Message Customizer! Live lets you customize the formatting individually or in groups for your contacts with Messenger Plus!  If you do not want either a background or the text to be coloured then leave the beginning colour box blank.  For a single colour only fill the first colour box with a number corresponding to a colour.  Finally for a gradient look to your text colour and/or your background fill in both the beginning colour and ending colour boxes for the starting colour of the gradient and ending colour of the gradient respectively.  The numbers for the corresponding colours can be written as a colour index (only 0-68 as the others can be anything) or hexadecimal or decimal or can be automatically made using the colour selector window by pressing the colour selector button to the right of the corresponding box.


Made By
markee
NanaFreak

Commands
/mcabout (no message) Shows the gradient about window
/mchelp (no message) Shows the gradient help window
/mcconfig (no message) Shows the gradient configuration window


Version
v1.00.05 - Fixed major bug with with IRC gradients and fixed links in "Need more help page" and fixed Updater
v1.00.04 - Fixed some bugs with the save feature and fixed a bug with trying to remove contacts from a group that aren't there
v1.00.03 - fixed save bug
v1.00.01 - Recoded from Gradient v3

To Do
Add languages

Screen Shots


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I hope you enjoy the script.

If you have any comments and/or sugestions they are very welcome so please post them.

note: will have other languages soon!

I can't seem to get the gradient colours to work, how do u do them.

I think i may b duin them rong

Thx

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Got it working and works fantastic, wickd script man, keep it up

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Originally posted by Dally
I can't seem to get the gradient colours to work, how do u do them.

I think i may b duin them rong

Thx

Edit :

Got it working and works fantastic, wickd script man, keep it up

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Originally posted by Stalkid

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Originally posted by Dally
I can't seem to get the gradient colours to work, how do u do them.

I think i may b duin them rong

Thx

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Got it working and works fantastic, wickd script man, keep it up

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I didn't...

Could you describe what you were doing?

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I do have scripts for gradient messages but i need the option to disable the script for contacts without live messenger.

When I type /gradon or /gradoff i get an error. The command isn't known...

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Originally posted by Stalkid

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Originally posted by Dally
I can't seem to get the gradient colours to work, how do u do them.

I think i may b duin them rong

Thx

Edit :

Got it working and works fantastic, wickd script man, keep it up

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I didn't...

Could you describe what you were doing?

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Nice script. Very useful to be able to do it too certain people only.

Ah thx Jay_Jay, it worked with the plus menu in the conversation window.

Very good script!

Good Script

I'm glad you all liked it, btw I did a majority of the work he did some with the UI (help, about and working on a configuration one) and gave me some ideas of what to do.  I only wrote the code part of it, so it was a joint effort

Any further ideas are welcome and I'll see what I can do.

Is there any way that Messenger Plus contacts can see the gradient text. At the moment onli my Messenger Plus Live contacts can see the 2 colours being blended 2geva. Messenger Plus users just see codes.

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Originally posted by Dally
Is there any way that Messenger Plus contacts can see the gradient text. At the moment onli my Messenger Plus Live contacts can see the 2 colours being blended 2geva. Messenger Plus users just see codes.

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But still, Messenger Plus! 3 doesn't support the gradient feature in the first place, unless it is done manually

Cloudy

Edit: Why not just tell them to get plus live? They are behind... WAAY behind

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Originally posted by cloudhunter
Edit: Why not just tell them to get plus live? They are behind... WAAY behind (Smilie) (Smilie)

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Originally posted by Dally
Is there any way that Messenger Plus contacts can see the gradient text. At the moment onli my Messenger Plus Live contacts can see the 2 colours being blended 2geva. Messenger Plus users just see codes.

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Sorry thought I had uploaded v1.01 before but it looks like I didn't.  Hope this helps and markee has already started trying to put the Irc colouring in for you.

OK, I added a feature to put in the Irc colours, please note this only makes a block colour not a gradient as I dont think gradients can be done with the Irc codes that were used in MP! 3.xx.  This won't be uploaded into the first post until Jay_Jay comes home from school.  Until then you will just have to take it from this post.

The new commands are

/gradircon (any/no message)   Add contact to Messenger Plus! 3.xx list
/gradircoff (any/no message)  Remove contact from Messenger Plus! 3.xx list
/gradirc (colour number)      Colour for Messenger Plus! 3.xx contacts

You will also be happy to know that the contacts and colours you have listed are messenger account specific so this does not get passed on to other people using your computer, you will have to assign the olours and recipiets of the gradient text again.  Sorry for this but it is to make the script better in the long run.

EDIT: Also should add that if you have a contact to receive both kinds of text, the irc text will not show, only the BBcode (gradient) will.

EDIT 2: Script now avaliable from first post.

!BUMP! Sorry but i have just realeased a new version of the script it now works with MP! 3.xx I hope you enjoy it.

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Originally posted by markee
OK, I added a feature to put in the Irc colours, please note this only makes a block colour not a gradient as I dont think gradients can be done with the Irc codes that were used in MP! 3.xx.

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Originally posted by CookieRevised
It can perfectly be done with IRC-style format codes. Many plugins exist which do this for Plus!3 as a matter of fact. Though they do not automatically gradient the text by applying two colors at the beginning and end of the text, you need to calculate and apply your shift in colors manually (thus with the script).

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OK well I have made a script that makes a gradient for your friends with MP! 3.xx but the only problem is that it can only use hexadecimal for the numbers.  If someone could give the hexadecimal for all the preset colours I can then start integrating this into the gradient script.  I'm just really tired atm and have been spending the last four and a half hours (apart from dinner) working on this script and I have to get up in under 8 hours time .  If someone could do that for me it would be greatly appreciated.  Thanks and I hope you and your MP! 3.xx contacts will enjoy this script when I integrate it (should be by the weekend).

Can't wait till this script is finished. 50% of my contacts use the old messenger plus so it wud b kool if they can see the gradient text as wel.

Thx Markee

How about add gradient background fucntion as well?

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Originally posted by markee
Ever thought there friend might not be using XP?

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Originally posted by rockmanneo
How about add gradient background fucntion as well?

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Originally posted by markee
OK well I have made a script that makes a gradient for your friends with MP! 3.xx but the only problem is that it can only use hexadecimal for the numbers.

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Originally posted by cloudhunter

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Originally posted by rockmanneo
How about add gradient background fucntion as well?

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This would be a good feature, although it wouldn't work for Plus! 3 contacts

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Originally posted by markee
OK well I have made a script that makes a gradient for your friends with MP! 3.xx but the only problem is that it can only use hexadecimal for the numbers.

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Originally posted by CookieRevised

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Originally posted by cloudhunter

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Originally posted by rockmanneo
How about add gradient background fucntion as well?

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This would be a good feature, although it wouldn't work for Plus! 3 contacts

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Just as stated before, it would perfectly work when IRC-style format codes are used.

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Originally posted by CookieRevised
You can use decimal numbers too, just as you can also use RGB color values etc...

I suggest to take a look at the help pages of Plus! 3 in concearn to colors...

Also look in the plugin section of the forum for all the threads regarding color manipulation in Plus!3. Also take a look at the gradient plugins for Plus!3, etc...

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Originally posted by cloudhunter
As far as I know the Gradient Background is a new feature of Plus Live! ? By Gradient background is meant this:



If it is a feature unique to Live! then it can't be done for Plus! 3 contacts. I could be wrong though (often am )

Cloudy

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Originally posted by markee
Sorry but you are wrong Take a look at the old site and you will see how you could have done this (though I must admit I never knew about it either until I read it just then).

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Originally posted by cloudhunter
Well I couldn't find any way to do it myself, but i'll take your word for it, I like to be prooven wrong

Good luck with the script

Cloudy

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!BUMP! (because editing doesnt bump) New version is out. You can now send gradient text to IRC users (MP! 3 .xx). I hope you enjoy it.

ok i have any idea, i would like to be able to rainbow gradient my message so it starts off as red then goes through the other colours of the rainbow until finally going to pink, unfortunately the existing gradient script doesnt give you the option of using more than 2 colours in the gradient, can this be fixed?

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Originally posted by stuartbennett
ok i have any idea, i would like to be able to rainbow gradient my message so it starts off as red then goes through the other colours of the rainbow until finally going to pink, unfortunately the existing gradient script doesnt give you the option of using more than 2 colours in the gradient, can this be fixed?

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markee, thanks for looking into it for me, i guess either way would be cool i look to you guys to make the best choice on this one after all you have the experience in making these things. i do see your point about reducing how much you can type in messenger, i dont suppose its possible for anyone to write a script that increases the amount of characters message can have, i know plus does this up to 1100 but maybe if a script could take it upto say 11000 thatd be plenty even for long messages with gradients. as for short messages well perhaps below a certain amount of characters a rainbow wont be possible in which case it would just use a few colours from the rainbow i am not really sure.

Sorry but there is a new version. The old one (v1.20) wouldnt let BBCode work. But it is fixed now sorry about that. Now for hexdecimals you dont need the #.

sounds great ill download the update as soon as i get home tonight.

Hey JJ, I downloaded your script for learning purposes, and when I went to your script I noticed the Hex to Decimal stuff, colorcode to number. I think I can make that piece of code a lot shorter? Do you want me to help you out?

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Originally posted by Shondoit
Hey JJ, I downloaded your script for learning purposes, and when I went to your script I noticed the Hex to Decimal stuff, colorcode to number. I think I can make that piece of code a lot shorter? Do you want me to help you out?

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Ever considered building in the hexadecimal color codes?

It would be a bit more convenient than having to look them up online.

You could do base colors, if you dont wanna get too complicated.


(By the way, I'm not able to choose black as part of my gradient. Is this a bug?)

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Originally posted by Psycko
Ever considered building in the hexadecimal color codes?

It would be a bit more convenient than having to look them up online.

You could do base colors, if you dont wanna get too complicated.


(By the way, I'm not able to choose black as part of my gradient. Is this a bug?)

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JJ/Markee
I'm done changing the code it is a lot smaller now, and a lot easier to read...
I've added two functions: convertToHex and convertToDec and changed the average colors algorithm...

I haven't tested it yet, but it shouldn't give any problems...

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function convertToHex(val)
{
  var Hex = "0123456789ABCDEF";
  var ret = "";
  while (n != 0)
  {
    ret = Hex.charAt(n & 16) + ret;
    n >>>= 4;
  }
  return (ret.length == 0) ? "0" : ret;
}
function convertToDec(val)
{
  return parseInt(val,16)
}
//IRC Stuff
function Irc(sMessage,ChatWnd)
{
  var Message = sMessage
  var length = Message.length
  var WSH = new ActiveXObject('WScript.Shell');
  var colour1 = WSH.RegRead(MsgPlus.ScriptRegPath + Messenger.MyUserId + "\\irc\\colour1")
  var colour2 = WSH.RegRead(MsgPlus.ScriptRegPath + Messenger.MyUserId + "\\irc\\colour2")
  var c11 = convertToDec(colour1.substr(0,2))
  var c12 = convertToDec(colour1.substr(2,2))
  var c13 = convertToDec(colour1.substr(4,2))
  var c21 = convertToDec(colour2.substr(0,2))
  var c22 = convertToDec(colour2.substr(2,2))
  var c23 = convertToDec(colour2.substr(4,2))
  k = (length >= 16) ? 16 : length;
  var A = ((c21 - c11) / k);
  var B = ((c22 - c12) / k);
  var C = ((c23 - c13) / k);
  var colour = new Array();
  for (i = 0; i <= k-1; i++)
  {
    var U1 = convertToHex(Math.round(A * i + c11));
    var U2 = convertToHex(Math.round(B * i + c12));
    var U3 = convertToHex(Math.round(C * i + c13));
    var number = "" + U1 + U2 + U3;
    colour[i] = number
  }
  var eMessage = "0";
  var x = 0;
  var j = length/16;
  if (length >= 16)
  {
    for(i = 0; i < length; i++)
    {
      if (i == Math.floor(x*j))
      {
        eMessage = eMessage + "#" + colour[x] + "" + Message.charAt
        x++
      }
      else
      {
        eMessage = eMessage + Message.charAt
      }
    }
    if (i == 16)
    {
      eMessage = eMessage + ""
    }
  }
  else
  {
    for(k = 0; k < length; k++)
    {
      eMessage = eMessage + "#" + colour[k] + "" + Message.charAt + ""
    }
  }
  Message = eMessage
  return Message;
}

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Originally posted by Psycko
Ever considered building in the hexadecimal color codes?

It would be a bit more convenient than having to look them up online.

You could do base colors, if you dont wanna get too complicated.


(By the way, I'm not able to choose black as part of my gradient. Is this a bug?)

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Version 2.00 now avaliable

The much awaited configuration window is in to make it all a lot easier for you.  I also fixed the code up a bit to make it shorter (though I used another method apart from Shondoit's, he gave me the inspiration though).  The next version is going to have background gradient support.  Hope you enjoy it as much as I have.  Keep reporting bugs and expressing your ideas, they all help.

Nice script .

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Originally posted by markee
e it all a lot easier for you.  I also fixed the code up a bit to make it shorter (though I used another method apart from Shondoit's, he gave me the inspiration though).  The next version is going to have background gradient support.  Hope you enjoy it as much as I have.  Keep reporting bugs and

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Nice script .

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Originally posted by Nitrolinken
Good, it works here, (Smilie) 
A usefil script, (Smilie)

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cool and very cool script

the commands dont work please advise.

i tryed "/gradconfig" but it returned the following message.

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the command you entered was not recognised. if the message was not meant to be a command, insert a double "//" at the beginning.

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could you please tell me what version you are using because v2.00 is the only one with a config window.

i am using 2.00 which i downloaded from the link on the first post of this thread.

ok well i will put another attachment here but would u please beable to give me a screen shot of the problem (the command and the msg plus menu)

EDIT: removed the attachment becouse problem solved

I understand what you are saying (I don't think Jay_Jay does ).  Is the script enabled?  Have you tried to change anything in the script?

no i havent changed the script at all and yes it was enabled as it showed up in the list of scripts under the plus icon just no submenu from the gradient menu for a config window however the link jay jay provided 2 posts up after clicking on it and installing it it resolved the problem now theres no more errors, unfortunately it means i wont be able to reproduce the error i was getting.

Was the checkbox next to the script ticked before.  It automatically checks it if you install a script (or reinstall in this case).  I think that may have been what happened by what you are saying, or at least I hope that's what the cause was.

the checkbox had to be ticked as only the scripts with ticks next to them are listed with submenus in the plus icon on the WLM contact window. is it at all possible that the 2.00 listed in the first post was named as 2.00 but was actually version 1.21 or something and therefore woiuldnt work as was expected, and that when jay jay posted the new link he actually took care to link to the 2.00 file this time round. i know thats unlikely but i always beleive in eliminating every possibility.

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the checkbox had to be ticked as only the scripts with ticks next to them are listed with submenus in the plus icon on the WLM contact window. is it at all possible that the 2.00 listed in the first post was named as 2.00 but was actually version 1.21 or something and therefore woiuldnt work as was expected, and that when jay jay posted the new link he actually took care to link to the 2.00 file this time round. i know thats unlikely but i always beleive in eliminating every possibility.

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you can do gradient with plus, but this saves the code and set up,  easy good script maybe backgrounds?improvement?

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Originally posted by problem-solver-wlm
u can do gradient with plus but this saves the code and set up easy good script maybe backgrounds?improvement?

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Hey, I have a problem with this script, when I speak with more than one contact i don't see the gradient text anymore... is there a way to solve it?

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Originally posted by Orgrim Doomhammer
Hey, I have a problem with this script, when I speak with more than one contact i don't see the gradient text anymore... is there a way to solve it?

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Hey, I have a problem with this script, when I speak with more than one contact i don't see the gradient text anymore... is there a way to solve it?

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well i would bet the issue is that because you have to put a tick next to each contact that you wish to use gradient with in the config window then when your group convo includes contacts who arent ticked to receive gradients then it decides that because all contacts arent allowed to see gradients that none will get used. (markee, Jay jay am i right here?)

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now then a feature for this script that i just thought of, as it is i can tick many contacts in bbcode and many contacts in irc but only set one gradient format for that code group. wouldnt it be cool if i could create a gradient rule for each individual contact and have the option to create "Gradient Groups" for using one gradient style for a specific group of people. all of which could be setup from the config window, for example, my companys logo uses orange and blue so maybe all my messenger contacts from work could be configured in a gradient group to see my messages as orange to blue gradient, but that gradient wouldnt make sense to a member of my superdudes community buddies, now superdudes logo is red and yellow therefore in a different gradient group i could let all superdudes on msn read my messages as red text going into yellow text for example.

anyway let me know what you guys think, and doomhammer hope my suggestion helps resolve the problem for you.

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Originally posted by Jay_Jay
And you could use the IRC gradient for one of the groups because Messenge Plus! Live supports that and then use the BBCode for the other group. I hope this helps

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Ok thanks

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Originally posted by Jay_Jay
And you could use the IRC gradient for one of the groups because Messenge Plus! Live supports that and then use the BBCode for the other group. I hope this helps

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yes i do appreciate that is how you get around it presently, however who is to say your only going to have 2 groups of people that you want to customise colours for remember i only defined the colours for 2 groups of where i wanted to use special colours, if i did it your way where would i go to set the gradient that i want to use for everyone else that isnt in those groups? its just a thought you could define gradient groups by clicking and add gradient group button which launches the gradient group setup window. and then the main window for bbcode and irc would be for setting individual gradients against each and every contact seperately.

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fair enough i do appreciate it will be a time consuming process and i understand it wong get implemented yet, but yes if you could shelve the idea for implementation once you decide to take the script to the next level then that would be greatly appreciated atleast that way i will atleast one day see my idea put into action.

Hope you like the long awaited integration of gradient backgrounds to our script.  There has also been an update of the configration window which I hope you like too.  I hope you don't mind that it is another update and it has only been a week and a half but I guess I just can't help myself but to keep adding features (at least it was over a week this time).  Keep those ideas rolling and I will continue to do my best to integrate them.  Enjoy

I have just gotten a idea from some one on msn and that is a Nickname Gradient maker (to be in this script) and i just wanted to see if the people of this forum think that it would be a nice idea. So if you could please reply to this it would be nice

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Originally posted by Jay_Jay
I have just gotten a idea from some one on msn and that is a Nickname Gradient maker (to be in this script) and i just wanted to see if the people of this forum think that it would be a nice idea. So if you could please reply to this it would be nice

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I have just gotten a idea from some one on msn and that is a Nickname Gradient maker (to be in this script) and i just wanted to see if the people of this forum think that it would be a nice idea. So if you could please reply to this it would be nice

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Originally posted by Jay_Jay
I have just gotten a idea from some one on msn and that is a Nickname Gradient maker (to be in this script) and i just wanted to see if the people of this forum think that it would be a nice idea. So if you could please reply to this it would be nice

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I'm sorry but I can't see the use of this because it is in MP!L already and in a much more convinient place IMO.

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Originally posted by stuartbennett
i think i know what your referring to markee,  your referring to the "Format codes" button that appears next to your nickname box in tools options screen of messenger right? well assuming you are, yes it does sorta do gradients but its not user friendly, you can select a colour key in your text in between the two tags but that means you got to type each letter of your name in between seperate colour tags etc or to set gradients that do it for you you cant set it through the interface you need to know the code yourself, what was being suggested here is using the gradient scripts method of setting gradients on nicknames where you have a start colour and end colour box to select for text and a start and end for backgrounds etc.

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well i guess that like with the convo text gradients maybe a choice could be offered, and considering theres a limit on nickname size maybe for that section of the configuration you could add a character counter advising the user how many characters they have left before they hit the limit, that way when they go to setup a nickname they can design one within the limits allowed.

anyway lets see how it goes after all i know you and jay jay are very busy.

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Originally posted by stuartbennett
i think i know what your referring to markee,  your referring to the "Format codes" button that appears next to your nickname box in tools options screen of messenger right? well assuming you are, yes it does sorta do gradients but its not user friendly, you can select a colour key in your text in between the two tags but that means you got to type each letter of your name in between seperate colour tags etc or to set gradients that do it for you you cant set it through the interface you need to know the code yourself

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Originally posted by stuartbennett
i think i know what your referring to markee,  your referring to the "Format codes" button that appears next to your nickname box in tools options screen of messenger right? well assuming you are, yes it does sorta do gradients but its not user friendly, you can select a colour key in your text in between the two tags but that means you got to type each letter of your name in between seperate colour tags etc or to set gradients that do it for you you cant set it through the interface you need to know the code yourself

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you can do that perfectly...

Simply select your end color using the "format codes" button, remember it (or copy it) and choose your start color using the "format codes" button. Then simply copy that number you remembered at the end... done.

(and this explanation sounds even faaaaar more complicated than it actually is; it only takes 2 steps)

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1. Press "Format Tags" button
   
2. Click the "T" in the top right corner of the box that pops up
   
3. Go to "Gadient Text" and click it
   
4. Select your start colour
   
5. Select your end colour
   
6. Click "Ok" or "Apply" to make you diplay name coloured

the above procedure also applies to gradient backgrounds just replace the words "Gradient Text" with "Gradient background", while i know it does seem pretty easy that way i am still glad markee wants to put the nickname gradiator in the next version as although the above procedure is easy enough if you later decide the selected gradient wasnt what you wanted and only wanted to change 1 of the 2 colurs you still have to repeat the whole procedure again selecting both colours where as if it was part of gradient you would just click on the color icon next to which ever color you wanted to change which therefore saves the user a bit of time. thanks markee your the best.

For all you french speaking people who would like a copy of gradient it has been translated by Flo.  If anyone else would like to translate a version of gradient it will be greatly appreciated.

Btw thank you all for downloading our script, it makes me feel as if I have done something great (even though Message Gradiator gets more downloads per day than us ).  Be on the look out for the next version of gradient soon, there is going to be a whole lot of new features that I hope you will enjoy (far more than the makers of Message Gradiator ever included ).

Anyway, the french version of the script can be found below.

Thanks guys for adding gradient background. Dunno if this brought up already, however can you fix a minor annoyance where gradient background doesn't end where the text does. It ends one character after the last text. It doesn't look good with emoticons

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Originally posted by rockmanneo
Thanks guys for adding gradient background. Dunno if this brought up already, however can you fix a minor annoyance where gradient background doesn't end where the text does. It ends one character after the last text. It doesn't look good with emoticons

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we have this once space at the end so that the bat emoticon doesnt come up if u end with : sorry about this but its the only way

How about only having the space if there is a : just before it?

Cloudy

it would be possable but we are WAY to busy with other stuff for gradient sorry cant tell and dont hold your breathe for the next version it will be a little further away

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How about only having the space if there is a : just before it?

Cloudy

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ok cool we all appreciate your hard work guys and look forward to the next version.

Italian version of Gradient, translated by Orgrim Doomhammer.  Attached is a copy of the file.  The next version of gradient will have all the languages together (and furthermore will be easy to update with more languages in the future).  A big thank you for those people who have already said they will help translate the next version.  I will let you know when I'm getting close to completion to make sure that all tags are finalised before getting them translated.  Please do not expect this next version too early as I have a test this weekend and the assignments just never seem to end (probably something to do with having weekly ones for one of my maths subjects ).  Beleive me when I say the next version of gradient will be worth the wait.  Any further suggestion will be looked at for the next release as well if you come up with them soon enough.  A big thank-you to all those who keep using this script as well, it means a lot to me to know that people like what I'm doing.

markee

i noticed recently that a given nickname set on desktop contacts is set seperately from the one stored on the contact list by right click add nickname, now the nickname gradiater feature i suggested a while back which was originally for setting nicknames for your nickname (the logged in user) perhaps could be extended to enable you to gradiate your contacts nickname both on the contact list by say right click then add gradient nickname or from desktop by right click add gradient nickname. just a thought for taking this script a little further.

what do you think?

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i noticed recently that a given nickname set on desktop contacts is set seperately from the one stored on the contact list by right click add nickname

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(...) to enable you to gradiate your contacts nickname both on the contact list (...)

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(...) by say right click then add gradient nickname (...)

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(...) or from desktop by right click add gradient nickname.

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ok i understand what your saying, perhaps another way round all the problems you highlighted is when you click add/edit nickname in contact list or set nickname on a desktop contact and your actually there with the name in an editable state, perhaps you could at that point do some shortcut like ctrl+g that would initiate the gradiater interface for entering the nickname, after all i believe thats how the colour used to work in the old days right you did ctrl+n or p or whatever it was and colour panel appeared so this new idea for an inteerface might be easier to impliment.

regarding my 2 suggestions of adding items to right click menus i didnt know if it was possible or not i merely suggested a possible interface but any interface for accessing the gradiater will do.

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Originally posted by stuartbennett
ok i understand what your saying, perhaps another way round all the problems you highlighted is when you click add/edit nickname in contact list or set nickname on a desktop contact and your actually there with the name in an editable state, perhaps you could at that point do some shortcut like ctrl+g that would initiate the gradiater interface for entering the nickname, after all i believe thats how the colour used to work in the old days right you did ctrl+n or p or whatever it was and colour panel appeared so this new idea for an inteerface might be easier to impliment.

regarding my 2 suggestions of adding items to right click menus i didnt know if it was possible or not i merely suggested a possible interface but any interface for accessing the gradiater will do.

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ok markee like this lite window idea, my idea would be.

the boxes for gradients colours should be there but no list of contacts cluttering up space, you have 2 radio buttons to select either irc or bbcode mode and have 2 tabs desktop nickname and chat gradient. this lite version would only work for that specific contact (as lite wouldnt have a contact list) if people wanted to customise multiple contacts then they would have to go into the main config system same for setting your own nickname gradient.

what do you think.

just thought of a few ideas for new features.

conditional formatting:
users can setup a list of special words and set how each word or grouping of words should be formatted if used in the set format ion a block of text. for example if someone typed "coca cola" that user could have it formated with red background and white text so it looked like the logo. this would of course mean that lots of words getting formatted like this would give user less space to type a message but the user knows the restrictions so they can plan accordingly.

PSM Gradiater:
im not sure if your psm can be formatted with coolour or not, but if it can maybe you could add a tool to enable the user to build a gradient for their psm messenge.

ok let me know what you think.

Those sound like great ideas.  I can't believe I overlooked the PSM Gradiater when everyone else has been talking about the gradient of the nickname.  The conditional formating sounds good too, this would be like a quicktext but only for specific people (btw, I will most likely inlude this in the next build just so no-body else makes a script to do this in the meantime).

There may be a set-back for te next release as well because Jay_Jay fell over at school today and hurt his arm which he broke earlier this year, he's waiting on getting x-rays at the moment.  We will see what we can do, lets hope we can get something to you by the end of the month (even if Jay_Jay has to do it one handed).

EDIT: turns out he did break his arm

sorry to hear about jay jay's arm, we know you will both do your best to get this ready for as soon as you can, however its more important that jay jay lets his arm heal correctly, im sure i speak for everyone when i say we would rather have jay jays arms fixed and healing correctly then you guys risking his health to finish a script.

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sorry to hear about jay jay's arm, we know you will both do your best to get this ready for as soon as you can, however its more important that jay jay lets his arm heal correctly, im sure i speak for everyone when i say we would rather have jay jays arms fixed and healing correctly then you guys risking his health to finish a script.

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thanks jay jay, if you do decide to do that i would consider it an honor. anyways get well soon friend.

i can't wait to the next version of gradient comes out
i hope it includes the option to gradiate your WLM name

Sorry to say there have been some delays with it.  I have gone about 3 weeks without coding it and now have to remember what I was doing .  The reasons behind me not working on it are pretty simple really, it's the end of term so there are tests and assignments galore, Jay_Jay broke his arm () and I need some time just to relax in between it all.  At least I have a week off but at least half of that is going to be taken up with drinking and recovering .  I'll let you all know when it is getting closer.

Oh and Jay_Jay has been working on his script instead of helping me with this (and he has been asking for help).  There is also another script that I am planning on doing to when I get the time, but if you really want this I guess I can work on the other later.

i am happy at present with gradient 3.00, yes the prposed new features for 3.1 sound great and id like to get my hands on them but i appreciate we have to wait and if this other script you want to work on markee is going to be useful then i say work on that first after all gradient is a well established script now and is powerful enough and fully featured enough to satisfy most people for the time being. ultimately how you and jay jay manager your time is up to you, and we all look forward to the next version of gradients and whatever other scripts you care to develope for us.

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i am happy at present with gradient 3.00, yes the prposed new features for 3.1 sound great and id like to get my hands on them but i appreciate we have to wait and if this other script you want to work on markee is going to be useful then i say work on that first after all gradient is a well established script now and is powerful enough and fully featured enough to satisfy most people for the time being. ultimately how you and jay jay manager your time is up to you, and we all look forward to the next version of gradients and whatever other scripts you care to develope for us.

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i am happy at present with gradient 3.00, yes the prposed new features for 3.1 sound great and id like to get my hands on them but i appreciate we have to wait and if this other script you want to work on markee is going to be useful then i say work on that first after all gradient is a well established script now and is powerful enough and fully featured enough to satisfy most people for the time being. ultimately how you and jay jay manager your time is up to you, and we all look forward to the next version of gradients and whatever other scripts you care to develope for us.

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yea well we are going on holidays and the script we are going to make (or just markee but me doing the uis ) is going to be mad and atm i am currently wotking on i think 5 script so i am kind of busy because i want time to relax too but when the new greadient comes out i think everyone will love it and wont stop thanking us

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these other 5 scripts will be that you guys are working on.

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ok i have a few more ideas for features in gradient script.

could we maybe add to the nickname gradiater an option where you can set gradients for the says tag which affects the online status and nudges notifications? (only possible with IRC gradient codes, but the nickname before this irc code block can be bbcode)

another option i was thinking of is also to do with the nickname gradiater, an option that once you have designed your nickname in the gradiater that if nickchange script was also installed you would from within nickname gradiater simply click the "add to nickname list" button (if nickchange not installed would be greyed out) and it would add the nickname to the text file that holds the nicknames used in nickchange.

i know that the nickchange link will be a bit hard to do and would require some collabaration with the creaters of that script but i would hope these suggestions are doable, please let me know what you think.

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ok i have a few more ideas for features in gradient script.

could we maybe add to the nickname gradiater an option where you can set gradients for the says tag which affects the online status and nudges notifications? (only possible with IRC gradient codes, but the nickname before this irc code block can be bbcode)

another option i was thinking of is also to do with the nickname gradiater, an option that once you have designed your nickname in the gradiater that if nickchange script was also installed you would from within nickname gradiater simply click the "add to nickname list" button (if nickchange not installed would be greyed out) and it would add the nickname to the text file that holds the nicknames used in nickchange.

i know that the nickchange link will be a bit hard to do and would require some collabaration with the creaters of that script but i would hope these suggestions are doable, please let me know what you think.

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sounds good markee can't wait to see what you have got in store.

ive installed your script but it says script installed but failed to start. how do i get it to work?

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ive installed your script but it says script installed but failed to start. how do i get it to work?

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yes i have

what version of MP!L and WLM are yo using??

also are you using version 3 of gradient??

Have you tried removing the script and reinstalling (possibly even downloading again).  There might have been a slight problem with either the download or the install and something didn't go right.  If this doesn't work can you add me to WLM and I will try and help you out some more there.  The reason for my thinking that it is something wrong with the download/install is that you are the first person to tell me there was something wrong.  I hope we can fix this up quickly.

EDIT: My email is mark [dot] kernke [at] gmail [dot] com if you run into troubles

Error: the destination directory for the script couldnt be created

what do i do?

Create a script directory called Gradient
C>>prgram files>>messenegr plus live>>scripts then create the folder in there

ok do you have other scripts for MP!L??

if yes i dont know what it is :/

if no the please check that you have the scripts folder where you installed MP!L (C:\Program Files\Messenger Plus! Live\)

I'm finally finished with my coding or Message Customizer! Live (it is the new name for Gradient).  The main new feature is the groups and language support, there was going to be more but because of a lack of time management we had to cut them out (look for them later on however).

There is also an automatic updater now.  For those of you who use gradient before hand, when installing please keep Gradient and then remove it after the installation so as it can convert all your previous settings and then once Gradient is removed there shouldn't be any conflicts.

We are also working on a website for Message Customizer! Live as it appears to be very like by you all (>450 downloads of version 3 in the english version alone).  I hope you go visit the website from time to time.

Lastly, there is only a choice of English as a language at the moment (NanaFreak was a little slow making the windows).  If you find any bugs also report them back and and more features that you would like, I would be happy to try and do for you.

ITS FINALY FINISHED THANKS MARKEE THATS NANA TRUE LEGENDS!!!!!

Spanish translation

please dont post translations without asking before.

thanks but we already have translators

ok we have a problem, i have run the new version selected the bbcode group added people to the group and the save, apply and cancel buttons do not function so my settings cannot be locked in, therefore this new version is totally useless.

yeh i found the same problem there still working on it theres still a few bugs be patient

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ok we have a problem, i have run the new version selected the bbcode group added people to the group and the save, apply and cancel buttons do not function so my settings cannot be locked in, therefore this new version is totally useless.

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yeh i found the same problem there still working on it theres still a few bugs be patient

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Excellent NanaFreak and Markee, good work as usual!

v1.00.01 the only version thats been released so far.

remove the one your currenly using and download it again Nanafreak and Markee have fixed that bug

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remove the one your currenly using and download it again Nanafreak and Markee have fixed that bug

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hey Nana its been put back to v1.00.01 i just downloaded it again to make sure try downloading it and check

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hey Nana its been put back to v1.00.01 i just downloaded it again to make sure try downloading it and check

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hey Nana its been put back to v1.00.01 i just downloaded it again to make sure try downloading it and check

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All clear it was the cache

I'm glad you all like it and that it is working well now.  I didn't have time to test the save feature I'm sorry and I fixed it up in between getting ready for some guests coming over, I'm sorry for the trouble I put you through (there still might be a problem with the remove group but I'll fix that too before submitting to the comp).  I'm sorry for the troubles I put you guys through, those of which that downloaded it in the beginning.

I think the main benefit that might even get me using this script is the fact that I can differentiate who I'm talking to just by looking at the colour/format of the text being used.  I hope you all fin the groups feature very useful, it took a bit to do and to get right (I can see why Patchou hasn't made his own groups features to coexist with the WLM ones).

very nice markee and nanafreak!!! i love this script!!! i hope it wins the contest!!

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very nice markee and nanafreak!!! i love this script!!! i hope it wins the contest!!

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very nice markee and nanafreak!!! i love this script!!! i hope it wins the contest!!

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i think it will because of it being fully customizable!! [/rant]

also once we fix a few more bugs that we didnt test we will submit to the DB and hope for the best

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i have just downloaded the version from first post, i will put it on my flash drive and as soon as i get home tonight ill run the new version and see if i can see anymore problems. thanks guys for your help, and btw this is an awesome script i too want this script to win and get added to the plus live installer.

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i have just downloaded the version from first post, i will put it on my flash drive and as soon as i get home tonight ill run the new version and see if i can see anymore problems. thanks guys for your help, and btw this is an awesome script i too want this script to win and get added to the plus live installer.

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thanks nanafreak its always nice to hear that my ideas are appreciated. something special hey well i am sure whatever you mean by that would be awesome so if you do do that something special then i will of course be very honoured. anyways good luck and keep up the good work.

nice work Nana and Markee  i really do hope use both win im just about to download the latest update hopefully it should be good if theres any bugs ill let use know right away GOOD LUCK!!!

Glad to see it's release. Well done guys. I'm realy likeing the windows !!

I'm loved the script... BUT I found a bug...
In the contacts selected to make the text gradient, when you select a emoticom and press enter, the emoticom doesn't appear... it's like...

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Markee, Nanafreak the bug still remains i canot put any emotions at all  can this be fixed?? if not its orite the script is still good and working

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Markee, Nanafreak the bug still remains i canot put any emotions at all can this be fixed?? if not its orite the script is still good and working

I really cannot see what is doing this.  Add me to WLM and I'll try to sort it out, but honestly I cannot see how the script can be effecting it (unless the emoticon starts with / and you put it in the first position in your message).

My email: mark[dot]kernke[at]gmail[dot]com

For me, the default emoticoms don't appear too if I make the described process..

Anyway.. added on WLM...

try writing the emotions instead of clicking  on the emotion box in the chat bar thanks Markee i had the same problem but fixed now

Ok I've worked out the problem.  It is a bug with MP!L getting the emoticons.  To overcome this problem until Patchou updates Plus! with this bug fixed the following is the only possibilities of working around it.

The problem is using emoticons by selecting on them from the default WLM  emoticon panel.  You can either replace this with the Plus! emoticon panel (Preferences > Conversations > Quick Icons > Replace Messenger's emoticon panel with the Quick Ions panel) or by using the quick icon panel using the ( an waiting for it to pop up (assuming you have this feature enabled) or finally by typing the shortcut.

I hope this helps those of you having problems.

Hey, I have a request... well, Message Customizer seems to have problems with StuffPlug commands, so it would be good to have back the old /gradoff command....

This is due to it only using plus commands.  Once Stuff plug is official I will write an update with an exception to those commands, but until that time I don't really want to do that because StuffPlug's commands can change or more be added and I don't want to have be adding more and more to the code and having to give out another update for every new command in StuffPlug.  I'm sorry but you will find that a lot of people don't like to do this with BETA software either for similar reasons.  Also the /gradoff command is not easy to implement anymore due to the way that I have made the groups, sorry.  I got rid of a lot of commands for the same reason.  I think you should be able to prefix your message with /text and it should work with the StuffPlug commands however, if you could report back on that it would be nice.

Ok, I'll try it out. thank you 4 the help

i just want to ask, if i use this script and gradient my msgs to a contact that doesn't use msgplus or wlm, how would the msg turn out? will it be just what i typed, eg "Hello", or with codes, eg "#12H34e45l56l78o"

thanks in advance

it will have the codes. if you typed "hello" with red to green text it will be like "[c=#ff0000]hello[/c=#00ff00]" for bbcode and a lot messier for the IRC style text.

so i think you should ask your contact before making the contact into a group with the script

note: this script does not do it for all contacts

i hope this helps you...

thanks alot, exactly what i wanted to know.
but is it possible to have contacts not using wlm at this stage anyway?
coz microsoft forces you to update or other wise unable to sign in.

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thanks alot, exactly what i wanted to know.
but is it possible to have contacts not using wlm at this stage anyway?
coz microsoft forces you to update or other wise unable to sign in.

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what about the format codes wlm provides you with for the nicknames? will 7.5 users see it in color? or codes...?

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what about the format codes wlm provides you with for the nicknames? will 7.5 users see it in color? or codes...?

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certainly has, thx for the helps.

Hi, nice work on the script there!
It works fine for me but I gave this script to a friend of mine and she has problems with it
it says “undefined” 3 times instead of Options - Help - About
Is it because her computer software are in french?
Thx again

This is the first time I have come across this problem.  This will probably have something to do with the languages things I have put it.  I have updated this slightly for the next release though I don't think it will help this problem very much.  Would it be possible if you could send a copy of the debugger to my email address ( mark [dot] kernke [at] gmail [dot] com ).  To bring up the debugger you will need to firstly go into the plus preferences > General > Scripts > check the box "Enable debugging options (for script developers only".  This will bring up a new window and it is the log in there for Message Customizer! Live that I would like (you might need to restart the script or messenger to get me all the information I would like (and then make sure you sign in and try the menus).  That information should be enough for me to understand what happened.

One thought of mine for the reasoning behind this is because your friend might not have selected a language option on the first start-up and there will be a problem whenever it tries to get information about the selected language.  To fix this you must first uninstall the script and then re-install it and select a language when prompted and press ok to it.  Without this their will be problems in the current build, I will fix this up for th next release however (hopefully).

Thank you for reporting the problem .

Also, I think there's another problem with languages, as everytime I logout it loses the previous selections & returns back to english

I haven't had much of a chance to have a close look at the languages features, I have been waiting on NanaFreak to just get all the text areas correct first before I did anything and we have also been waiting on some translators getting back to us with the .ini files.  I plan to have a new build out soon with some minor changes and multiple languages but before that I will definitely look further into this and try to sort the problem out.

oh, well, that's not a big problem... I still can live with english... take your time

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Hi, nice work on the script there!
It works fine for me but I gave this script to a friend of mine and she has problems with it
it says “undefined” 3 times instead of Options - Help - About
Is it because her computer software are in french?
Thx again

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fanx. a lyk this on beta. the ova still wrked on myn even if it wuz discontinued. fanx tho this is awsome gt any more reli gd scripts? :L

luff ya all xx vicky xx

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fanx. a lyk this on beta. the ova still wrked on myn even if it wuz discontinued. fanx tho this is awsome gt any more reli gd scripts? :L

luff ya all xx vicky xx

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is there anyway of picking your own font when using this.

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is there anyway of picking your own font when using this.

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when will you be making a version 8.5 compatable copy of this script?

It should be compatible right now, I can't see a reason for it not to work....  We'll test it out later but there shouldnt be any reason why it won't work with any version of messenger as long as you have messenger plus live.

(oh and i have to add the I'm and bunny emoticons)

well it kinda works but you cannot turn it off on a per contact basis like you used to be able to do, any attempt to do so will result in the script freezing, so either everyone on your contact list has to received gradiented text and suffer if they dont have plus or you have to turn the whole script off theres no inbetween on wlm 8.5

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well it kinda works but you cannot turn it off on a per contact basis like you used to be able to do, any attempt to do so will result in the script freezing, so either everyone on your contact list has to received gradiented text and suffer if they dont have plus or you have to turn the whole script off theres no inbetween on wlm 8.5

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I can't get the color picker popped out when I clicked on any of them....

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a new version would be great, i cant wait.

* Orgrim Doomhammer warms up his fingers to translate the new version...

Thanks guys for all of your interest but I don't know how long it will take for this minor update.  We really need to work on web2live and get that working, and my laptop is in getting fixed (again) so we're having to share the one computer.  We'll see what happens, no promises on dates but we do realise that we need to make some adjustments.

hi am also waiting for the update to use this script with 8.5 beta

and by the way i know there's lots of arabs whom interested in this script so if you need any help with translating it to Arabic i'll be honored

u can email me at
faisal.a.k@hotmail.com

the current version works fine with 8.5beta... i dont know what the other guy was on about...

It glitches in 4.50/9.0; The window appears but disappears. A restart of messenger sometimes works but doesnt all the time.

9.0 is beta. the script will not be updated to work with it until 9.0 has been released

u should add a button to add all contact to the list so ppl dont have to waste time doin one by one or something to so ya

I re formatted my PC, and now this does not work...

I click the options button and nothing happens

I tried reinstalling, but it didn't work

debug when I click the Options menu:

Função: OnGetScriptMenu
Função: OnEvent_MenuClicked

If it helps:
Messenger Plus Live! v 4.82.386
WLM 14.0.8089.726

I am currently using:

Windows 7 Ultimate x64 (6.1.7100)
Windows Live Messenger 14.0.0726
Messenger Plus! Live 4.82.0.368

And it works 100% (though there is small errors with the graphics of the window)...

What version of Windows are you using..?

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I am currently using:

Windows 7 Ultimate x64 (6.1.7100)
Windows Live Messenger 14.0.0726
Messenger Plus! Live 4.82.0.368

And it works 100% (though there is small errors with the graphics of the window)...

What version of Windows are you using..?

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