Does anyone know how i can use the API to send a reminder MESSAGE to Skype ? These reminders are shown under the "History" tab op Skype. I am NOT talking about an SMS message but a REMINDER in the history list.

I know this must be possible : Ebay also uses it. By activating this service you are warned (in Skype !) if you are not longer the highest bidder on an object.

I would like to use this in my program to remind users if their stocks have reached a certain level.

Can somebody help me out ? Or tell me what i have to search on (how is this feature called) ?

A sample of the Ebay-messages is in the attachement

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> Does anyone know how i can use the API to send a reminder MESSAGE to Skype ?
> Ebay also uses it.

The interface Ebay uses to do this is sadly not part of public API and thus not publicly available.

To send similar alerts to your users you would have a skype plugin running on user's machine. In such case you could send application2application messages to those plugins, which in turn could open your own alert windows as well as create custom events in skype history tab.

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Is this possible ? If so do you have any documentation on this ?

Another possibility would be to send a CHAT message to a user. So if he is logged on he will receive a chat message. If he is not connected he will receive this message later.

> Is this possible ? If so do you have any documentation on this ?

Yes it is. The basic API syntax to create custom events can be found at:
https://developer.skype.com/Docs/ApiDoc/Skype_Alert_Events

Note however that:
1. This would require a custom application to run in your user's local machine.
2. This part of API is (not yet) implemented in current Skype 4.0 beta.

> Another possibility would be to send a CHAT message to a user.

This solution would be more universal as it would not require any custom stuff running on your user's machines.

API relevant to messing with chats can be found at:
https://developer.skype.com/Docs/ApiDoc/Cre...ending_messages

hi thank you, this event indeed works.

But is it possible to let the message popup to the screen ?
Now only a small flagg icon is shown and if the PC is restarted these
warnings are deleted.

These alert events should be handled by Skype from then on. Now i
think my client should monitor the event and if it is clicked i
should delete it myself.

> But is it possible to let the message popup to the screen ?

Via Skype API? No. But if you go this way, you will need to have a custom application running on your user's local machine anyway. In such case you can catch either incoming chat messages from Skype or app2app datagrams via our public API, and then produce popup messages any way you like - you are no longer limited by what you can do with Skype API then.

If you do not want to have your users downloading and running a special Skype plugin that catches notifications, then the only way to send them alerts is via chat messages.