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is it possible to count from a date with this plug in?

soon it will, I'm currently adding stuff which makes that possible (and more).

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Originally posted by CookieRevised
soon it will, I'm currently adding stuff which makes that possible (and more).

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oh cool thanks! It's a really great counter

How often does it update the name? Because I only want to use days in my counter and I don't want it changing my name every hour or whatever for no reason.

I think the update interval is 6 seconds!

If you only want to use Days then you can use a tag like this:

Only ( d ) (wd) to my birthday! -> ( d ) without spaces


Greeeeeeez Tobiaz

The interval in the latest beta was 30 seconds (not much use to make it lower; other than flooding your contacts). But I'll include an option or something where you can set the interval higher in the next update. (although if the nick hasn't changed the nick will not be updated either though)

6 seconds is really pushing the limit btw (of the MSN servers). It should never be used in any nickname-update-plugin IMO

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Originally posted by Tobiaz
Only ( d ) (wd) to my birthday! -> ( d ) without spaces

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unfortunatly I'm forced to to change the associated words variables like (wd), (ws), (wm), etc to something else, as I'm going to include also the 'week' interval (which is always exactly 7 days).

This means that for displaying the number of weeks with a leading zero I'll be using (ww) in analogy to the other variables with leading zeros like (dd), (ss), etc... But this means that the associated word for weeks (ww) would be the same variable as for the number of weeks with leading zero: (ww). Thus I'm going to change the variable name of associated words...

Dunno yet what it will become, maybe (~w), (~d), (~s), etc. Or maybe (aw), (ad), (as) (as the letter 'a' is easier to type then a tilde)... If you have any suggestions, feel free to post them. Although I wish to keep them compliant with existing variable names used in other languages and definitions though... dunno yet...

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Important Update: Since there was no feedback on this, I've decided that the tags used for the associated words will be prefixed with "%" instead. So you will get (%w), (%d), (%s), etc in the new release (RC1).

eg1: (%w) will be replaced with "weeks" (or "week" depending on the value of (w))
eg2: (%d) will be replaced with "days" (or "day" depending on the value of (d))

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Originally posted by Tobiaz
I think the update interval is 6 seconds!

If you only want to use Days then you can use a tag like this:

Only ( d ) (wd) to my birthday! -> ( d ) without spaces


Greeeeeeez Tobiaz

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If it is 6 or 30 like cookie said then does it change the name that often or only if it is different?

It does make the call to MSN Messenger to change (as you might have changed the name yourself during the interval), but since the name will be the same, the actuall change will not be made and thus your contacts will also not be notified of any 'nick change'.

For some reason it just started doing what's in the pic for me all my 'tag' is this

(d) (wd) till I'm 21


I possible could be the MSN servers tho.

Yes, I noticed that too...

And it is indeed not because of a bug in the plugin, but has to do with stuff beyond the plugin (it simply calls the Messenger Plus! nickchange API). For some reason the servers decline nick changes after a while (more strict flood protection??). Or it can be some bug in Messenger Plus! in how it changes the nickname, although that would be surprising IMHO.

If you can pinpoint more when this happens it would be great (which status, after what precise time, etc...). Note that it doesn't matter what nick you have nor what tags you use, that's only important internally for the plugin, it hasn't any influence on the actual changing of the nick.