My current boss wanted to know if the LiveScratcher Script-to-DUI interface would work with Windows Live Messenger 8 too. I’d kept in mind that I wanted it compatible with WLM8, but hadn’t tested it yet. To my suprise, there were only two tiny (non-fatal) errors, and I could get the advertising removal script working with just one extra line.
Behold, the Windows Live Messenger 8 *and* 9 compatible advertisement patch:
//Compact method
function CL_onCreatedElement(resid, root) {
if (resid=="mainContentResID") {
var ads=root.FindDescendent("TabsAndAds") || root.FindDescendent("AdBanner");
ads.LayoutPos=-3;
}
}
//Verbose method
function Convo_onCreatedElement(resid, root) {
if (resid=="convframeresid") {
var adbannergutter=root.FindDescendent("adbannergutter");
if (adbannergutter)
adbannergutter.SetValue("LayoutPos",Value.CreateInt(-3));
}
}
//Patches contained in this file
Patches=[
{
id: "ContactListAdvert",
name: "Remove Contact-list Advertisement",
version: "1.0",
author: "A. Nonymous",
website: "http://www.google.com/",
onCreatedElement: CL_onCreatedElement
},
{
id: "ConvoTextAdvert",
name: "Remove Conversation Text Advertising",
version: "1.0",
author: "A. Nonymous",
website: "http://www.google.com/",
onCreatedElement: Convo_onCreatedElement
}
];
//Register patches
for (var i in Patches) {
RegisterPatch(Patches[i].id,Patches[i]);
}
The whole thing started off as an extension to a DUI compatibility layer I wrote for Iminent, but with every hour I stick in I’m falling in love with it more 🙂