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Display Picture / Custom Emoticon Finder

Published on 5 years, 4 months ago in Windows Live Messenger. Closed Tags: , , .

This small example searches the Internet Explorer cache directory for display pictures and custom emoticons from your contacts, where they are stored as BIN files in PNG format.

I don’t think I could get the Dir$() function to search IE cache so I used the find files API. Not sure if it works on 9x. It uses GDI+ to display the images.

Download prjFinder.zip

Also posted on the forum.

Display Picture API

Published on 5 years, 7 months ago in Windows Live Messenger. 2 Comments Tags: , , .

MSN Messenger 6.1 introduces some new features to the Messenger API type library for display pictures, one being to be able to set and get your display picture, and an event is fired when your display picture changes.

To set your display picture, use the IMessenger property MyProperty, with the ePropType as MCONTACTPROP_USERTILE_PATH (const value is 2), giving it the full path to the new image, it does not have to be PNG as it is automatically converted.

m_evtMessenger.MyProperty(MCONTACTPROP_USERTILE_PATH) = txtNew.Text

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