Shoutbox

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Originally posted by Islander
I'm not sure if I understand it (ok, I don't). The contacts are hidden, and when you move the mouse to the position it is supposed to be, it appears for 1 second or so?

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It's the other way round...

-desktop contacts are visible always
-if you middleclick on a desktop contact, it hides itself

thats the way Patchou wants to implement it.

This way you have two advatages:
1. you can have desktop contacts always-on-top and never miss a message from a particular person (when being in tabbed mode you don’t know from which user the last message came until you click the tabbed conversation window, for example)
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2. they wont lock the access to the screen areas they occupy, because they are hideable by one single middleclick

Hopefully this was understandable...

Ok, now it's more understandable. I guess I don't see the personal use since I only have a few dozen of contacts at all and only 4 floating contacts, which I use to simply see if they are on or not (no tabbed chats needed for my 1 or 2 convos). I assume if you got many chats and many contacts it can be useful.

But there is another thing that comes to my mind... how do you get a floating contact bach once you hide it? I mean, without having to restart MSN. Or would it reappear as soon as that person disconnects (or reconnects) ?

Or is it even the other way around, that, when you click on a floating contact, the tabbed chat for that contact opens, the floating contact hides, and then appears again once there is a new message from that contact ?

What for those who don't have a middle click?

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Originally posted by ForestPlus!
What for those who don't have a middle click?

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its left and right pressed at the same time thats is middle click
hope it helps
nice feature

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Originally posted by ForestPlus!
What for those who don't have a middle click?

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tried it, does nothing

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Originally posted by ForestPlus!
What for those who don't have a middle click?

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indeed (and indeed not all mice or drivers take left+right click as a middle click)...

I like this feature a lot. But can't it be implement a little bit different? Like more like other desktop software does it: To have the click-thru effect you need to hold CTRL (or ALT or whatever) and click the left mouse button (or right button, or middle button).

In that way:
- you have all(!) buttons available to click.
- you only need 1 click (not two) to perform the action on the underlying window.
- is more in canon with many other desktop software.

(and when pressing the hotkey while your mouse is over a desktop contact (like CTRL or ALT), the contact can still be made to dissapear for convenience.)

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Originally posted by MX-G

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Originally posted by vaccination

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Originally posted by John Anderton

Nice

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I like the feature also, Good job

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x2

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x3  Great animation, unique and original way to ask about implenting a feature.

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Originally posted by ForestPlus!
What for those who don't have a middle click?

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too bad

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Originally posted by Patchou
too bad

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* ayjay goes to buy a cheap 3-button mouse

It's great idea !!! Thanks!!!!!