invisibility plugin

[hillingar]

Hi all,

Version 0.4 of the Invisibility plugin is here:

http://www.bilimfeneri.gen.tr/Invisibility-0.4.zip

To the admins: I formally completed the submission procedure a few days ago:

http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1858495&group_id=54091&atid=733148

Could you please update the plugins section of aMSN webpage?

[Fabioamd87]

Hi all,

Version 0.4 of the Invisibility plugin is here:

http://www.bilimfeneri.gen.tr/Invisibility-0.4.zip

To the admins: I formally completed the submission procedure a few days ago:

http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1858495&group_id=54091&atid=733148

Could you please update the plugins section of aMSN webpage?

this means that the mechanism now work?

[hillingar]

Hi Fabio,

The mechanism always worked, it was never broken. As I explained above, the behaviour you mentioned in the first post was not a bug, but the original plugin was designed that way. However in version 0.3 I added the option to unblock the contacts at login, except those in the "permanently blocked" list. This is preserved in version 0.4, too.

[hillingar]

It hasn't made it to the official plugins page yet, bu here is Invisibility-0.5:

http://www.bilimfeneri.gen.tr/Invisibility-0.5.zip

IMPORTANT NOTE: This will NOT work with aMSN 0.97.x. It is made for 0.98 (which is to come), and works with the current SVN.

[tatui]

Hi, there could be a catch-22 in your scenario:

We both have the Invisibility plugin. I am online, you are offline, so I block you. I go offline. Then you go online, I am offline, so you block me. Then I go online, we have each other blocked, and the only way to have someone unblocked is to appear online to the other person, which can't be, because we are both blocked. I really recommend that you add these lines to unblock all offline neutral users, but what if aMSN crashes?

Hi,

This situation still occur with me and my wife. When she go offline, I block she. When I go offline, she block me. If me or she disconnect, when reconnect, we have each other blocked and the only way to have someone unblocked is to manually unblock.

I read that there is a way to unblock all when aMSN connect to the server. Were this future implemented?

I love this plugin! It is very usefull, because a lot of time I receive a call from someone "offline" and I hate this!

What I found this "... these lines to unblock all offline neutral users, ..." code?

Thank you very much!

Tatui

[hillingar]

Hi tatui,

I used to check this forum regularly and you seem to have posted just when I gave up checking it , hence this delay...

Regarding your question: Maybe I can add that as a feature. You can achieve the behaviour you want by making the following modification in Invisibility.tcl:

Find the proc unblockNeutrals, in that proc find the line

Code:

if { $userstate != "" && $userstate != "FLN" && [lsearch -exact $::Invisibility::config(iblocklist) $user] == -1 } {

and replace it with

Code:

if { $userstate != "" &&  [lsearch -exact $::Invisibility::config(iblocklist) $user] == -1 } {

The original code unblocks all valid users who are not offline and not in the permanent block list. The modified one unblocks all valid users who are not in the permanent block list (this code is run after login).

[pc77]

In the MSN protocol there is no way to tell whether a contact is really offline or just invisible (there was a way long ago, but Microsoft changed the protocol to fix this security bug).

There´s still a very easy way to know who is in invisible mode. Try emesene with the status history plugin. Each time someone connect in invsible mode it will apear in the status history dialog. I don´t like emesene, sometimes I use it just for that function.

[alexandernst]

pc77, actually, you aren't getting anything but a SB witch could be caused by propoer MSN Servers or by a contact trying to chat with you, so, the "invisibility detector" isn't working.

[pc77]

No. My english is not very good. But it works ok except your buddie is using emesene too.

[kakaroto]

detect when someone connects as invisible is *NOT POSSIBLE*, the server may send you "X went offline" even when they were already offline, but that means *nothing*, yes, maybe that person just went invisible, maybe not, you cannot be sure.. also, people could connect as appear offline, and the server will not tell you that they went offline, it's just a glitch in the server, and it means nothing.. so please, everyone stop being stubborn, and believe me when I say it's not possible!