multiple accounts online and have different statuses for each account.
To remove some of this complication you can simply look at the status type of the account of the active chat.
This should work:
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tell application "Adium"
if status type of account of the active chat is away then
tell chat windows to set minimized to true
end if
end tell
Re: [req] finish this script to hide messages when away
Posted: Mon Apr 07, 2008 2:36 am
by trashrockx
that works great! thanx...unfortunately can't hide JUST the message window b/c if you change the script to set hide true then it hides everything but this is perfect. thank you.
Re: [req] finish this script to hide messages when away
Posted: Mon Apr 07, 2008 4:48 pm
by mtimmsj
One minor variation so that you can get even the preferences window to minimize if it's open:
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tell application "Adium"
if status type of account of the active chat is away then
repeat with oneWindow in windows
if name of oneWindow is not "Contacts" and name of oneWindow is not "" then
tell oneWindow to set minimized to true
end if
end repeat
end if
end tell
If you forget to exclude windows with empty names, all kinds of weirdness happens.
