Messenger Plus! Live 4.23.276 (05/06/2007)
- Fixed: the icon to access the 6th anniversary contest disappears after
June 5th.
- Fixed: the "Format Codes" button is not added in the Messenger options
in Chinese versions of Messenger.
- Fixed: in some rare instances, Messenger 8.5 may crash after closing a
chat window (remember that support for this version of Messenger is still
beta though)..
- Fixed a couple of other small problems.
Messenger Plus! Live 4.22.274 (01/06/2007)
- Support for the Messenger 8.5.0517 public beta. The interface of
Messenger Plus! will be improved to match the changes when the final version
of Messenger 8.5 is released.
- Fixed: Messenger may crash if Messenger Plus! cannot initialize properly
in some precise circumstances.
- Scripts: fixed Contact objects not accessible in contact events (such as
ContactStatusChange) between OnEvent_Signin and OnEvent_SigninReady.
- A couple of small glitches fixed.
Messenger Plus! Live 4.21.270 (16/05/2007)
- Added support for the new "I'm" emoticons of Messenger 8.1 in various
Messenger Plus! windows.
- Some improvements for script developers:
- The script editor window remembers its size and position.
- A "find text" window has been added to the script editor, accessible
from the Options menu or with Ctrl+F.
- On error, the script debugging window now displays the file name
associated with the line number where the error occurred.
- This version includes access to the 6th anniversary contest that will
start in about a week from now. This will be removed in
the next version when the contest is over. For more information, check out
the announcement on msgpluslive.net.
- A new selection criteria has been added for event notifications. You can
now choose to create notifications that automatically apply to contacts with
opened conversation windows. Useful for example to get notified when someone
signs-out unexpectedly if you don't notice it in the chat window.
- No extra header is added to chat logs anymore when closing a chat window
and reopening it soon after. The default timeout for new session headers is
10 minutes and can be modified with the new ChatLogSessionWait registry
setting.
- To help people who customize the looks of their Messenger Plus! chat
logs, if a "custom.css" file is found in the Messenger Plus!'s installation
directory, it is automatically copied in the directory of newly created
XHTML chat log files (only if no custom.css file already exits in the
destination directory).
- Blocked contacts are now displayed with the grey offline buddy icon when
needed in tabbed chats and desktop contact windows.
- An option has been added to display the e-mail of the current user in
the tooltip of the systray icon (mostly useful when using several accounts
together, enabled by default).
- The contact name displayed in custom event notifications can now be
modified by formatting the message like this: \Name\Message.
- A Turkish translation has been added to the setup.
- Added a new fail-safe mechanism to add the "Plus! Not Loaded" menu in
more failure circumstances, to inform the user of the problem.
- The setup uses a better compression method and is now even smaller than
it was for version 4.00.
- Scripts from the previous script developer contest are not included
anymore (they can all be downloaded from the site).
- The default font for HTML chat logs has been changed from Microsoft Sans
Serif to MS Shell Dlg (which actually maps to your system's default UI font).
This was changed in Messenger some time ago and the change in Messenger
Plus! will reduce the size of HTML log files generated with the default font
(the logs will look the same as before).
- If several event notifications apply to the same user and have exactly
the same parameters (message & sound), the notifications are not duplicated.
- When a script is installed, enabled or disabled, the change is reflected
in every Messenger currently running. When that happens, all
the scripts in the other instances are restarted. To avoid causing problems
to script developers, creating a new script or editing an existing one will
not trigger an automatic reload in the other instances.
- Fixed: scripts or add-ons that add a systray icon can cause problems to
some of the Messenger Plus! features.
- Fixed: the new enhanced text copy feature does not support RTF
(formatting attributes are not copied with the text).
- Fixed: the enhanced text copy feature is not used when pressing Ctrl+Ins
or Shift+Del.
- Fixed: Messenger Plus! notification popups do not stack and appear one
at a time.
- Fixed: encrypted logs cannot be generated nor read on some Windows
accounts if the Messenger Plus! keyset container got corrupted.
- Fixed: auto-update setup does not launch on Windows Vista (fixed for
future auto-updates, excluding this version).
- Fixed: Messenger Lock does not sign-out the current user if his status
is appear-offline (when "sign-out" is the status selected for the lock).
- Fixed: chat windows cannot be opened anymore and Messenger may crash if
a third-party software is used to close a tabbed chat window.
- Fixed: bug introduced in the last version. Tabbed chats don't flash when
some special actions such as /me commands or winks are received.
- Scripts: fixed a problem with rich edit controls re-appearing after a
position change of the parent.
- Scripts: added EditBox_SetCurSel, EditBox_ReplaceSel,
EditBox_GetCurSelStart, EditBox_GetCurSelEnd,
RichEdit_GetTextRange and
RichEdit_SetCharFormat to PlusWnd objects to simplify working with edit
controls.
- Scripts: Interop::Call and Interop::Call2 now accept up to 12 parameters
so that functions like CreateWindowEx can be called if needed.
- Scripts: fixed title bar draw glitch when sending WM_SETICON to an
interface window.
- Scripts: OnEvent_Timer function calls are not automatically displayed in
the Script Debugging window anymore. This prevents the window from filling
up with continuous repetitive calls.
- And yes, many other small things fixed here and there that are not worth
mentioning :-).
Messenger Plus! Live 4.20.262 (28/02/2007)
- Various visual adjustments for Windows Vista. Some of them are dependant
of your system's configuration and theme settings. This includes, but is not
limited to:
- Animation effects when most Messenger Plus! windows open and close.
- Fixed "black box" display glitch when resizing Messenger Plus!
windows.
- Drop-down lists (combo boxes) in Messenger Plus! windows look
better.
- Most "open file" and "save file" windows use the new Vista template.
- No more sluggish transition effects on some of the controls when the
mouse pointer passes over them.
- All windows now display properly with right-to-left languages.
- Tabbed chats don't create an empty area in Flip3D. The chat window
is not part of the flip sequence but is displayed in the background.
This may be improved in future releases but it all depends on the
(rather limited or undocumented) new DWM API of Windows.
- This version of Messenger Plus! is distributed with some additional
scripts. Scripts add various new improvements to Messenger and are all
developed by third parties, people like you and me, who give some of their
time to help the Messenger community. The installation of scripts can be
disabled in the setup and future versions of Messenger Plus! won't
necessarily be distributed with the same scripts (or any at all for that
matter). These scripts have been bundled mainly so that a larger portion of
the Messenger Plus! userbase discovers the benefits of installing scripts.
The scripts distributed with this version are all available in the script
database at msgpluslive.net, along with 250 more :). I hope you'll all enjoy
these fine creations!
- Administrator privileges are not required in Windows Vista anymore when
importing sound packs and scripts from the Windows shell.
- Messenger is not launched automatically at the end of the setup of
Messenger Plus! if the setup is not running in the context of the currently
logged on user (happens in Vista if the setup is launched from a
non-administrator user account).
- Importing sound packs and scripts from the shell in accounts with no
administrator privileges now works properly in Windows Vista.
- No more use of virtualized directories in Windows Vista. The necessary
security rights are set to some of the directories created and accessed by
Messenger Plus!.
- Added new feature: text copied in chat windows (in both the received
messages and typing areas) now includes emoticons
codes instead of white spaces.
- Preferences pack files now have an associated icon and can be imported
from the shell.
- Added Hebrew language to the main distribution package.
- The (!VER) tag now reports the edition of Windows Vista.
- The Control key needs to be pressed when deleting a contact in the
Contact List Clean-up window to block it as well.
- No more "Error 8005" when the setup of Messenger Plus! is launched on a
system with some font problems.
- Chat logging is disabled by default in guest accounts.
- The Contact Information window now displays the personal message as
well. Also, the display picture has been fixed when using a right-to-left
language in Messenger Plus!.
- A new icon has been added in the contact list and the chat windows to access the scripts'
menus.
- The way the task bar flashes when a new message is received in a tabbed
chat has been improved to avoid missing unseen messages. This feature has
also been fixed for Windows Vista.
- Added a diagnostic message in the setup to download and repair the MSXML
3 library from microsoft.com. This helps fix "Error 8008".
- The setup has better chances to succeed if Messenger is running in
different user sessions when installation occurs.
- Fixed: the tabbed chats bar may display no name or status for newly
created chat windows.
- Fixed: using the /psm command with IRC format codes can corrupt
Messenger's Contact cache and prevent users to sign back-in.
- Fixed: encrypted log files located in a read-only folder cannot be
decrypted by the Log Viewer (known limitation: pictures aren't displayed in
html log files when that's the case).
- Fixed: some Messenger Plus! menus have a bad internal looking extra
contour.
- Fixed: (!M) tag doesn't display the proper email for Yahoo contacts.
- Fixed: the chat history window can become a little bit messed-up when
sending several emoticons that half transform into bbcode in the same
message.
- Fixed: when in Messenger Lock mode, the Messenger icon in the systray is
reverted back to normal if explorer.exe crashes and the systray bar is
recreated.
- Fixed: the Log Viewer doesn't display folders that only contains
sub-folders.
- Fixed: Messenger Plus! displays "yahoo:" in front of Yahoo contact's
names.
- Fixed: "In a call" status is not considered to be "Busy" by some of the
features of Messenger Plus! (like playing sounds).
- Fixed: floating desktop contacts of yourself do not work properly.
- Fixed: the scripting documentation cannot be downloaded from the editor
window in Windows Vista.
- Fixed: can't import scripts when the full path to the scripts directory
is not readable by the current user.
- Scripts: fixed Contacts::GetContact() and Messenger::OpenChat() for contacts that are connected on
the Yahoo network.
- Scripts: OnEvent_ContactSignout is never called anymore after
OnEvent_Signout.
- Scripts: OnEvent_Uninitialize is always properly sent when Windows is
restarted while Messenger is still running.
- Scripts: Added a <Version> element in ScriptInfo to help developers
specify the version of their scripts. This will prevent duplicated copies of
the same script from being installed on a user's system (as the name of the
script is used to create the corresponding script's directory). This tag is
displayed in the import and preferences window.
- Scripts: OnWindowidEvent_LstViewClicked events are now sent when the
user clicks in an empty part of the control. In that case, ItemIdx is -1.
- Scripts: added OnWindowidEvent_LstViewSelStateChanged event for ListView
controls. This even is fired every time an item is selected or unselected.
- Scripts: the documentation has been updated in several places. Please
make sure you get the latest version! (and as a general rule, try to
remember to check for documentation updates every month or so. The
documentation can be updated/improved even when Messenger Plus! itself
isn't).
- Scripts: added MsgPlus::UILangCode property to get the code of the
language currently displayed by Messenger Plus!.
- Scripts: added ChatWnd::HistoryText_GetCurSelStart and ChatWnd::HistoryText_GetCurSelEnd
to get the current selection in the message history area (where messages are
received).
- Scripts: added ChatWnd::HistoryText_GetTextRange to get a portion of
text from the message history area.
- Scripts: added MsgPlus::DownloadFile function and the corresponding
OnEvent_DownloadFileComplete event to allow scripts to download files
asynchronously.
Messenger Plus! Live 4.11.254 (28/11/2006)
- Messenger Plus! now always works properly when a SOCKS server is
configured in the Messenger options (can happen when installing other
add-ons such as SimpLite-MSN). This fixes problems with contact events not
being detected.
- Every Messenger process launched in the system is now terminated if
necessary during setup to prevent "file locked" problems.
- Fixed: Messenger crashes if a script or a sound pack is attempted to be
imported while Messenger Plus! has not been loaded properly (when the
"Software Not Loaded" menu is present).
- Fixed: some preferences may not be loaded and scripts may not be started
when Messenger is launched automatically by another product such as Windows
Live Mail.
- Fixed: messages sent with multiple lines are not logged properly in
Messenger 8.1 in XHTML logs (line breaks were not written properly).
- Fixed: scripts that throw an exception during a DLL function call may
crash Messenger if the scripting debug window is not displayed. This caused
some scripts that seemed to work fine in version 4.00 to crash with version
4.01 and 4.10.
- Fixed: the AlwaysReloadInterfaces registry setting does not function
properly.
- Scripts: parameters ranging from 0x80000000 to 0xFFFFFFFF can now be
passed to Interop.Call without the need for an extra workaround.
- Scripts: "null" values can now be passed to Interop.Call and are
interpreted as "0" (integer).
- Scripts MsgPlus.Version returns a better floating point value (see
update in documentation).
Messenger Plus! Live 4.10.250 (11/11/2006)
- Compatible with the public beta version of Windows Live Messenger 8.1
(can't be sure about the final but it should be alright).
- Supported internal registry settings are now
documented on msgpluslive.net.
This gives access to more than 20 different kind of settings to the most
hardcore Messenger users.
- Commands are now recognized even when some characters are automatically
replaced by custom emoticons.
- The search feature in the sound panel can now display multiple pages and
does not display "get random sound" entries.
- Added an internal message to help skinning applications interact with
Messenger Plus!.
- Quick texts now always properly parse emoticon codes.
- Enabled scripts are now displayed first in the preferences panel.
- Floating contact windows can now be hidden for a couple of seconds when
clicking with the middle mouse button on them. Useful when you want to
temporarily access something that's behind the windows.
- If Messenger crashes when started, every installed script is disabled as
a precautionary measure and a message is displayed.
- Added Arabic language with full right-to-left support. Every window in
Messenger Plus! is properly mirrored when this language is selected (as long
as support for RTL languages is installed in your Windows).
- Fixed: the XML event log file can be corrupted by new external mail
events depending on the language file Messenger Plus! is using.
- Fixed: event notifications and sounds don't work properly with Remote
Desktop.
- Fixed: the setup displays a system error instead of a user friendly
error when launched on Windows 2000.
- Fixed: Messenger may crash the first time a user signs-in after
installing Messenger Plus! if old external mail settings are imported from
Messenger Plus! 3.
- Fixed: no overwrite message is displayed when saving a display picture
file from the Contact Info window with an existing file name.
- Fixed: contact names sometimes appear as "1" in the windows of Messenger
Plus! when Yahoo Interop is activated.
- Fixed: no more unnecessary extra space character when inserting bbcode
tags with a keyboard shortcut.
- Fixed: scripts can't be imported when the Scripts directory does not
exist.
- Fixed: Quick Icons panel doesn't display when a parenthesis is typed
after a carriage return has been inserted in the message.
- Fixed: receiving multi-line messages with plain-text chat logging turned
on can freeze Messenger.
- Fixed: commands don't work in quick texts that contain smart tags (like
(!N)).
- Fixed: false name change notifications in the event viewer for Yahoo
Messenger contacts upon signin.
- Fixed: on systems with several screens, Messenger Plus! windows that are
minimised on smaller screens sometimes restore bigger than they should.
- Fixed: Messenger Plus! can mix-up the settings of different contacts who
have very similar email addresses.
- Scripts: added Messenger::CustomEmoticons property to access the custom
emoticons of the current Messenger users.
- Scripts: added "Emoticons" and "Emoticon" objects. They are both pretty
straightforward to use (see documentation).
- Scripts: an error is now logged in the Script Debugging window when an
exception is thrown in Interop.Call.
- Scripts: when importing a script that's already installed, if some files
are locked in the script's directory, Messenger Plus! restarts Messenger to
unlock the files and complete the installation procedure (can be useful in
cases where an ActiveX is loaded and refuses to unload when the script is
stopped).
- Scripts: added EnterPersonalizedStatus and LeavePersonalizedStatus
events to notify when the user activates or disables a personalised status.
- Scripts: added PlusWnd::RegisterMessageNotification. This new function
can be used by more advanced scripters who want to receive specific messages
processed by their windows.
- Scripts: DataBloc:GetAt and DataBloc:SetAt use unsigned values now.
- Scripts: sending WM_SETTEXT to an interface window changes both the
caption and the title of the window.
- Scripts: Interop.GetLastError() now works properly (see documentation).
- Script: Interop.Call and Interop.Call2 now accept parameters ranging
from 0x80000000 to 0xFFFFFFFF.
- Scripts: added a flag to MsgPlus::CreateWnd to allow the creation of RTL
windows.
- Scripts: .NET 2.0 assemblies are now registered properly even when .NET
1.0 or 1.1 is also installed in the system.
- Scripts: added ChatWnd::AddContact() to invite contacts to join existing
chats.
- Scripts: a special error is logged in the debug window when Interop.Call
is used on functions that are not declared as __stdcall. Script developers:
do NOT ignore these errors, they will cause instabilities and eventually
crash Messenger in random places.
- Scripts: creation of a new application called "Interface Tester". It
allows script developers to test their interface files and preview the
result as when loaded in Messenger Plus!. It can also validate xml files
against the interface schema file. The software can be downloaded from a
link in the new version of the
Scripting Documentation.
- Several other internal improvements.
Messenger Plus! Live 4.01.240 (16/07/2006)
- Messenger Plus! Live now refuses to start on previous beta
versions of Windows Live Messenger.
- Added compatibility for the "Clean Messenger" patch.
- Clicking "Apply" in the preferences to select a new language closes the
preferences window to make sure the changes are applied properly.
- More resistant to Smiley Central, although if you install or uninstall
it after Messenger Plus! Live, you'll have to reinstall Messenger Plus!
afterwards.
- Emotion sounds are not played when another user is current logged in
Windows.
- "Auto replace" quick texts enclosed in ## characters now work properly
for text smaller than 3 characters.
- The Messenger Lock preference's section has been reorganised.
- Every character entered while the command helper window is displayed is
properly inserted in the edit window.
- The Quick Icons panel is back! this was initially planned for version
4.10 but all your messages convinced me that I couldn't delay this feature
anymore.
- The panel now has a fixed size and provides a scrollbar to navigate in
your list of emoticons. It loads faster this way and helps keeps things
organized.
- Custom emoticons are rendered a little bit bigger than before to
help recognition (as 6 foot tall emoticons seems to be the trend nowadays).
- You now have an option to replace Messenger's emoticon panel by the
Quick Icons one (when clicking on the emoticon icon in the toolbar or
pressing Ctrl+E).
- Customization of the panel is much easier and understandable than
before. You can create as many customised sections as you want , each with
their own names. Use this to group emoticons by theme, frequency of use,
etc...
- Fixed: closing the sound panel while a sound is being loaded for preview
can crash Messenger.
- You can now choose to display 20 sounds at a time in the sound panel.
- Scripts: Menu buttons now generate CtrlClicked events.
- Scripts can now be installed in Windows Vista and on limited Windows XP
accounts (remember that Vista support is still experimental though).
- Scripts: LstBoxSelChanged and LstBoxDblClicked events are properly
generated.
- Global shortcuts can now be associated to personalized statuses.
- Double clicking on a script pack or a sound pack in Windows Vista works
properly (in Vista, it currently requires administrator privileges, you can
bypass it by importing the files directly from the Messenger Plus! windows).
If you still fail to import a specific script in Windows Vista, delete the
entire "C:\Users\accountname\AppData\Local\VirtualStore\Program
Files\Messenger Plus! Live" directory and restart Messenger.
- Fixed: commands or scripts that send messages while a message is already
typed in the edit window causes emoticons to be lost.
- Scripts: the Messenger::MyName property can be changed even when the
user is using a personalised status with a name tag.
- Scripts: the OnEvent_ContactMediaChange and OnEvent_MyMediaChange events
are fired when the media is removed.
- Fixed: audio and video requests are not automatically accepted when
"Auto Accept" is enabled.
- Fixed: Messenger is not launched properly with MSN Explorer when
Messenger Plus! Live is installed.
- Compatible with MSNP14 (currently enabled when you sign-in for Yahoo
Messenger interoperability). Messenger Plus! can now interact with Yahoo
Messenger users exactly like it interacts with Windows Live Messenger users
(remember however that your Yahoo users won't be able to benefit from
features such as emotion sounds).
- Fixed: very short emotion sounds sometimes don't "stop" and the link
doesn't change to Play when the sound has ended.
- Scripts: added Contact::Network property to identify contacts from Yahoo
Messenger.
- A couple of other minor glitches fixed.
Messenger Plus! Live 4.00.235 (24/06/2006)
- The previous versions required Windows XP SP1 minimum to run, this
version can run on an unpatched Windows XP machine.
- Fixed another problem that caused Messenger Plus! Live to fail to load
on some computers for no apparent reason (bypassed an internal requirement
that is not valid anymore with Windows Live Messenger Final).
Messenger Plus! Live 4.00.234 (24/06/2006)
- Messenger Plus! has been re-created from scratch, from the ground-up. In
the past 8 months, 128,000 lines of codes have been written for Messenger
Plus! Live, making it the biggest project for me to realize so far. As
you'll see, every feature has been improved and re-thought for Windows Live
Messenger. Also, for the first time in Messenger Plus!'s history, backward
compatibility has been dropped. This means that this version only works with
Windows XP and above and requires at least Windows Live Messenger 8.00
(final public version). You may notice that some previous features from
Messenger Plus! 3 are missing. Some have simply been deprecated, others (like
the emoticon panel) will be added back in a future update.
- Messenger Plus! is now compatible with 64bits version of Windows and is
Vista ready. It is compatible with Windows Live Messenger 8.00.787 and above
(it won't work with previous beta versions of Messenger).
- Below is a list of some (but not all) changes compared to Messenger
Plus! 3. The actual change log from the beta test period spawns on 15 pages
so you'll understand that what's listed below is really a small subset of
the whole new program.
- General Messenger
Features:
- BBCode style format codes can now be used to add colors and text
formatting to your messages/name/psm. These tags are easier to use and
don't look as bad as the previous codes in the list of your
contacts who don't have Plus! installed.
- No more need for a permanent running process (msgplus.exe) and no
more need for the Plus! loader DLL to be loaded everywhere in your
system. Messenger Plus! now sticks to Windows Live Messenger.
- Messenger Lock (includes the former Boss Protection feature) has
been improved. You now have more options to hide Messenger including
hiding the tooltip and requiring a special keyboard shortcut to be
pressed to unlock.
- Plus! has built in polygamy (using messenger with several accounts
simultaneously) built-in. Note that the option in Messenger Plus! is
more "polished" than what you usually get from patches (not because the
patches are bad. By its nature, Plus! simply has more flexibility in
these matters). For example, you won't get two Messenger clients opened
at the same time when you restart your computer.
- Contacts On Desktop. The floating windows have been redesigned and
can be customized a lot more. You now have the option to let the contact
window flash on new messages and to change transparency based on you contacts' statuses. You also got more choices as to what's to be shown
there: contacts name, contacts e-mail, name and personal
message, e-mail and personal message. Emoticons are also shown in the
floating windows as well.
- Event Logging. Events can now also be saved in an XML data file. You
can filter out contacts you do not wish to log events from. In the newly
redesigned Event
Viewer you can choose what events to display and a search box allows you
to quickly find what you're searching for.
- Conversation Windows:
- Improved: quick access to previously sent messages by using the key combination Ctrl+Up / Ctrl+Down.
Messages from older and other chats can now be accessed from here.
- New formatting panel in the toolbar for easy access to formatting
codes and colors.
- Tabbed Chats. The feature has been redesigned to be more "user
friendly", however, this required some previous options to be removed: the possibility to group/ungroup chats manually with a
key combination has been taken out. No more auto-switching to a chat with
unread messages either. Emoticons are now displayed in the contact's names
and the tabbed bar integrates better in the window.
- Logging. Chat logs can now be saved in HTML format to keep the same
look&feel you get during your chat. All your color and emoticons are
kept in your logs. Extra options for HTML formatting are the
possibility to save images (ex: for winks) and to save your contacts' font.
Of course, you can still save in plain text format if that's what you
prefer :).
- Messenger Plus! now comes with its own integrated Log Viewer for
easier browsing of your chat logs. For more advanced users, the log
viewer also provides command line parameters (type /? for more
information) to automate changing password, encrypting or decrypting
files.
- Logs Encryption has been improved a lot. You can now choose how strongly
you wish to encrypt your logs: low encryption for faster
opening of logs or stronger encryption for extra security, choices for
the asymmetrical key are
384, 640, 1024 or 2048 bits. Old encrypted logs can still be opened with
the log viewer but newly encrypted logs won't mix with the old files.
- Part of the old word filter feature is now integrated in the the
redesigned Quick Texts feature (for send text only, not
received). The new quick texts are much more flexible and are not
subjects to the old limits.
- Customizations:
- New: You can now show contacts Idle instead of Away when
appropriate. Another extra is to add a format button to the Messenger
Options (yes, formatting your nick is now possible through Messenger
Option panel itself).
- Notifications. More choices there too, you can get notified about
virtually anything...sign in, sign out, name change, psm change, current
media change, started new chat, all the status changes separate or all
status changes. You can even assign a special message or a sound to it,
create special expiration conditions, etc... note that Event
Notifications also replace the previous signin/signout panel from
Messenger Plus! 3.
- Sounds:
- New: You can choose to not play sounds when your current media
set, in other words, when you use the "What I'm Listening To" feature in WLM and you are playing a song (or other media recognized by this
feature).
- You can now decide from the preferences panel whether or not to share your Sound Library with all accounts.
- The maximum allowed length for Emotion Sounds has been increased to
12 seconds.
- Plugins/Scripts:
- The old plugins interface from Plus! 3 has been replaced with a
brand new scripting interface. The
scripting engine makes it easier for everybody to write their own add-ons (providing you know JScript, documentation is provided).
- The new scripting interface is provided with a comprehensive
documentation, samples (scripts created by beta testers which are
already available in the online script's database) and gives you more
than 150 functions/properties/events to interact with Windows Live
Messenger, all without having to compile your project from anywhere
but Messenger Plus! itself. If you're a developer
interested in creating your own Messenger add-in, now is your chance to
show off your skills!
- Old plugins can't be loaded anymore but previous plugin developers
are encouraged to use the many new features of the scripting interface
to improve their previous add-on.
- Contact List Clean Up:
- The time counters have been improved.
- You can now see if a contact has added you to his contact list or not.
- Contact Information:
- It is now possible to save your current contact's display picture from here.
- The window is much easier to use, including better access to events
recorded for a contact.
- That's all for the change log but remember that this
list only covers some of the main changes you are likely to notice. Keep in
mind that everything has been redesigned, meaning that everything works
better and smoother than before (not even the smallest feature was re-created
"as is"). I hope this new version will mark the beginning of a whole new
world of possibilities for Messenger Plus! and that you will all enjoy using
it :)
See change log for previous
versions of Messenger Plus!