Buddy List Right-Click Menu

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bigcfk
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Buddy List Right-Click Menu

Post by bigcfk »

The Buddy List Right-Click Menu is huge. It's ridiculous.
Can middle_man get rid of some of those options?

Get Buddy Info
Send Instant Message
Send Chat Invitation

Send Mail
Send Greeting
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Rename
View xxx's Logs

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Alert
Change Alert
No Alert

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Direct IM
Open Video
Connect to Talk
Connect with AIM Phone
Add-Ins
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Send File
Get File
Send Buddy List
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Copy Buddy name
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Preferences
Store/Edit Buddy Comment
Store/Edit Email Address
Store/Edit Buddy Numbers
Block Buddy

The ones in bold are the only ones that are important.

Everything else is unnecessary (Add-Ins, Greetings) or can be reached through other menus (Send File, Direct IM).

You can't do this through resHacking, so maybe this could be considered.

Maybe have a check-list, where you can check off what you want/don't want.


EDIT:
Maybe for all menus? :D
Last edited by bigcfk on Wed Feb 07, 2007 3:05 pm, edited 1 time in total.
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Post by Wotcher »

Actually, reshack can do this. Isn't too difficult, either. You just find the right menu and delete all the items you want. You can reorganize the items and even put in spacers.

Ha-ha! You are out of luck, for I do not know where it is in the DLL. It's in AIMRES for sure, though.
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Post by Jason »

No, it cannot. The Buddy List context menu is dynamically generated.

EDIT: You could probably hex edit buddyui.ocm to prevent the menu items from being inserted, though.
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Post by bigcfk »

that would be ridiculous to do lol
I cant work hexedit nearly as good as I do resHack.


The text is in aimRes.dll, but if you delete them, the thing is still there, its just blank.
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Post by Wotcher »

My bad; I know it can be done, however, as I did it once. So it's either aimres or buddyui.
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Post by Portfolioso »

Yeah I'd like to see middleman get on this. The menus are insane. I'm all about simplicity and usability.
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Post by Wotcher »

heyhey, While Middleman is at it, can middleman get the ability to modify the My AIM, People, etc. menus? Even though these are reshackable?
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Post by bigcfk »

^true

editing menus through middle_man would be sweet.
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