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.<\/p>\n
Behold, the Windows Live Messenger 8 *and* 9 compatible advertisement patch:<\/p>\n
\r\n\/\/Compact method\r\nfunction CL_onCreatedElement(resid, root) {\r\n\tif (resid=="mainContentResID") {\r\n\t\tvar ads=root.FindDescendent("TabsAndAds") || root.FindDescendent("AdBanner");\r\n\t\tads.LayoutPos=-3;\r\n\t}\r\n}\r\n\r\n\/\/Verbose method\r\nfunction Convo_onCreatedElement(resid, root) {\r\n\tif (resid=="convframeresid") {\r\n\t\tvar adbannergutter=root.FindDescendent("adbannergutter");\r\n\t\tif (adbannergutter)\r\n\t\t\tadbannergutter.SetValue("LayoutPos",Value.CreateInt(-3));\r\n\t}\r\n}\r\n\r\n\/\/Patches contained in this file\r\nPatches=[\r\n\t{\r\n\t\tid: "ContactListAdvert",\r\n\t\tname: "Remove Contact-list Advertisement",\r\n\t\tversion: "1.0",\r\n\t\tauthor: "A. Nonymous",\r\n\t\twebsite: "http:\/\/www.google.com\/",\r\n\t\tonCreatedElement: CL_onCreatedElement\r\n\t},\r\n\t{\r\n\t\tid: "ConvoTextAdvert",\r\n\t\tname: "Remove Conversation Text Advertising",\r\n\t\tversion: "1.0",\r\n\t\tauthor: "A. Nonymous",\r\n\t\twebsite: "http:\/\/www.google.com\/",\r\n\t\tonCreatedElement: Convo_onCreatedElement\r\n\t}\r\n];\r\n\/\/Register patches\r\nfor (var i in Patches) {\r\n\tRegisterPatch(Patches[i].id,Patches[i]);\r\n}\r\n<\/pre>\nThe 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 \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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