Custom available status hotkey?

[bedoughty]

So what happened to the custom available status hotkey? Cmd + Y lets me post a custom away message, but I'd kill to have the same convenience with available messages. Any help? Thanks!

[Arenzera]

*In Austin Powers voice* Trac baby, yeah!

Kiel :-)

[bedoughty]

I checked Trac. I've been using adium for about a year now, and I've been following the development and paying attention to everyone's "RTFM before you bug us" posts. I couldn't find anything, so I figured I'd try and see if someone could help.

So much for being able to ask questions and help one another out

[dbomb]

Well, I belive he meant that there is no way to set an available message, and to make a request. You can however use an apple script to do this, and then set up a quicksilver trigger.

OK, here it is.

activate application "Adium"
tell application "Adium"
set my status message to the text returned of (display dialog "Set an available message" default answer "..." buttons {"Set", "Cancel"} default button 1)
set my status to available
end tell
end

If you want a hotkey, you'll need to get Quicksilver. (http://quicksilver.blacktree.com/)

to set it up as a hotkey, open up the preferences, click on triggers, click the plus button, and paste that in. Then hit tab, and start to type applescript. "Run as apple script" should show up, if not go to plugins, and look for it.

[bedoughty]

Uh, under the Status menu it's possible to create available messages... if you look down by the away messages there's a hotkey to bring up a dialog to create a custom away message. That hotkey is cmd + y. I could've sworn there used to be a hotkey to do the same for a custom available message, but if there is one it's disappeared from that menu and I can't figure one out.

[JediL1]

I find that Cmd + Y and then changing the "State" drop down menu to "Available" and typing a custom status message to be pretty convenient.

Do you change "Available" status messages often enough to warrant another hotkey?

[evands]

System Preferences -> Keyboard & Mouse -> Keypad Shortcuts. Set it to cmd-option-shift-a, or ctrl-option-v, or whatever makes you happy

[bedoughty]

Yea I change available states quite a bit Jedi1. I often use them to let others around the office know what's going on, and I also have a blogging job with about 100 bloggers on my list, (nevermind my buddies) so changing available and away statuses is really handy to keep them informed too. In fact adium's multi-protocol + available status support are two of the biggest reasons I use the app, as well as tabbed chatting. (Why don't more chat apps (iChat) have this?! It's 2005, not 1995!!)

Anyway, thanks evands, I'll try that later today, I have a scratched eye to attend to

[Arenzera]

I checked Trac. I've been using adium for about a year now, and I've been following the development and paying attention to everyone's "RTFM before you bug us" posts. I couldn't find anything, so I figured I'd try and see if someone could help.

So much for being able to ask questions and help one another out

I was more thinking you could add a ticket for a feature request.

Hope your eye is ok!

Kiel :-)