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May Fortune Be My IM Status.
// Tired of having others have cooler status on their IM clients,
// I decided that I shall put an end to that.
// Yet, I am no factory of coolness, but I figured my favorite buddy,
// "fortune" will help me out a little.
// By the way, this tool can definitely be done much better with regard
// to the way it updates the MSN, but hey, I just wanted to play with
// C#. My first time :P
// BTW, the MSN thing works only if you have your MSN not minimized PLUS
// the toolbar showing. (LAME! I know.)
// If you really want to do it right, use http://www.xihsolutions.net/dotmsn/
// and send me the code ;) bhtek@yahoo.com
using Microsoft.Win32;
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Windows.Automation;
using System.Runtime.InteropServices;
namespace ZenStatusUpdater
{
class Program
{
[DllImport("USER32.DLL", EntryPoint = "FindWindowA", CallingConvention = CallingConvention.StdCall)]
private static extern IntPtr FindWindow(string sClassName, string sWindowName);
[DllImport("USER32.DLL", EntryPoint = "PostMessageA", CallingConvention = CallingConvention.StdCall)]
private static extern bool PostMessage(IntPtr hWnd, uint iMsg, long wParam, long lParam);
static void exploreElement(AutomationElement sub)
{
foreach (AutomationProperty prop in sub.GetSupportedProperties())
{
Console.WriteLine("\tProp[" + prop.ProgrammaticName + "]: " + sub.GetCurrentPropertyValue(prop));
}
foreach (AutomationPattern pat in sub.GetSupportedPatterns())
{
Console.WriteLine("\tPat[" + pat.ProgrammaticName + "]");
}
}
static void explore(AutomationElement el)
{
Console.WriteLine("Self...");
exploreElement(el);
foreach (AutomationElement sub in el.FindAll(TreeScope.Descendants, Condition.TrueCondition))
{
Console.WriteLine("Sub...");
exploreElement(sub);
}
}
static void Main(string[] args)
{
String fortune = null;
int tries = 0;
do
{
fortune = GetFortune();
tries++;
} while (fortune.Length > 130);
Console.WriteLine("Try #" + tries + ": " + fortune);
updateMsnStatus(fortune);
updateYahooStatus(fortune);
System.Threading.Thread.Sleep(5000);
}
protected static void updateYahooStatus(String fortune)
{
// Get the current signed in user
//
string sUserName = "bhtek";
Console.WriteLine("The currently logged in user is " + sUserName);
// Now open the current user's profile and set the current status message, pass true to
// OpenSubKey to request write access
RegistryKey keyYahooCustomMessages = Registry.CurrentUser.OpenSubKey("Software\\Yahoo\\Pager\\profiles\\"
+ sUserName + "\\Custom Msgs", true);
// Set the 5th message, seems like yahoo messenger has the functionality to move the newly set
// message up as the first one.
String status = fortune;
keyYahooCustomMessages.SetValue("5", status);
byte[] statusBin = (new ASCIIEncoding()).GetBytes(status);
keyYahooCustomMessages.SetValue("5_bin", (byte[])statusBin);
keyYahooCustomMessages.Close();
// We are done setting the value in the registry. We now need to notify y! of this change
//
// Find the yahoo messenger window and sent it the notification
// 0x111: WM_COMMAND
// 0x188: Code 392
IntPtr hWndY = FindWindow("YahooBuddyMain", null);
System.Diagnostics.Debug.WriteLine("Find window got: " + hWndY.ToString());
PostMessage(hWndY, 0x111, 0x188, 0);
}
protected static void updateMsnStatus(String fortune)
{
AutomationElementCollection msnWindows = AutomationElement.RootElement.FindAll(TreeScope.Children, new PropertyCondition(AutomationElement.ClassNameProperty, "MSBLWindowClass"));
if (msnWindows.Count > 1)
{
foreach (AutomationElement potentialMsn in msnWindows)
{
exploreElement(potentialMsn);
}
return;
}
AutomationElement msn = msnWindows[0];
msn.SetFocus();
AutomationElement tools = msn.FindFirst(TreeScope.Descendants, new PropertyCondition(AutomationElement.AccessKeyProperty, "Alt+T"));
ExpandCollapsePattern toolsPat = (ExpandCollapsePattern)tools.GetCurrentPattern(ExpandCollapsePattern.Pattern);
toolsPat.Expand();
AutomationElement options = tools.FindFirst(TreeScope.Descendants, new PropertyCondition(AutomationElement.NameProperty, "Options..."));
InvokePattern optionsPat = (InvokePattern)options.GetCurrentPattern(InvokePattern.Pattern);
optionsPat.Invoke();
AutomationElement optionsWindow = AutomationElement.RootElement.FindFirst(TreeScope.Descendants, new PropertyCondition(AutomationElement.NameProperty, "Options"));
AutomationElement personalMessage = optionsWindow.FindFirst(TreeScope.Descendants,
new AndCondition(
new PropertyCondition(AutomationElement.ClassNameProperty, "RichEdit20W"),
new PropertyCondition(AutomationElement.NameProperty, "Type a personal message for your contacts to see:")
)
);
ValuePattern personalMessagePat = (ValuePattern)personalMessage.GetCurrentPattern(ValuePattern.Pattern);
personalMessagePat.SetValue(fortune);
AutomationElement ok = optionsWindow.FindFirst(TreeScope.Descendants, new PropertyCondition(AutomationElement.NameProperty, "OK"));
InvokePattern okPat = (InvokePattern)ok.GetCurrentPattern(InvokePattern.Pattern);
okPat.Invoke();
}
private static String GetFortune()
{
System.Diagnostics.Process process = new System.Diagnostics.Process();
process.StartInfo.FileName = "c:\\cygwin\\bin\\fortune.exe";
process.StartInfo.RedirectStandardOutput = true;
process.StartInfo.UseShellExecute = false;
process.Start();
String fortune = process.StandardOutput.ReadToEnd();
fortune = System.Text.RegularExpressions.Regex.Replace(fortune, "\\s+", " ");
return fortune;
}
}
}
