Hotkey for Away

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Making a hotkey to put your status on the default away setting would be great
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Post by Big-O Mark »

It's a good idea, especially when you need to get that message up before a certain someone sends you a message :).
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GREAT idea. I hate running to get teh door and fumbling on the away feature.. Make it F8 or something
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Brilliant

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Add a hot key to turn on default away message! this would be a great add on!!!!!!! :D
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Post by sn0n »

i use a program called AutoIT to do all the 'hot keys' / 'macros' ill ever need.. seperate prog.. but it works fro me..

do a search on google.com for it..
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ya

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but it will be alot easier if it was added in with aim+
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Post by sn0n »

of course.. but god can only do so much b4 he makes it shareware.. i mean ryan.. :-)
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Post by Big-O Ryan »

hmm.... shareware, you say? ;)
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Post by Big-O Mark »

HotKey for away presents the same problem the HotKey to pop up the buddy list window is currently posing - how can it work with multiple instances of AIM? Any HotKey, in either situation, would affect all instances of AIM currently running ...

How would you want / expect a buddy list or away HotKey to work when you have multiple instances of AIM open?
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Post by iSteve530 »

well, since we now can turn cloning off, perhaps these hotkeys users request will only work if the user turns cloning off. Just an idea, I really do not need the hotkey's built into AIM+.
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Post by Big-O Mark »

The turning cloning off option only half turns cloning off :).

If you have the option enabled to "disable cloning," running AIM+ again will popup the buddy list, as in past versions of AIM+ or when running AIM without AIM+. However, you can still create clones by clicking the create clone option on the + button on the buddy list or in the AIM+ dropdown in any chat window. We figured with this option, people could create clones when they like, but wouldn't have to worry so much about the undesired clones they kept accidentally starting.

So to make a long story short, I don't think enabling HotKeys when cloning is disabled would work in the current system.
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oops

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oops, I was not aware that even with that check box checked that clones were still a possibility. So, I guess my idea can be voided. :D
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Post by hmph »

I would make the away hot key for every instance of aim+, you need to get away fast with a hot key, but you probably don't need to get back as fast...
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Post by darkblade »

hot key for away message = great idea!
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Post by timrosenfeld »

a possible solution, I think is that you could have one hot key that will only set the default away message for the currently active AIM window and another hot key that will set all instances of AIM to away
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