Shoutbox

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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The original code for MsgPlus' tab was

code:

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<tab>
<image>http://shoutbox.menthix.net/tab/images/tabbut.png</image>
<name>Msgplus.net Tab</name>
<tooltip>The Official Messenger Plus! Community Tab</tooltip>
<contenturl>http://shoutbox.menthix.net/tab/</contenturl>
<hidden>false</hidden>
</tab>

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so you can get the url from there.

i don't know about the Neowin's one

edit:

btw, it's a very nice project
hope it's released soon

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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The current one I suspect :/

quote:

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

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