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September 20, 2004
Messenger Plus! Extension
Messenger Plus! Extension is a program that adds functionalities to the MSN Messenger chat program. Some of the added features are logging, personalized Away Messages, transparency effects, and a feature to minimize all MSN Messenger windows to the system tray.
Latest Changes:
* 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
Posted by Jon at September 20, 2004 08:57 PM