Bump top and MSN

like this i want msn to blend into the application not be over it

Think the question is: "How can I make my MSN/Live buddies be an object on my Bump?"

First off. You are going to have to write an app that can check your MSN / Facebook / MySpace friends status. And when they are online, Take their profile pic and drop it to a pile on the desktop.

If I were to do this I would make it a widget like so:

go to C:\Users\YOUR NAME\AppData\Roaming\Bump Technologies, Inc\BumpTop\Widgets\
and create a new Directory "Buddies.widget"

then in that directory create a \data dir.

Then create a text document named widget.json

Here is the logic for the widget.json file:

{
"header":
{
"version": "0.1",
"name": "Bump 2 Buddies",
"author": "Indakind Designs, Inc.",
"description": "Gives Bumptop a pile of friends to work with",
"url": "http://www.indakind.com/",
"schema": "widget/0.1"
},
"widget":
{
"relativeWorkingDirectory": "data/Buddies/",
"startupApplication":
{
"path": "Buddies.exe",
"args": ""
},
"icons":
[
{
"filename": "B2Buddies.png",
"label": "Bump 2 Buddiess",
"launchApplication":
{
"path": "Buddies.exe",
"args": "-edit"
},
"scale": 2
},
{
"filename": "John Doe.png",
"label": "John Doe",
"launchApplication":
{
"path": "Buddies.exe",
"args": "-id:John Doe"
},
"scale": 4.5
},
{
"filename": "Jane Doe.png",
"label": "Jane Doe",
"launchApplication":
{
"path": "Buddies.exe",
"args": "-id:Jane Doe"
},
"scale": 4.5
}
]
}
}

Now to explain a bit on how to write the buddies.exe

Using your fav language of choice you will have to check for status and when online save the profile pic to the .png in the \data\msn folder. This will make it so that we can make it a pile in Bumptop. Next we take the name of the profile and send that to the Label variable. Then we also use that for the args variable. This way when we double click on Johns face we can have a message window or something happen when we load up our app with the "-id:John Doe" tag after it.
The Scale setting is pretty standard. 2 is about normal size.

{
"filename": "John Doe.png",
"label": "John Doe",
"launchApplication":
{
"path": "Buddies.exe",
"args": "-id:John Doe"
},
"scale": 4.5

No, I don't have this widget. So don't ask.
Hope this helps somebody though.