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[Bug] Contacts on desktop by k776 on 09-20-2004 at 04:25 AM

This I think is the only 2 bugs I can find:

Sometimes when MSN closes incorrectly, or you right click msn contact window in the taskbar then close it with certain windows open it can do two things:

1) Make the contacts on the desctop disappear, then reappear once you open the msn contacts window again

2) Make them not be on top of everything even though they are on always on top. The only way to fix it is to right click, undo show on top, then redo show on top.

It happening to me right now.


RE: [Bug] Contacts on desktop by Patchou on 09-20-2004 at 05:12 AM

Can you elaborate on the way you make Messenger close to cause these problems?


RE: [Bug] Contacts on desktop by k776 on 09-20-2004 at 05:35 AM

well, not really, it just preforms an illegal operation. I have found another way it happens:

make one of them display on the top of something, right click the task bar and click show the desktop. The right click msn in the system tray and close. Then open it again, youll find they are still ticked but they dont show on top. (this only happens ocassionally though, keep repeating these steps till it works (it does it on mine 80% of the time))

This exact type of thing happens when msn has an illgal operation and it refreshes the screen after asking if you want to send error report.


RE: [Bug] Contacts on desktop by MoRiA on 09-20-2004 at 08:27 AM

I was just about to post this same thing. I had it caused by putting the computer into standby then resuming it. I thought they had vanished completely until I minimised all windows and found them..


RE: [Bug] Contacts on desktop by Skillumination on 09-20-2004 at 01:54 PM

What happened to me was..

I left the computer on, I had 6 contacts on my desktop, and I assume my sister signed me out.. I just signed back on, and I thought my contacts on the desktop had gone. I only noticed they were still there when I clicked on the Messenger! Plus icon next to one of the contacts that were on my desktop before, it said "Remove from desktop". So then.. I clicked the show desktop icon on my quick launch bar, and then I saw the contacts again. I opened up my Internet Explorer window and they went underneath, even though they were supposed to show over it. As k776 said, I had to untick "Always on top" and retick it to make all 6 of the contacts reappear above everything.

edit:

Software:
MSN Messenger 6.2.0137
Windows XP Home
Messenger Plus! 3.20.0100


RE: [Bug] Contacts on desktop by CookieRevised on 09-20-2004 at 02:05 PM

quote:
Originally posted by Patchou
Can you elaborate on the way you make Messenger close to cause these problems?

When a contact is moved to the desktop, only the keys Detach and Email are created in the ....\CtcDetach\<contact_email> tree.

It is only when you sign out that the rest of the keys are created. Thus if an error occures (or something else for that matter) in the main time, the rest of the keys aren't created... and thus the next time you sign in, the floating contact is not put "on top", although the menuitem is checked*....


* This also means that the keys aren't read properly for that individual contact, but instead the systemdefault ones are read, no? eg: Even if AlwaysOnTop doesn't exist for that individual contact, it shouldn't using the systemdefault value.



sorry if I'm wrong

EDIT: related bugreport I believe: tomfletcherman's reply to [split] saving location of desktop contacts?
RE: [Bug] Contacts on desktop by Patchou on 09-20-2004 at 06:43 PM

The reg keys are not created because, as for every other key in Plus!, they default to some values automatically (and always on top is a default).

I'll check out this bug and I'll release a patch soon,sorry for the inconvinience.


RE: [Bug] Contacts on desktop by Skillumination on 09-20-2004 at 10:32 PM

This is strange... I just signed out of my brother's account, and I just signed into mine, and the contaccts on the desktop were on top. It's a good thing, but it's strange since it didn't happen before :P. By the way.. I really love this feature. I think it's one of the best features.

edit:

I just came home from school.. nobody was signed in, I signed in, and the contacts on the desktop were below everything again. Like before, I had to untick "Always on top" and retick it for each of the contacts for it to be ontop of everything again.


RE: [Bug] Contacts on desktop by BEWARE^^ on 09-21-2004 at 09:03 AM

i never had this problem before :S and i still dont have this problem :)


RE: [Bug] Contacts on desktop by Ryster092 on 09-21-2004 at 08:26 PM

quote:
Originally posted by BEWARE^^
i never had this problem before :S and i still dont have this problem :)
What a thoroughly useful contribution to this bug report you have made ;-)

Im getting this problem too.  Last night I created 6 contacts on the desktop, then closed my messenger normally, then logged back on and created a few more.  They were all set to Always On Top when I created them.  However as I dragged a window over them,  only the ones I had just created were being displayed always on top.  the ones before the restart of messenger were not on top.  Unticking the always on top option and then re-ticking it puts them back onto again.
RE: [Bug] Contacts on desktop by Chestah on 09-22-2004 at 06:03 AM

yeah i have this problem as well, just then i signed into my msn and opened up firefox and it went over all my contacts :/,
i then unticked "always on top" and reticked it for every single floating contact and htey are now all back on top :S this is extremely annoying tho :P i hope u find the bug and fix it soon patchou!


RE: [Bug] Contacts on desktop by bloemkool on 09-22-2004 at 07:37 AM

Same problem here, but as Patchou already wrote he is working on an update!

Thanks for the effort P. :D


RE: [Bug] Contacts on desktop by Eric on 09-22-2004 at 02:18 PM

XD...Hopefully they will be better than ICQ's...