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Messenger Plus! 2.50

Dispo demain 28 octobre à 5 heure GMT ! (je serais debout!)

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[Pegase25]

Ca y est, elle est dispo.
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Et il y a beaucoup de nouveautés :
2.50.65 Version - 28/10/2003

* Several notifications can now be set for each contact, from the Contact Manager window and the new popup menu. These notifications display a toast window, similar to the one Messenger is using for its own notifications.
o You can be notified when a contact goes offline.
o You can be notified when a contact changes his/her status.
o You can be notified when a contact changes his/her name.
o The notifications can be set either for the next occurrence or for every subsequent occurrence.
o A new panel has been added in the Preferences to allow proper configuration of this feature .

* The Preferences panel has a new Notifications section to configure the toast windows displayed by Messenger Plus!.
o A sound can be associated to the popups if desired.
o In the Contact Defaults sub-section, you can select some events you want to be permanently notified for every contacts (to be notified every time anyone goes offline for example).

* A "Messenger Plus!" entry has been added at the end of the popup menu displayed when you right click on a name in the contact list. This menu allows easy access to many features. Thanks to this menu you can:
o Open the chat log of a contact (also automatically flushes the current chat).
o Change the custom name of a contact.
o Quickly set special notifications for the contact.
o Mass contact block and unblock for groups
o Display various contact information (see below)

* Added a Contact Information window
o This window is accessible from the contact popup menu and with the /info command.
o The window displays several info, including the contact name&email (that you can copy), and the last time you saw him online or you opened a chat with him.
o You can store contact specific information in this window. Up to 50,000 characters of text can be stored. That should be enough for all your needs .
o The window displays the last 20 events related to the contact (status change, name change, block, etc...).
o This window also tells you if the contact has Messenger Plus 2.50 or above installed on his computer. To know about this, you have to press the "Check for Plus!" button. This will send a Ping command and wait for a response.

* Added a /ping command. When you use it with any contact who has Messenger 2.50 or above, it will trigger an automatic response and it will display the number of seconds of "network lagging" between you and your contact. This can prove to be very useful when you're unsure about the current stability of your network. Note that Messenger Plus! also internally records any answer as a proof that your contact has Messenger Plus! installed (see below). If you don't like the idea of your computer automatically answering ping requests, this can be disabled in the Preferences panel (Commands section).

* POP3 E-mail feature improved
o A notification popup is displayed when new e-mail is received (yeah, finally . If more than one POP3 e-mail account, the text in the notification window displayed the e-mail count for each account.
o A program or a web link can be specified to be executed when the notification popup, or the email link at the top of the contact list, is clicked. By default, Messenger Plus! launched the e-mail client associated with MSN Messenger.
o Along with the popup notification, the sound registered for new e-mails in MSN Messenger is played. This can be disabled from the Notifications preferences panel.

* Fixed a bug in the "block group" feature. The feature has also been improved to bypass a limitation of the Messenger server... mass blocking tends to flood the server and sometimes, some blocking operations are just ignored. Messenger Plus! now blocks/unblocks each contact one at a time with a small delay between each one; it takes longer but it's more effective.

* The Personalised Status tag is now removed from the name displayed in several windows for better clarity.

* The Personalised Status tags are better managed in the contact list for Offline and Mobile status.

* Sound files of type WAV are now played entirely, from beginning to end, without a time limit, when associated to a contact event (sign-in/sign-out). Other file types (such as MP3) still have a 12 seconds default limit (can be modified with a registry setting).

* The Auto-Away feature doesn't change your status if you're using Appear Offline.

* Status or name changes are not logged in the chat logs anymore if the chat is considered to be inactive (some minutes without any talking).

* Non-admin accounts can now disable the Messenger Plus! Recovery window if necessary.

* Added a command to quickly open the log of the contact you're talking to: /viewlog.

* Added a full featured scheduler (Plus! menu of the contact list)
o An unlimited amount of schedules can be stored.
o A schedule can either display a message, or change your status, at a specific date and time.
o When a message is displayed, you can associate a program or an internet link that will be executed if you click on the notification popup.
o Each schedule can be executed either once or at regular intervals (daily, weekly, monthly or yearly).
o The scheduler window can be opened with the /scheduler command.
o Use the Scheduler for all sorts of different things! let it remind you of important dates or change your status every day when you go to sleep. Just explore the possibilities! .

* A bug has been fixed that could prevent Instant Lock and Boss Protect to work properly in MSN Messenger 6.1.

* Added an Import/Export wizard in the preferences panel.
o To import or export your preferences, click on the Backup button in the Preferences window.
o The procedure is designed to be extremely easy for everyone thanks to the use of a wizard style window.
o You can chose to import/export either your general preferences, your schedules, or every contact related information. Of course, all this data can be saved in one and only file.
o The backup file (extension .pld) can be used to import the same preferences into different accounts. You can also use the file on a different computer to transfer your preferences to all your stations.

* Added a "More..." entry in the "Send Command" menu. This redirects to a page on msgplus.net with a list of every command available.

* Fixed an important bug concerning the combination of the Custom Name feature and names with mulit-format tags embedded.

* When you double click on an event in the Event Viewer, you can click on the new "Contact Information" button to display all the recent events associated with this contact only

* New feature: if you move the contact list window on the left or right edge of your screen, the window will be docked automatically (height maximised and attached to the edge). This is enabled by default and can be disabled from the Contact List preferences panel.
o While docked, you can resize the window to change its width but not its height
o While docked, you are not permitted to maximize the window
o To exit docking mode just move the window as if you wanted to detach it from the edge of the screen (try to move it toward the center of the screen).

* Fixed a small bug with MSN Messenger 6. The size and position of the window is now saved correctly every time you exit the application (the undocked size is saved when you exit while docked).

* A "More Statuses" entry has been added to the status menu displayed when you click on your name at the top of the contact list. This menu contains all your predefined Personalised Status and a direct link to the Personalised Status window.

* Better support of names with carriage returns (line breaks).
o Carriage returns in contact names in log headers are removed.
o If the "truncate name" feature is enabled for your logs, carriage returns in names are removed.

* When IRC Commands are enabled, anything that start with a slash '/' is considered a command. If the command is not recognized, it is ignored and unsent. This will prevent unwanted messages to be sent to your contacts because you misspelled a command. By default, an error message will be displayed, this can be disabled with the "CommandErrorMessage" registry setting.

* Added the /pic command. Use it to quickly change your display picture. It takes the name of the new display picture as parameter (not a file name, the name you assigned to a previously added picture).
o Use "0" as parameter to remove the existing display picture.
o If an exact match cannot be found, Messenger Plus! tried to match the parameter with a fraction of the name. For example, "tree" can be used to select "Palm Trees".
o You can create multiple actions Quick Texts to change both your status and picture when needed.

* The Contact Manager has been improved in many ways.
o The window is not modal anymore. This means that you can access your contact list while in the Contact Manager.
o The window can be resize! I've received this request many time, it is now done. Of course, a Maximize button has been added to the title bar.
o A Block/Unblock button has been added. It works with single and multiple selections.
o Double-clicking on a contact display the corresponding Contact Info window.
o A "blocked" icon is displayed for contacts who are blocked.

* The Boss Protect and Instant Lock features now hide a lot more "secondary" windows than before.

* This feature is heavily requested since the existence of MSN Messenger: change the color of your text to more than the 16 predefined default colors. Messenger Plus! now offers you this option but in a different way you're already used to.
o Messenger Plus! offers you the ultimate convenience of changing your color to any color you want directly from the Font changer displayed by Messenger (from the Options or when you right click on your text box). Instead of a "Color" combo box you now get an "Enhanced Color" button that lets you chose any color possible.
o The color window remembers the custom colors you select.
o A noticeable difference with other tools that already do the same thing is that this change is automatically applied in Messenger, no need to restart, no even close your chat window! .

* The "NameOnSignin" registry setting has been added. Use it if you want to change your name automatically to a default one when you sign-in. This can be useful, for example, if you use the same account in different places and want to identify your location.
o I hope some of the Plus Tweakers out there will be updated to include this setting. If you are many to find this feature useful, I'll add it to the preferences panel of the next version.

* A utility function has been added to be used by the plugins (the plugin engine version is now 3). Plugins can now use DisplayToast() to display a toast notification popup with the title, message, program and sound they want. If you're a plugin developer, there's a good chance this news will please you a lot .

* The scrolling bug for the (!WAT) Winamp tag has been fixed thanks to Matty.

* Several windows have been redesigned to refresh the look of the software. The one window that has been changed the most is the About Box. In addition of being gorgeous (thanks to GFD usual talent), it displays several links to different help and resources pages. Also, a manual "Check For Update" feature has been added there.
o Added a "HaveComplexTheme" registry value. Use it to deactivate some of the new graphics if you're using a complex Windows XP theme that doesn't fit with the Messenger Plus! new style.

* One Sound Command has been added. How could I continue to distribute Messenger Plus! without a classic sound from Star Trek? . If you're trekkie enough, you'll also discover a new easter egg related to this sound .

* A lot of people were requesting a new easter egg, well, this version has two new eggs. The first one is related to the new sound command. The second one is a command that can actually be useful and funny to use if both you and your contact have Messenger Plus! 2.50. The only hint I'll you is if, like me, you spent hours playing at the Monkey Island serie from Lucas Arts some years ago, this new egg will definitively make you smile! .

* The /all command has been fixed to work better with commands.

* The Ctrl+Tab bug has been fixed. This was due to the fact that I was using this escape sequence for the plugin feature. I fixed the bug buy changing the escape code (from 0x09 to 0x12). Plugins MUST be recompiled with the latest plugin header files to be compatible with this new version of Messenger Plus! (the modification date of the latest C and VB files is in October 2003). The version number passed as parameter in Initialize() should be used to ensure backward compatibility.

* A "Messenger Plus!" menu has been added to the action menu displayed when you click on the round arrow button at the top right corner of your chat window (near the block button). This menu gives you fast access so several features and is mostly useful when you use the "no border" option of MSN Messenger 6.1.

* The read-me file distributed with the software has been rewritten... it was about time .

* Some languages have been added, some have been removed (because not updated). I'll post the non-updated languages on the forum. When they'll have been updated, they'll be added back in the public distribution.

* A lot of other small improvements and bug fixes (really, a lot, and in every aspect of the program). This version also manages memory more efficiently and will take less resources on your system than any other release done in the past year. I'm tired of typing things in this file so I'll just say that this version is a must for anyone using Messenger Plus! or anyone who wants to give it a first or second chance .

[ditche]

2.50.66

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[PIER]

scara un problème de réveil ?

[gowap]

Version 2.51.68 du 1er novembre.

Liste des modifications : http://msgplus.net/index.php?view=version
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[Scaramanga]

Un gadget amusant avec MPlus!: enregistrer ( en audio) les nom de vos contacts , et utiliser ces "son " comme notification de connection.
Clic de droite sur le contact/Messenger Plus! Extra/Son...
Encore plus fun : demander à vos contacts de vous envoyer leur nom avec leur propre voix...Complétement inutile...mais bon, un peu de fantaisie dans ce monde inhumain...

[Carmen Cru]

ATTENTION de ne pas mettre les sponsors !!! J'ai fait ça par erreur l'autre jour (install un peu trop rapide avec les yeux à moitié fermés ) et alors là ...spyware adware etc..

[Scaramanga]

Version 2.52.72 dispo
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[ditche]

3.00.92

www.msgplus.net/download.php (3,34 Mo)



Changelog:

Most of the windows in Messenger Plus! have been redesigned and their look has been improved.

The most important part of the software, the preferences panel, has been entirely recreated.

The new preferences panel is way more attractive visually, and its graphics are using alpha-bending effects so that the graphics look good in any Windows theme.

Only main sections are now displayed in the list on the left, sub-sections are available using a new menu at the top of each section. Every section has been reworked, options have been removed, options have been added, options have been moved from one section to another, etc... it's just way better that way, clearer, more professional.

All the preferences of Messenger Plus! can now be locked with an administrator password (Privacy Protection section). You can use this feature to do some parental control.

A link has been added in the Miscellaneous section to go on the Registry Setting page of msgplus.net.

A whole page could be written about the new preferences alone. For some more details, see below, and more importantly, explore by yourself!

Come-back Messages now have an expire option. You can set the date and time you want the message to expire. If your contact signs-in after the specified date, the message is not sent and silently deleted. In addition, a new /backmsg command can be used in a chat after a contact signed out.

New feature added: word filtering.

This feature can be used two ways. You can filter text you send, and you can filter text you receive.

Filtering text you send can be used for creating all sorts of aliases and replace abbreviations by their full meaning.

Filtering text you receive can be used to filter swearing or other kind of words you don't like to see.

You can add a star at the beginning or at the end of a filter. For example, "uni*" will filter "uni", "university", ...

Word filters can be created in the Instant Message section of the preferences panel.

A separate option has been added in the Import/Export wizard for word filters. This allows you to share your filters with other people.

An option is available if you desire to apply the filters in the names of your contacts (will not filter the names in the contact list, only in chats. Also, filters are not applied to custom names).

You can use the new "WordFilterCaseSensitive" registry setting if you want your filters to be case sensitive.

The Quick Icons panel has been improved a lot.

If you keep the Ctrl key pressed when you select an emoticon, the panel stays opened and the border is displayed with dots. This allows you to quickly select several emoticons at the same time.

Messenger Plus! now automatically finds the correct tag associated for each custom emoticon. You can still specify several tags to display more than one icon at the same time.

Up to 5 panels can now be displayed. Each panel is configured separately with its own options and custom emoticons.

The second panel is configured by default to automatically display all your custom emoticons without you having to enter them manually in the config panel.

If more than one panel is configured, numbered buttons are displayed in the lower left corner of the Quick Icons panel. Click on each button to go from one panel to the other.

F1 to F5 keys can be used to quickly switch panels.

Fixed bug where the "Customized" link would be displayed on top of some emoticons.

The emoticon panel now only works with MSN Messenger 6 and above.

The Custom Emoticons configuration window had been done too hastily in the previous version. It has been redesigned.

The interface has been recreated to be more visually appealing.

More emoticons are displayed at the same time in the selection screen to make things easier when you are searching for an emoticon.

A new control has been added to allow the configuration of each of the 5 panels. All the other options of the configuration window are linked to the panel number currently selected (this includes the option to display the original emoticons of Messenger in each panel).

The personalised status window has been completely redesigned to offer clearer options. The window is now also displayed even when the auto-message edit box cannot be created.

Once again, you've been requesting this feature for years (literally), it was time for me to add it: you can now select what contacts will receive your Personalised Status message.

In the Personalised Status window, a new line has been added under the time box. It specifies if the message will be seen by all your contacts or only a few of them.

Clicking on the Change button in the Personalised Status window brings a new configuration panel allowing you to easily specify what contacts you want on your "allow list".

The "allowed list" is cleared every time you go out of Personalised Status mode. The reason is quite simple: this feature is designed to help you target specific contacts, for specific reasons, at a given moment. If you want some people to never receive any of your messages, you probably should block them or remove them from your list .

Auto-messages (example: the answering machine of Personalised Statuses) now accept commands.

If you experience regular problems with your internet connection, you will certainly like this new improvement: if Messenger signs-out by itself and signs back in within a minute, your Personalised Status is entirely restored and your status tag is not removed from your name.

New user interface feature: enhanced Plus! menus (MSN Messenger 6 and above only).

Two of these menus are available. One in the contact list, one in chat windows. Both of them can be disabled in the preferences.

In the contact list, the menu icon is displayed when the mouse cursor is left over a contact name.

In chat windows, the menu icon is displayed in the toolbar, when no other icon are present at its location.

These menus are designed to bring some of the Plus! features, nicely, to any user. Text in those menu is very descriptive, many of you will probably notice older features they never saw (or use) before .

You can change the show delay of the icon in the contact list with the "IconShowDelay" registry setting (note: there will always be a bigger delay for the first time the icon is displayed).

The Contact Manager has been renamed Contact List Clean-up and its design has been improved.

Times are way more accurate, no more "unknown" time for half of your list .

Double-clicking on a contact displays the contact information window.

New feature: Quote Sender

The Quote Sender is available in instant message windows. It allows you to quote something one of your contacts said in the past 6 hours.

The Quote sender lets you find a quote quickly by selecting the contact name and a time filter. A search function is also available.

Pressing "Send Quote" automatically sends the message in your current chat, with default formatting including color and timestamp.

This feature can be customized with the "QuoteFormat" registry value.

The /quote command can be used to display the Quote Sender window.

A new feature has been added to help people use commands during a chat: Command Helper windows:

When you start a message with "/", a small panel appears allowing you to select almost any command available in Messenger Plus!. This works in chat windows as well as in other Messenger Plus! windows requiring text to be entered (like the Quick Text preferences panel).

The command list includes Messenger Plus! native commands, quick text aliases and even commands supported by installed plugins. Each of the three groups is identified by a special icon.

When browsing the command list, a tooltip is automatically displayed giving more information about the command.

Pressing Ctrl+X, where X is any letter, allows quick search of the desired command.

After a command has been entered (from the command list or manually using the keyboard), additional help is provided, if the command requires a parameter, when the space key is pressed. If the parameter is a contact email, a list of your contacts is displayed in a new window to let you chose one of your contacts easily. If the parameter is anything else, a tooltip is displayed giving information about the expected parameter.

As for the Quick Icon panel, this new feature is designed to be non-intrusive. If you don't care about it, you can continue to type and it will disappear automatically. If you find it annoying, it can be disabled in the Commands preferences panel.

The uninstaller has been redesigned.

The interface looks better and is more user friendly.

There is now an option to uninstall every installed plugin. This is to help people fix problems related to defective plugins. VB plugins are not deleted but the entries in the registry are removed, which produces the same result.

Added an improvement to help Messenger Plus! do its job when other applications which are using similar hooking techniques are installed on the computer.

Quick Texts have been improved.

The Quick Icons preferences panel has been redesigned to be more clear and gives more information.

Creating an alias for a Quick Text automatically creates a special tag to use in a chat or any other area of Messenger Plus! (like personalised status messages). Quick Text tags replace native Messenger Plus! tags if the same name is used.

New global option to disable Alt+X shortcuts. People who use ASCII character codes will appreciate .

Fixed the crash that could occur when very long quick texts were used.

Due to the increasing use of the Quick Text feature, the maximum has been increased to 50, that's 20 more than in the previous version.

Quick Icon panel works correctly in the Quick Icon preferences panel in Windows 95/98/Me (this fix also applies for other preferences window using edit boxes).

Small improvements in the Messenger Plus! notification windows.

The toast looks better when displayed in Windows 2000 or Windows XP.

Added "PlusToastFlash" registry setting. It allows you to deactivate the systray icon flashing.

Added "PlusToastAnimate" registry setting. Use it to disable the animation when the toast is displayed or hidden.

Added an "auto-fix" watch dog in Messenger Plus!. In some rare occasions, the chat can get messed-up. Many improvements have been done to avoid this problem as much as possible and the current version is almost perfect in that matter, however, some specific things can still trigger the bug and Messenger Plus! can't do anything about it (like using multi-format color tags and using numeric codes for custom emoticons at the same time, next to the Ctrl+K control character). When this problem occurs, it messes-up the whole chat and the only way to get rid was to close the window and reopen it, well, that was until now. Messenger Plus! now analyzes what's going on and, if it detects that the chat is being messed-up, it attempts to fix it. The fix is generally efficient after 2 new messages have been exchanged between you and your contact. Those of you who already experienced this kind of problems in the past will surely appreciate this "feature" .

New sound commands have been added!

The /snoexcuse sound has been replaced by something more known

The new sound commands are /sapplause, /swoow and /syawn (the last one is from my favourite anime character)

The POP3 e-mail feature has been improved

The count of emails displayed when using POP3 mail accounts includes the count of Hotmail emails (can be disabled with the "POPAddHotmail" registry setting).

The POP3 Mail section of the preferences now offers a "port" option and a fifth e-mail account to configure.

If you're using Windows XP or above, Messenger Plus! updates the welcome screen of Windows with the count of unread emails in your accounts. For this feature to work, you have to specify the email address associated with the account in the preferences. The "UpdateWindowsEmailCount" registry setting can be used to disable that feature.

Added "AlwaysNotifyPopEmail" registry value. If you set it to 1, notifications for POP3 email will always be displayed, even if the count of unread emails didn't change since last notification. If you use this setting, it is suggested that you increase the checking delay to at least 10 minutes to avoid being flooded with notifications.

You can now quickly format your messages by selecting some text and pressing one of the multi-format shortcuts (like Ctrl+B). Doing so will enclose the text between two tags.

The "change security warning" feature is totally obsolete and has been removed from the preferences. The feature is now off by default but you can still enable it in the registry (can be useful if you're still using an older version of Messenger).

The Task scheduler has been improved.

A text is displayed in grey at the bottom of the toasts to notify the user that he has to click if he doesn't want to be notified again.

The last notification displayed for a scheduled task stays displayed as long as the user doesn't close it explicitly.

The Boss Protect feature has been improved

The default icon has been changed. It is now a network icon from Shell32. Thanks to this change, the icon is assured to completely blend in your Windows.

DLL resource files are now accepted in the preferences. This mean that you can quickly change the icon used in Boss Protect just be randomly changing the number that you'll see next to "Shell32.dll". Of course, you can select any other DLL to get your resource from.

The First Time window has been redesigned.

If Messenger has not been signed-in at least once, instead of doing nothing, pressing the shortcut combination minimizes all the Messenger windows (that way, no bad surprise).

Messenger Plus! now requires Windows 98 or higher (it won't work on Windows 95 or Windows NT 4).

The Color panel (the window that is displayed when you press Ctrl+K) has been improved

The panel has been redesigned (not by GFD but by Fraisie herself . It replaces the ugly panel from the old version and tooltips are used to display color numbers.

The original 16 colors came from mIRC. 52 new colors have been added to the panel to make a total of 68 pre-defined colors. This is very useful to quickly pick a nice color during a chat. Of course, the custom color picker is still available (your contacts need Messenger Plus! 3 to see the new pre-defined colors).

Added "DockingKeepsWidth" registry setting. You can use it if you won't want the width of the contact list window to be modified when you dock it.

A special sound can now be associated per contact in the Notification Configuration panel.

A multi-format helper panel has been added

The panel can be displayed from the Plus! toolbar menu in instant message windows and by pressing Ctrl+R.

The panel lets you choose between bold, italic, underlined and struck-out format. The corresponding control character is automatically added in your message.

The panel informs you of the current formatting of the text based on every other control codes placed in your message. This is very useful when you use formatting characters a lot and want to be sure of the final result.

An option has been added to automatically accept any kind of requests asking your authorisation.

This feature will accept for you file transfers, webcam chats, games, and any other requests asking to click on "Accept".

The preferences panel allows you to select specific contacts by default, for security reasons.

The option can be individually turned on/off in each chat.

A Find Text feature has been added to the chat windows (only in MSN Messenger 6 and above). It's not a big feature but it's useful and it will stay there as long as Microsoft doesn't include one in Messenger .

The search window can be displayed from the Plus! menu or by pressing Ctrl+F.

You can restrict the search to match the case and to search for whole word only. By default, the search is down from bottom to top, of course, an option is there to search from top to bottom if you want.

If the text found is displayed behind the search window, the window is moved a little .

New (!PVER) special tag. Use it to display the list of plugins that are installed and enabled.

Custom names and other Plus! text-formatting features now work better when your contacts send you files or hand written messages.

The Event Log window has been improved.

Right click on a contact event allows you to start a chat with the contact.

You wanted it, you have it: you can now sort events by clicking on the column headers. Clicking several times on the Name column even allows you to sort by contact email.

Different small visual improvements.

Brand new setup!

The interface has been redesigned to be more informative (still as simple as before though). As the Automatic/Custom installation modes confused some people, they have been removed.

When Messenger Plus! is installed for the first time, the installer detects the language currently in use by Windows and select the appropriate language for Messenger Plus!, if possible.

In Windows XP, the setup is now capable of shutting down Messengers that run in other user sessions. This helps solving file-lock problems.

The setup is now entirely multi-lingual and is capable of displaying languages such as Chinese or Hebrew.

A "Loading Setup" banner is displayed while the setup is extracting the languages. A progress bar is also displayed while Messenger Plus! is being installed.

The DbgHelp.dll library is not distributed with Messenger Plus! anymore. This change removed 325KB from the setup package.

The setup is more "polygamy-patch friendly". If you're using several Messenger clients at the same time and you're upgrading your version of Messenger Plus!, each Messenger client is closed properly before the setup proceeds with the installation of the files (this means that, for example, all your logs will be saved before the update begins).

Bug fixed: in some rare occasions, some complex languages (like Chinese) were not displayed in the language list under Windows 95/98/Me even though they were supported by the operating system.

When using the silent switches (/SilentInstall and /SilentInstallNoSponsor), the confirmation web page is not displayed anymore.

A new switch has been added to msgplus.exe. If you want to remove Messenger Plus! from your system startup and want to run Messenger Plus! automatically before you start Messenger, just launch "msgplus.exe /AutoStart". Important: this procedure is not supported and is brought to you only for your convenience.

New feature for people who use shared-computers (school or work primarily) and don't have administrator access on the computer. Messenger Plus! can now be installed in almost any Windows account!

The setup automatically detects if you have administrator privileges. If you don't, a warning message is displayed and parameters are automatically adjusted, you don't need to do anything but press Next .

In non-admin mode, a Messenger Plus! shortcut is installed in your Start menu to let you launch Messenger with the Messenger Plus! features. Another icon is there to uninstall the program. Messenger Plus! won't start automatically when the computer starts.

You can force this installation mode with the /NotAdmin setup switch.

Non-admin mode is not guaranteed to work but will help most of you use your favourite Messenger add-on in most public/restricted computers you use .

New /assist command to trigger Request Remote Assistance (when available in the version of Messenger you're using).

A bunch of default Quick Texts are now created (only when Messenger Plus! is installed for the first time). This gives examples to first-time users and nice default commands such as the famous IRC /slap .

The plugins API has been improved.

A Configure function is now available. It is accessible from the Plugins menu and from the Preferences window.

The DisplayToast function now works well in Windows 98/Me with VB plugins.

The documentation of the plugins API has been completely rewritten.

Your plugin must define Initialize() to be accepted by Messenger Plus! now.

Several security protections have been added. You may need to update some of your old plugins for them to work properly in Messenger Plus! 3.

A new panel has been added in the preferences for plugins.

All your plugins are listed in this panel. Each one can be enabled/disabled individually and the settings can be different for each of your Messenger accounts.

Plugins installed but not enabled are identified differently.

Each plugin can display its own config panel with the new Configure button (not all plugins support this function).

If a plugin crashes at some point, Messenger Plus! automatically disables it.

Hand Writing mode is detected and Messenger Plus! reacts accordingly (by disabling some menus for example).

Some information has been added to the auto-update url for the current language, the version of Windows and the version of Messenger Plus!. This will allow smaller updates to be downloaded in the future. For those of you who monitor their network communications, if you wonder about the "ra=" parameter, it is simply a random number put there to force servers to go check on msgplus.net and not get the file from their cache.

An announcement system has been added. It will be used occasionally to notify you of important news (very occasionaly, I don't plan to use it for anything right now). Announcements will be displayed only once, in a toast window, and can be disabled by disabling auto-update.

The correct font is always used for non-MBCS languages in MBCS versions of Windows 98/Me. This means that English will be displayed properly in a Chinese Windows 98 for example.

Minimum Compatibility mode has been enhanced. You will appreciate that next time MSN Messenger is upgraded to a new version.

No more problems when chatting with someone who has an empty name.

No more mess when using a Messenger version with a language like Polish where the name of users in a chat are displayed between two other words.

All issues regarding emoticons in MSN Messenger 6.2 used with Messenger Plus! features are solved.

Better support of RTL versions of Messenger. For example, every floating panel is now displayed at the left side of the cursor while you chat.

Many many many other improvements and bug fixes are not listed in this document, I don't want to write a book. Beta tests have generated 5 more pages of updates but I won't include them here. Let's just say that Messenger Plus! 3 is way better and way cooler .


Non je traduirai pas le changelog !

[Numéro 6]

Je paye un coup à boire à celui qui se tapera la lecture de tout ce speech

Allons Ditchounet, fais la trad, donne le lien, ou tiens ça sous silence, mais ne mets pas ça tel quel

[ditche]

Je préfère encore que Koba me fouette.

[Sam58]

Je préfère encore que Koba me fouette.

Maintenant qu'il y a gouté, lors de leur réunion, il en redemande.

[ditche]

Nenni là il nous a mis à tous les pâtée au laser game.

[mike]

Nenni là il nous a mis à tous les pâtée au laser game.

e c'est vraix

[Maverick]

Salut,

Nenni là il nous a mis à tous les pâtée au laser game.

Wouai, c'est facile, je n'ai pas pu descendre dans l'arêne pour vous fraguer tous...

[ditche]

Messenger Plus! Extension 3.20.100

New feature added: floating contacts
The encryption password problem has finally been fixed
Messenger Plus! is now entirely compatible with Windows Messenger 4.7.3000 (released with Windows XP SP2)
The Event Viewer window now displays a tooltip with all the information pertinent to the selected event, including the date
The bug in the "Hide Advertisement Banner" feature introduced by MSN Messenger 6 has finally been solved, no more ads will show on top of your contact list
You can now chose to auto-accept only file transfers and not web cams or other kind of requests
The command list and contact list helpers have been greatly improved
The size of the Messenger Plus! notification windows shouldn't be altered by the display of MSN Alerts notifications anymore
The setup works fine when it is renamed msgplus.exe
The enhanced Plus! icon in the contact list window is displayed a little more faster so that more people can notice it
The "Rename Contact" popup window has been redesigned
Word filters of a length of 1 character are now accepted
Some MSN Messenger related Plus! options were changed when they were edited in Windows Messenger: not anymore
Commands in contact's names/emails can't be executed by the (!N) and (!M) tags anymore
The (!IP) tag now does what is should have have done: it returns the one, real, internet IP of your computer
The menu of the Plus! icon displayed in the chat windows toolbar now appears more quickly on older computers
The Plugin API has been improved in many ways
The Auto-Accept feature now works properly in Windows 98 and Windows ME
The menus of your instant message windows are properly updated when plugins are added or removed dynamically
A new option has been added in the preferences panel to allow sending periodic statistics to the msgplus.net server
Added "MenuInclude" registry setting for quick text
Custom Emoticons that use one character for their shortcut can now be mixed with Messenger Plus! features (commands, word filters, ...)
Added "ShowNotMinimised" registry setting
The "MultiFormatColorPanel" and "HandleNotificationRClick" registry settings have been declared obsolete and are not supported anymore
No more problem when using Custom Names and talking to a contact who uses Web Messenger
The parameters of some commands are now trimmed automatically (spaces at the beginning are removed)
The Afrikaans, Indonesian, Bosnian, Galego, and Valencian translations have been removed from the main distribution package
A couple of other minor fixes

[Sam58]

Messenger Plus! 3.25.106

Je sais, je sais... :?

[ditche]

3.50.124

[Maverick]

3.52.130