Messenger Plus! 2.52.71

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That’s right Patchou has released yet another update to Messenger Plus!. Here’s a summary of this update in his own words:

”Once again, Messenger Plus! has been updated. Version 2.52 includes several important fixes (colors in names are back!), a new feature that should please all of you who are using custom emoticons, and a completely rewritten sponsor acceptance setup screen. In the past months, I received many complains from people who installed the sponsor program by mistake; as I want to keep all my users happy I made it almost impossible to install the sponsor without realizing it. For more information about the new sponsor "security measures" and the other improvements present in this new version, checkout the version history page. I hope you will all enjoy this new release! :)”

Messenger Plus! is an add-on for MSN Messenger and Windows Messenger, the two popular Instant Messaging software’s from Microsoft. Messenger Plus! adds different features to Messenger to make it more enjoyable for a regular usage. A list of the main features can be found on the main page of the Messenger Plus! site (click on the Features tab, next to Overview). For more information on this update check out the Read More section.

Note: Messenger Plus! is not a chat program, it only adds functionalities to MSN Messenger and Windows Messenger; it can't be used as a standalone application.

Download: Messenger Plus! 2.51.0068

View: Messenger Plus! | msgplus.net

News source: In-House

2.52.71 Version - 11/15/2003

New feature related to the Toast Notifications. You can ask Messenger Plus! to display notifications when your contacts sign in. Just deactivate the native online notification option of Messenger and use Messenger Plus! to get notified only when the contacts you really care about come online.
In the past months, many of you have complained about the sponsor program distributed with Messenger Plus!. A lot of you apparently didn't notice the checkbox in the setup program. Many arguments have been exchanged on the forum and despite everything bad that has been said about me, I've decided to make my users happier by modifying the setup.
- From now on, nothing is checked by default and you must select between "I accept" and "I refuse" before you can click on "Install".
- The "accept" word is in capital letters and clearly specifies that it will install the sponsor program in addition of Messenger Plus! (I always thought that the text displayed in previous versions was clear enough but again, I'm just doing everything my critics have been asking for).
- To avoid confusing people who don't take the time to read anything that's written in the screen, "Sponsor Agreement" is displayed in bold on top of the agreement. There's no way anyone can miss this :).
- I hope that these modifications will prove to some of you that I'm not the kind of person you think I am. Most of the things I've read about the sponsor program itself are written by people who didn't install it and who just assume a lot of things based on the company who's sponsoring me. I never forced anybody to install the sponsor so there's no need to spread lies about my software, and I hope that this new setup will convince you that my intentions are not earn my life in the expense of my users (I don't get paid more when I spend weeks adding new features).
The popup sound is played correctly for custom notifications when a contact changes his/her status to online.
Toast popups are displayed correctly at the top of the screen every time (when appropriate), even when the taskbar is hidden.
A lot of users have been requesting this feature since MSN Messenger 6 was released... custom emoticons can now be displayed in the Quick Icons panel.
- Unlike in the selection panel displayed by Messenger, the Quick Icon panel has no limit on the number of emoticons that can be displayed in it.
- All your custom emoticons are not automatically displayed in the Quick Icons panel. As a lot of people have tons of custom emoticons, I thought it was better to let you chose what emoticons to display (there's although a big technical reason for it so there's no need to ask for this improvement in the forum).
- The Quick Icons panel displays a Customize link that opens the configuration window. You can also configure your emoticons from the Quick Icons section in the preferences.
- For each icon you add in the panel, you have to select a picture and the associated text tag. In most occasions, you'll just want to put the same tag you associated to the icon in Messenger. However, you can enter more than one tag if you want to display simultaneously several emoticons stuck together (this seems to be pretty popular to display large images built from several small emoticons).
- If you have a lot of custom emoticons to display and if you don't really care for the original Messenger ones, you can ask to only display custom emoticons in the Quick Icons panel.
The old name of your contacts should be displayed properly every time in name change notifications.
The parameter of the /persostat command is 1 based, not 0 based.
Using Boss Protect or Lock Station while status is personalized doesn't change the status (when going in or out).
Messenger Plus! has now complete support for multiple monitor systems (finally!). This means that everything will now work fine if you have a monitor with negative screen coordinates. As a result, the SpecialMultipleMonitorSupport registry key has been deprecated.
Because Microsoft recently changed their rules concerning friendly names, a new multi-format coding system had to be created
- You must use /nick to change your name if you want multi-format tags in it. Normal IRC codes are replaces by special ones by this command.
- People who don't have Messenger Plus! 2.52 installed won't see the colors in your name.
- People who want to hide "says:" with some special color tricks can use the new /nick2 command. Note that I do not officially support this command, I just added it to avoid you the trouble to find some hack to go around the protections in /nick :).
Text mess-up bug fixed when using names with multi-format tags in combination of the Name Truncate and Custom Name features (you'll admit that it's not a common situation :p).
Added a /noformat command. This lets you send messages without multi-format tags being parsed (or emoticons). This is useful if you want to send your special formatting attributes to a contact. This command works only if your contact has Messenger Plus! 2.52 installed.
Some other minor bug fixes and improvements.

#1 Relativity_17 on 16 Nov 2003 - 10:49

There, people better stop bitching about that sponsor program now.

#2 mipra on 16 Nov 2003 - 10:56

hahahaha...you are saying exactly what I'm going to say.
People..let's get over it..ok? You dont like it, dont use it, stop swearing...if you do like the program..keep your comments posted here..

#3 mipra on 16 Nov 2003 - 10:56

Patchou has also fixed the nickname issue. There...Microsoft...we might be as fast as you are

(1 reply) #4 memodude on 16 Nov 2003 - 18:35

I am glad Patchou fixed it. It's not just that newbies click Next mindlessly, it's that experienced users in a rush might accidentally not unclick it. This is much better.

Also, please stop cussing about people annoyed that it comes with adware, I would be ticked off too if I accidentally got it installed (regardless that you just have to uninstall Messenger Plus! to get rid of it).

#4.1 mipra on 16 Nov 2003 - 19:11

I'm completely agree with that. Now, for those of you who want to install...please be very careful on the first 2 steps of installation if you dont want to install the sponsor....

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