i made support of TabSRMM ButtonBAr API, so you can add your own buttons to Tab Toolbar to call actions.
It requires TabSRMM 2.2.1.6 + (for now you can get it with MIM nightlies).
Get new UseActions, as always, HERE .
Today I would like to introduce to you the new way to achieve fast access to everyday actions you do in MIM (e.g. copy ID of contacts, insert some predefined text or clipboard content into message input area, read/write any key value in DB, call some services, etc.).
My idea was to have possibility to create “actions”, consisting of one or more subactions. Subactions should run in sequence and be able to exchange parameters between each other.
Once I told this idea to Awkward, creator of famous WaTrack and couple of other useful plugins for MIM. He was impressed of that, and, after some brainstorming, said, that his HotKeys plugin is already able to do similar things. So after some discussions ActMan (Actions Manager) was created. Actually it is a further development of his HotKeys plugin, but slightly reorganized in options, and much more powerful – now it can read/write to/from DB, call MIM services with virtually all types of input parameters, check conditions (IF operator), do simple loops, start applications with calculated parameters, call other actions, open message window for predefined contact, etc.
But Awkward removed configuration of hotkeys from ActMan – we decided that his new plugin will just create actions (it means that it cannot call actions created, so it is a service plugin).
For testing of ActMan I created simple tester plugin, UseActions. Then I extended it, and then extended again. And again… So now UseActions is plugin that make use the power of ActMan. It get list of all actions from ActMan, and makes possibility to call these actions – with menus, toolbar buttons, hotkeys, etc.
Current version of UseActions can call actions via creating of:
ToolBar buttons and Menuitems get icons, that you can change in icolib (one icon per action). Additional icons for root popups are also configurable in icolib.
Actual version of ActMan you always can get here http://awkward.mirandaim.ru/
Latest version of UseActions plugin I normally upload here http://vasilich.org/mim/UseActions.rar
It should work for MIM 0.7+.
UseActions plugin can also be compiled in ANSI version, but since ActMan is Unicode only, I didn’t even try to build ANSI configuration of my plugin.
Please, test it and leave your comments.