Shoutbox

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

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Really??

Referring to your post about tabs in msn v6.1.0207 http://shoutbox.menthix.net/showthread.php?tid=18599&page=1

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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.

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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It's not yet know when its ready.. It seems like Plus! does not always load plug-in in time, so sometimes you have no tabs and no games at all

As far as I know, this is something that plug-in itself can't influence, its Plus! that loads it in time or not... However, like 70% ~ 80% it's being loaded in time

The Blasphemer is now working on MSN Messenger plug-in that will do the same, but he said its a bit more work than Plus!-plugin

So... lets just wait untill its here

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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or for ppl u made there own and dont really have a place to host the image

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