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10.5: Automatically set iChat status when in A/V chats
Authored by: mm2270 on May 15, '08 02:44:18PM

Interesting scripts, but I wonder if these could be modified to work with text chats to change the status message to a custom one stored in iChat, such as "Assisting another user"

I ask because we use iChat over Bonjour at my job where I do support for the end users, and I often end up chatting with more than one user simultaneously. It would just be nice to alert potential chat users that I'm in the middle of another conversation when they try to send me a text invite.



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10.5: Automatically set iChat status when in A/V chats
Authored by: hintuser on May 15, '08 07:04:47PM

Here is a modified script for the text chat :

using terms from application "iChat"

on received text invitation theText from theBuddy for theChat
set status to away
set status message to "Currently text chatting . . ."
end received text invitation

end using terms from



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