Messenger Plus Live 4.5 Released

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Messenger Plus Live 4.5 is out!

In the end, 6 months were necessary to create this update? 6 months! Looking back, I can?t believe time has passed so fast. This all started out like a standard minor update, destined to be labeled 4.30. I was working on it while most of you were clicking on the 6th Anniversary Contest grid. Then, an idea came up about improving the looks of the Plus! windows, followed by an urge to change everything, and when I finally decided to complete the skinning engine I had started 2 years ago, I knew the update would require more than another week to complete.

Here we are now, in December, 2 weeks away from Christmas, and the update has finally been uploaded to the servers! Not only that but the web site got a serious make-over as well. Everything looks nicer, everything works better; it is now up to you to decide whether or not all these changes were worth the efforts. Once again, I have to thank all the testers, all the translators, the graphic designers and the people in charge of the servers. They are all valuable members of the community, their help is precious and without them, Plus! wouldn?t be the software you know today.

As discussed in previous news posts, the main highlight of this update is skinning. You can now change the appearance of your Messenger, rapidly and securely. All the pictures can be modified, the windows re-shaped and the elements re-colorized? sky is the limit! Some of the testers did a lot of work in the past few weeks to showcase their talents and demonstrate how to work with the system. The resulting skins can be downloaded from the official Skins Database, a new section of msgpluslive.net. Note that some of these skins are not considered ?final? (polished enough) by their creators yet but they?re worth downloading nonetheless.

(More at source.)

Source: http://www.msgpluslive.net/news/2007/12/09...us-450-is-live/

Enjoy!

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Sweet :D. Btw you forgot to add the download link in the main post.

Download Messenger Plus! Live 4.50.310

Download page for Messenger Plus! Live 4.50.310

Yeah, okay. :p
Thanks

Any one noticed version = file size = 4.50 :p

I saw that, hahaha. I wonder if that was done specficially for v4.5?
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the skins is not working on wlm 9 ?

Some of them are, due to changes in WLM 9.0 most skins made so far haven't been updated. I'm in the beta testing team and most testers/skinners didn't have time to release completed skins with 9.0 support as well!

The skins database has compatibility information on the download page! :)

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I'm not having much luck with skins, the one that I tried, the only one that I like so far, Nightfall, forces the advertising banner on the buddy list back, even tho I already patched it to hide it, and the color choices don't work at all, its just black all the time no matter how I try to change the colors in the skins options.

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Nightfall is only in it's first release, other people say they have problems too, most patches eg messpatch and Apatch do not physically remove the adverts, they change a parameter to hide it as physically removing the block can and does screw up messenger. Your patch most likely had "layoutpos=none" on the advertisement element. the nightfall skin more than likely re-replaces this with the default code "layoutpos=bottom" thus the advert shows itself again.

Hope that makes sense :) unfortunately Patchou has made it very clear that we are not to physically remove or show an option to remove the ads in messenger, so if you do get a skin that you want to hide ads in, perhaps we've placed a HideAds.reg in the skins folder, just a tip for the future :)

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