Add contact / MSN Messenger

[jofa]

Does anyone know how I can open the "Add new contact" dialog (in MSN Messenger) from a script in an html page?
This isn't a javascript question of course, and I guess I will have to use some unsafe JScript/VBScript => will only work in IE (which is all I need)
(And, yes, all clients are supposed to have MSN Messenger installed)

[beetle]

Closest thing I could find crawling MSDN

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...DisplayLang=en

[mydster]

Do you mean like that AOL/AIM add new contact box?

You could add this code:

<a href="java script:MsgrApp.LaunchAddContactUI(<A href="mailto:'email@email'">'email@email');">Text</a>


If an href shows up for that email, delete '<A href="mailto:'email@email'">'

[jofa]

All I get is this...
"Object doesn't support this property or method"

[beetle]

Hmm, found this searching google (link has a couple popups)

[mydster]

Odd... that worked for me, though I am using Windows messenger atm.

[jofa]

Problem solved:

	var objMsgr = document.getElementById("objMsgr");
	var status = objMsgr.MyStatus;
	if(!status)
	{
		alert("Some error accessing MSN Messenger (is it installed?)");
		return;
	}
	else if(status < 2)
	{
		alert("You are not logged in");
		return;
	}
	else
	{
		objMsgr.AddContact(0, name);
	}

...and objMsgr is an object tag with classid="clsid:B69003B3-C55E-4B48-836C-BC5946FC3B28"

Works in IE6/Win2k + MSN Msgr 5.0 (and that's enough for me)