Yo people! The Blasphemer (one of 2 creators of excelent MSN HandWriting plug-in that has been downloaded from mess.be ~64'000 times in its first week, becoming 3rd famous plug-in after Messenger Plus! and CE/DP Manager, plugin that made it's way even to Messenger Plus!'s homepage ) is now making another excelent piece of software, also a plug-in for Messenger Plus! a plug-in for MSN Messenger, that will just bring the old ConfigCache.XML back. Only this time it's called MsgrConfig.XML
So... the old-school way of addin' tabs is back

And, you do NOT need any patch or any proxy for MSN: just place plugin DLL and MsgrConfig.XML to your Plus! Plugins directory, and you're done (since it's official that plug-in will not be for MsgPlus! but for MSN Messenger itself, its not yet known what files will be extracted and to where)

I have a "beta-version" of that plug-in (for MsgPlus!), and it works pretty well, shows your tabs, enables mess.be games . The only problem is that plug-in is not always loaded in time, and if not, you need to restart MSN to get tabs and games. This is somethin' that can't be influenced by plug-in itself, so The Blasphemer decided to make a plug-in for MSN Messenger.

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Originally posted by SLim Shady
I need the URL of PNG icons of Neowin's and MsgPlus!'s tabs to put in my MsgrConfig.XML

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May I suggest to anyone who's going to make it public:
* WAIT before you make it public until you are absolutly sure it works correctly and it doesn't conflict with OS's, other plugins, etc.. etc... (we all know the big problems the handwriting plugin caused)
* Document it clearly and detailed!
* Put in some extra info if you post it on sites like mess.be which they can use to show on the download page! (like "only for yadda yadda")


<tab>
  <image>http://www.neowin.net/tab/images/tab.png</image>
  <name>Neowin.NET</name>
  <tooltip>Neowin.net. Where unprofessional journalism looks better.</tooltip>
  <contenturl>http://www.neowin.net/tab/</contenturl>
  <hidden>false</hidden>
</tab>

btw: looking forward to it...

Nice, looking forward to it!

I think i will make it public

Thanks for warning and thanks for tab info

Very interesting to see some people are working hard to add interesting features using MP!'s ablity to add home-made plugins to Messenger. Great news!

YES! sounds great! i cn't wait.

What version of Messenger will it work with?

I'm looking forward to it.
I don't wanna make my own tab since I don't want to screw my Messenger up .

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Originally posted by thekid
What version of Messenger will it work with?

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Originally posted by thekid
I'm looking forward to it.
I don't wanna make my own tab since I don't want to screw my Messenger up .

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sounds good means can use Sherv's Tab Manager again =P

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Originally posted by CookieRevised
You can't screw up messenger by making your own tab...

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Originally posted by CookieRevised
To patch a file yourself, you must be very experienced and you must know exactly what you're doing...[/qoute]
This made I chose not to make my tab
Thanks anyway for your info.

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That has nothing to do with making a tab... You're confusing things here. A tab is a html-page, nothing more, nothing less. MSN Messenger needs a link where all the different "settings" for a tab are stored. This link holds the definitions for a tab.

example of a definition of a tab:
<tab>
  <image>http://www.neowin.net/tab/images/tab.png</image>
  <name>Neowin.NET</name>
  <tooltip>Neowin.net. Where unprofessional journalism looks better.</tooltip>
  <contenturl>http://www.neowin.net/tab/</contenturl>
  <hidden>false</hidden>
</tab>

Back in the "old" days (Messenger 6.0), the file ConfigCache.xml held these difinitions. You could easly edited them. Now with Messenger 6.1, the ConfigCache.xml is placed on a server which has a tab-service. It is THAT link that you could patch to use other services.

You see, there is a big difference... You can make your own tabs easly (as they are just html-pages, for example: http://www.neowin.net/tab/), and this can't screw up messenger. There is no patching involved.

To use your tab, you need a service that is capable of showing custom tabs... http://www.msnfanatic.com/tabserv/ is such a service. I suggest to take a look there and also http://shoutbox.menthix.net/showthread.php?tid=20...d=192366#pid192366

what are the png's, gifs, and urls of triople block checker or is there any better ones or new ones coming out soon?

I very much like the custom game thin!?!?!

when will it be ready????

when? when? when?

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Originally posted by Barisko
I very much like the custom game thin!?!?!

when will it be ready????

when? when? when?

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seeing that it going back to the config.xml, me wonders if we'll be able to use images off our hard drive

It is agood idea, but currenly not possible... I dont know if this will be included, but i hope so myself

This wasn't possible in the "original" configcache.xml. And it seems a bit pointless too. I mean the tabs are all web-based and often need newsfeeds (so unless you run your own PHP localy on your Windows, it is a bit poinless to let only the icons be local).....

Or maybe for the skinners this would be nice... hmm...

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Originally posted by CookieRevised
Or maybe for the skinners this would be nice... hmm...

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Then they also haven't a place to host their tabs... so...
(btw, there our bezillion free hosts)

Web images do not always load instantly... Sometimes you see a ? for a couple of seconds...

Same with tabs (html-pages)

Realy cant wait for this to be released, I remember posting my configcache when I first discovered it. Everyone said it was crap lol. Hurry up and release this so I can put my old one abck into action

wens it out, wens it out!!!

so... what will be the diference with the Custom Game Patch that allready is out there?

Sounds great
The Blasphemer is on a rolll
Now If i can find that tab manager thing by sherv

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MSN MESSENGER 6.2 NEWS

[MSN Messenger 6.2 EXPECTED Thursday 22th of April 2004]

Also some great news for developers! You can now launch games from-within a internet page with Javascript! We are not sure yet if this also means you can launch custom games without patching your Messenger.

www.mess.be

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I can't wait t'ill it comes out


could someone tell me wtf is http://mlocate.spotlife.net/locate.sxml ?? ..