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Messenger Plus! 3.61

Posted by Steven Parker on 04 October 2005 - 08:52 · 18 comments & 2224 views

Thanks blaxez for this update notification, Messenger Plus! is the perfect companion for MSN Messenger, it adds an array of features among which are tabbed chats and per contact personalization.

Bug fixed that caused detached tabbed chat windows to disappear.
Tabbed chats are not wrongly resized when closing an active chat containing an activity.
A "SideBarColor2" registry setting has been added to control the appearance of the Plus! side bar and the group bar (for tabbed chats). This value is used in conjunction with "SideBarColor" and should be set by skin installers when necessary.
Due to many recent error reports related to third party Messenger Plus! plugins, upgrading from a previous version of Messenger Plus! to this one will automatically disable every installed plugin in every account. You can then re-enable the plugins you want to enable, with the knowledge that if a problem occurs, the plugins are the first things you should try to disable. You are also encouraged to verify if new versions of the plugins you use are currently available for the new versions of MSN Messenger.
An important bug was fixed that caused Messenger to crash at startup. This bug was the result of network monitoring applications (such as firewalls) installed on some systems that are not using a subclassable hooking mechanism on Winsock.
Note: the Tabbed Chats feature does not work correctly with WindowBlinds because of a bug in this software. If you want to use Tabbed Chats and have WindowBlinds installed, please add Messenger to your exclusion list.
A couple of display glitches have been fixed.

Download: Messenger Plus! 3.61 | 4.42 MB (Optional Sponsorware)

Screenshot: Features overview

View: Messenger Plus! Website

CHANGELOG:

feature: Call Forwarding
feature: Skype Test Call Service prepopulated to Contact List for new users
feature: 21 new emoticons
feature: My Pictures: possibility to choose pictures from Expressive Content
feature: RingToneManager for Expressive Content of audio files
feature: Contact List accessible by Microsoft Active Accessibility
feature: API: application-to-application communication
feature: API notifications for contactlist selection and focus
feature: API: set profile information
feature: API: call forwarding via API
feature: API: support expressive content files SET RINGTONE and AVATAR
feature: API: added OPEN [PROFILE | USERINFO | CONFERENCE | SEARCH | OPTIONS | CALLHISTORY | CONTACTS | DIALPAD | SENDCONTACTS | IMPORTCONTACTS | BLOCKEDUSERS | GETTINGSTARTED | AUTHORIZATION ] commands
feature: multilingual EULA
feature: advanced Skype links
feature: number of friends displayed in Profile View form
feature: possibility to set connecting sound from Options
feature: added dynamic messages for help and tips
feature: possibility to select and copy profile fields
change: new layout for Getting Started Wizard
change: Search window redesigned
change: Add friend window redesigned
Change: Import Contacts redesigned
change: quicksearch on addressbar improved
change: improved call related error messagas
change: 'minimize' button minimizes Skype to taskbar
change: warning dialaog added when calling to SkypeOut using callto: links
change: option to disable authorization message popups
change: MSN contact importer removed from Import Contacts
change: upgrade prompt supressed if installer is launched with SILENT or VERYSILENT option
change: removed latin spanish language
change: option to view online release notes after installation removed
change: option to create a Quick Launch icon removed from installer
change: explanatory text in Profile View if user has not been online recently
change: month names in Profile are translatable
change: options dialog is changed to nonmodal
change: Send Authorization dialog is changed to nonmodal
change: main window minimum size changed
change: new language files - Swedish (Anders Olsson), Finnish (Heino Keränen), Danish (Mathias Schwarz), Norwegian (Stig Auestad), German (Claudius Henrichs & Dick Schiferli), Dutch (Kees Koenders), French (Fabrice Imperial), Italian (Conte Daniele), Portuguese Brazilian(Anna Nyström ), Hebrew (Ronen Ben-Naftali), Russian (Viktoria Randalainen/Tatjana Kruti), Polish (Ewa Czekalska/Karol Szastok), Spanish - (David Reche), Estonian (Eve Loopere), Japanese (Tomo Suzumaru(Livedoor)/Mayu Shimizu), Greek (Panagiotis Sidiropoulos/Magenta LTD), Chinese Traditional (Morden Chen/PChome Online), Chinese Simplified (Leon Yang/TOM Online), Korean - (Daum Communications Corp), Romanian - (Paraschiv Ion & co), Turkish (Emin Dede) Arabic, Korean (Eriksen Translations Inc), Hungarian (Mark Bender), Bulgarian (Nikolina Filipova, Nikolay Filipov) Czech (Petr Silon)
bugfix: shortcut to desktop - dropped always, despite preferences
bugfix: changed sound channel usage,therefore improving the stability on older operating systems
bugfix: improved Multi Chat behaviour on multiple monitors
bugfix: authrequests do not pop up if your status is Do Not Disturb
bugfix: optimized loading of user-language file
bugfix: optimizations to have faster log-in
bugfix: improved unicode handling on win98
bugfix: status was incorrect in chat titlebar when disconnected
bugfix: improved URL parsing in chat
bugfix: addressbar search updated when new contact added
bugfix: 'start skype when windows starts' option will revert to default
bugfix: 'Enable All Sounds' option missed one checkbox in Options dialog
bugfix: wrong folder created to Documents and Settings when changing avatar
bugfix: toolbar texts not visible on clean install
bugfix: improved error handling when selected sound file is too big
bugfix: keybaord navigation in language editor
bugfix: Ctrl+F in chat window shows non-active main window
bugfix: toolbar buttons were not updated on some cases
bugfix: API: Error is returned if OPEN ADDAFRIEND command has too many parameters
bugfix: API: Using query id messed up replies to NAME and OPEN FILETRANSFER commands
bugfix: API: During voicemail recording SEARCH ACTIVECALLS returned call id
bugfix: API: When offline user tried to make a call with query id, error was returned without query id
bugfix: API: Contactlist change notifications were sent when focused contact actually did not change
bugfix: API: Other API messages were sent before “attach success” message

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#1 Posted by Lan88 on 04 Oct 2005 - 09:00: sweet, thanks for the heads up!

#2 Posted by nienor on 04 Oct 2005 - 09:03: Never get a glitch bu i'm always up2date thanks

#3 Posted by thenay on 04 Oct 2005 - 10:21: thanks for the heads up!

#4 Posted by kebabi on 04 Oct 2005 - 12:08: I hope this update fixes the tabbed chats 100% use of CPU.

#5 Posted by johnston on 04 Oct 2005 - 13:33: cheers, nice to see a gd changelog so soon after the big release

#6 Posted by rIaHc3 on 04 Oct 2005 - 14:18: Great job by Patchou. That "disable all plugins after install" is accually a pretty good addin the the addon.

#7 Posted by Lee69 on 04 Oct 2005 - 16:11: Will update now, thanks.

#8 Posted by xpgeek on 04 Oct 2005 - 17:32: Thanks for update news.

#9 Posted by Patches on 04 Oct 2005 - 18:53: Yummy.

(1 reply) #10 Posted by Zer0_II on 04 Oct 2005 - 21:31: Does anyone know the name of the optional "sponsorware"?

#11 Posted by thom225 on 04 Oct 2005 - 21:43: IE,FF and Opera says me that the link is broken to www.msgplus.net

#12 Posted by EduardValencia on 04 Oct 2005 - 21:49: hey,why i can't download anything,the connection is refusing

#13 Posted by Dale on 05 Oct 2005 - 03:41: the /nick command still doesn't work with Windows Messenger 5.1.0680

Patchou if you read this could you do a small little fix to that?

Yes, I realize I use Windows Messenger and could be using MSN Messenger, I also understand your reasons for not really supporting Windows Messenger completely. I am just hapy enough with Windows Messenger and see no need to move on to MSN Messenger 7.

Thanks.

By the way. Patchou, thank you for messenger Plus! if it wasn't for my pop3 email checker I would go crazy.

Last edited by 24287 on 05 Oct 2005 - 03:52

#14 Posted by Staind on 05 Oct 2005 - 06:28: Should I disable the messpatch applied to messenger?

(1 reply) #15 Posted by Adequate on 08 Oct 2005 - 03:30: Once again, people supporting spyware!

I don't care if it's optional, it's still a part of the package!

You people support spyware!

#16 Posted by Guol on 09 Dec 2005 - 07:08: sweet...thx

also..microsoft should really fix that antispyware thing.

because if someone installs the sponsor, and then 'removes' it through MS antispy they're kinda screwed because it totally stuffs up their PC and they cant get rid of it at all.
[although, the only way to remove it then is by re-installing the sponsor and then uninstalling it thru add/remove programs]

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