Accessing the "personal message"

Not 100% sure what it´s called in english version but you know, the "tagline" that doubles as "now playing".
(i wanna use both "now playing" and "tagline") I´ve tried looking trough APIs but sofar no luck. Anyone have any idea on how to do it?

[259 byte] By [ravv] at [2008-2-13]

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# 1

Ravv,

The official name for the message you're asking about is the "Personal Status Message" or PSM for short. We don't yet have an API exposed to give you programmatic access to the PSM. It's on our list and is definitely one of the most requested APIs to expose.

-Scott

ScottSwansonMSN at 2007-9-9 >

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# 2

To bad that it's not in.
but I then have a little question. how do all the plugins that DO change the message do? Are they changing the program itself? (for example http://www.winamp.com/plugins/details.php?id=144799 and lots of other ones.)

Just wondering...:s

Cristian386 at 2007-9-9 >

# 3

Those plugins and/or addons simply send a special crafted windows message to the window with class "MsnMsgrUIManager".
More on this (sourcecode) can be found here:
http://forums.msnfanatic.com/index.php?showtopic=11226
And that thread is continued (with new sourcecode) here:
http://forums.msnfanatic.com/index.php?showtopic=11311
;)

CookieRevised at 2007-9-9 >

# 4

Yea I am having a little troble with my MSN Messanger 7.5 and was wondering if anyone could help me. The problem is with the personal message. When i type a personal message and then log off its gone the next time I log back in does anyone know what i can do to fix this? I think you in advanced for your help if you can get this to work for me.

Budgolem at 2007-9-9 >

# 5

As described in the linked thread, the message to send to the Messenger now omits the format part. Why did you change the spec? Even if this API isn't officially supported, there are many applications using it. If you just don't support the format part in Live Messenger anymore, it's not an excuse to break the API, but you could just skip it.

Regards,
Thomas

ThomasFreudenberg at 2007-9-9 >

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