Shoutbox

Well yesterday when Englad - Croatia was playing, when one of the teams got a goal some of my contacts, changed their name to "[insert name of team here] got a goal!!!" and they were appearing offline and then online many times.
Because i have both of messenger plus! toasts enabled (offline and name change) when my contacts were appearing offline my screen was flooded with "[insert name of team here] got a goal!!! is now offline.".
And because they were doing this many times (appearing offline and then online) the right part of my screen had many msgplus toasts.
This doesnt happen with the msn toasts...
They stop appearing if the screen is full of them...
So can this be fixed?

Well, that could be fixed but.. what's the point? . In both situations, you dont see the popups anyway.

but the pop-ups are still there and so maybe are taking up CPU resources

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Originally posted by saralk
but the pop-ups are still there and so maybe are taking up CPU resources

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nah, the amount of CPU needed by a pop up is insignificant

Also, if a contact does something at the exact same time as another one, both pop-us go in the same spot, meaning you have to close one to see the one behind it.

I've never had that problem. All mine have been stacked

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Originally posted by king_of_cool_kids
Also, if a contact does something at the exact same time as another one, both pop-us go in the same spot, meaning you have to close one to see the one behind it.

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are you sure about that? That shouldn't happen because

1. It's impossible that 2 contacts do something at the same time. I mean, they may do it at the same time, but messenger would receive the nick changes, status changes, or whatever they've done one after the other (because of the protocol and of how things work in TCP/IP networks), and it (messenger) would notify plus secuencially, first one, then the other, and plus should display the toasts one avobe the other.
   
   
2. there are (or should be) some protections based on semaphores or mutex or whatever to prevent those things happening. When a toast is "reserving" a zone of the screen to be displayed in, that code should be executed in mutual exclusion with itself in other threads.(if you don't understand this 2nd point, don't worry, it's something related to te way plus and messenger are (or should be) coded).

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Originally posted by Choli

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Originally posted by saralk
but the pop-ups are still there and so maybe are taking up CPU resources

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nah, the amount of CPU needed by a pop up is insignificant

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someone ages ago said that he got a cpu slow down when plus made the messenger icon animate after an alert, so i guess anything is possible

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Originally posted by Choli

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Originally posted by king_of_cool_kids
Also, if a contact does something at the exact same time as another one, both pop-us go in the same spot, meaning you have to close one to see the one behind it.

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are you sure about that? That shouldn't happen because

1. It's impossible that 2 contacts do something at the same time. I mean, they may do it at the same time, but messenger would receive the nick changes, status changes, or whatever they've done one after the other (because of the protocol and of how things work in TCP/IP networks), and it (messenger) would notify plus secuencially, first one, then the other, and plus should display the toasts one avobe the other.
   
   
2. there are (or should be) some protections based on semaphores or mutex or whatever to prevent those things happening. When a toast is "reserving" a zone of the screen to be displayed in, that code should be executed in mutual exclusion with itself in other threads.(if you don't understand this 2nd point, don't worry, it's something related to te way plus and messenger are (or should be) coded).

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This is possible...
Happened with me...

Edit: Here's a picture of what can happen with this bug...

Well, it has only happened to me once, and maybe it wasn't because they did it at the same time. I did some exploring, and if you have a whole lot of ie's open, it slows things down a lot. Would this erhaps slow plus down. All I know is that there were two pop-ups, one in front of the other one, and I had to close the one in front to see it.

As for th start of the tread, how about closing the bottom toast, moving all the ones down, then doing the new one at the top??