Hi There,

 

I am wondering how the Instant messanger keeps track of which offline message was read by the user...

I noticed that if you log in and have an offline message, the system will popopen that message... Once read the message will not appear as offline message again, even though marked in the database as offline message...

 

I am writing some cutom code prompting my users that they have offline messages ie (3) Offline messages. but can not figure out how to mark the messages as read once the user logged in and reviewed there messages.

 

any help would be great....

Hi,

 

CuteChat just use a date filed to store the last time the user check the offline message.

 

When the user checked the offline message , all message before that time would be read.

 

We are currently working on feature that mention the users there's offline message even they do not open messenger.

 

Regards,
Terry

Hi Terry,

 

Thank you for your swift reply...

How is cutechat doing that? do you compare the date of last login with the MsgTime in the InstantMessage table?

Or is there another date field that I am overlooking? in which table should I be looking for that date field.

 

Thank you,

Oliver

Hi Terry,

 

I know you guys are busy but could you please answer my last question briefly, since it is holding up the implementation.

We are paying customers and just recently bought the domain license for IM

 

Thank you,

Oliver

Is this the field that keeps track of it?

InstantActivateTime:633815083716871840

How do I decifer this record?

 

InstantActivateTime:633815091349297127

Hi,

 

Yes. it's stored in the ServerProperties field.

 

You can deserialize it using this method:

 

NameValueCollection ChatUtility.GetProperties(string)

 

Regards,

Terry

Hi Terry,

 

sorry for my lack of knowledge but how do I get a Date out of this string  "InstantActivateTime:633815108295813936" ?

 

 

 

Hi

Dim nvc as NameValueCollection = ChatUtility.GetProperties("InstantActivateTime:633815108295813936")

 

Dim timestr=nvc("InstantActivateTime")

 

if timestr is nothing then

   'no such key/value

else

   Dim time=new DateTime(Convert.ToInt64(nvc("InstantActivateTime")))

end

 

Regards,

Terry

 

Hi Terry,

 

That got the job done... your help is very much appreciated...

 

Oliver