Avatar History Plugin

[FREAK_THEMIGHTY]

It pretty much depends on the internal protocol logic: I am just hooking a single event that is fired when a contact changes its avatar, so technically, the protocol notifies avatar history about avatar changes and not the other way. So consequently, the protocol determines when an avatar is logges, and it is up to me to filter out the duplicates, since some protocols send notifications for the same hash several times :|

PS: I saw that borkra changes something about avatars from older plugins I will recompile my miranda and test again.

[xaos]

(i really need to work on gathering all information before posting, starting to clutter things up here :P

..is avatar history creating the history entry in the database for an avatar change or is the protocol itself
creating the entry? ...

when I log on with Miranda, debug popups display messages for MSN contacts who are online and but haven't changed their avatar and no history entry is created. They're also shown for contacts who are online and have changed their avatar, and a history entry is properly created.
... at the same time, currently, when I log on, no popups are shown for FB contacts who are online at the time I sign on, and a new history entry is created for an avatar change even tho there has been no change ... (can't fully confirm history entries on status changes for FB contacts just yet)

[FREAK_THEMIGHTY]

Sorry for the delay, but here is the new Version:

. 0.0.3.1
+ Show Contact Name in Avatar History dialog title
+ Show picture path in avatar history dialog
+ support for WindowList
* fixed some issues reported by borkra
+ updated m_folders.h
* fixed duplicate avatar notifications (thanks xaos)

http://code.google.com/p/pescuma/downloads/list

xaos, this should work fine for you, I hope

[xaos]

no need for thanks, if anything i make things harder :P ...

this version is still logging an avatar change for facebook contacts who are online at the time I sign on.

*thot ... the showing picture path in avatar history dialog .. would it be possible to also make it so that that same info shows up in history++ as part of the change of avatar entry? or would that depend too much on how, or whether or not the history events, history keeper and variables plugins are being used? ...

[FREAK_THEMIGHTY]

I will test it wich facebook :)

It would be possible to show that info in History++, but why would you need it? I am not sure why this would be useful for most of the users

[xaos]

don't see why not, Avatar history already allows changes to be logged so that History++ can read them, why not also add the option to log that info as part of the same entry, ..and .. one less window to open ... could add as a variable ... %avatarpath% or something that could be inserted into the custom entries that are allowed by History events and History Keeper

and as far as current logging with this version, so far, no extra logs for Facebook contacts on their status changes, only on personal sign in ... seems like the log is being entered before the hash check has finished, timestamps and hashes are all the same between backup and next days sign on

[FREAK_THEMIGHTY]

About the avatar path in options: Can you test this one please?
I am not using History++, so its hard for me to test it.

About Facebook: There seems to be a bug, I will look at it

PS: I changed the debug popup method - now you can create the BYTE setting "Debug" with DBEditor in Settings -> "Avatar History" - any non-zero value enables debug popups now, so I do not have to deal with two different builds :)

[xaos]

where or what exactly is the option for avatar path that you added? ... do you use History events and History keeper?

Facebook .. no debug popups .. it's a strange thing, betweeen contacts 'on the phone' (mobile facebook app?), contacts 'online', and what their status was before I signed off and when I sign on again, there may or may not be a avatar change logged. and yes, am also looking at avatar history's own window. ... would imagine FB protocol may return a different result for contacts 'On the Phone', so it seems that a status check might be needed in order to determine whether or not to check for an avatar change

PS: smart thot on the debug byte

[FREAK_THEMIGHTY]

where or what exactly is the option for avatar path that you added? ... do you use History events and History keeper?

There is no option, it should work out of the box. You might have to use History Events plugin, or are you getting images in H++ without it?

Facebook .. no debug popups .. it's a strange thing, betweeen contacts 'on the phone' (mobile facebook app?), contacts 'online', and what their status was before I signed off and when I sign on again, there may or may not be a avatar change logged. and yes, am also looking at avatar history's own window. ... would imagine FB protocol may return a different result for contacts 'On the Phone', so it seems that a status check might be needed in order to determine whether or not to check for an avatar change

What does this have to do with status of the contact?
Did you set that BYTE?

[xaos]

..only reason I've bothered posting is cause I'm too lazy to learn VB or the internal coding of Miranda ... for a dev to miss the point means either I write a novel, or it's time to put up with whatever state things are currently in until I feel like learning to fix it myself ... thank you for trying, I won't be wasting anymore of your time.