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Originally posted by namooth
what's redundant about it? The feature is there in the original WLM so i'm guessing most people like to know if the people they talk to are writing a msg. MsgPlus is about making life easier from what i understand and the feature above does just that.
it can show "mike, Dana is writing a msg.."

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it's redundant in that it serves no real purpose.  letting you know that a user is typing is very misleading....it's not reliable for starters (i've started typing many times in the wrong box, or started typing a question and realised i knew the answer)

if you're really picky enough to want to see the notifications then just keep your chat window maximised....you could only see it for one contact at a time anyway (using tabs)

it's not a useful feature that adds functionality to messenger and therefore i'm pretty sure it won't be added to plus

heh, its very possible, I made a script to do this a while ago (though its not release quality ), I find it quite handy =p

Sweet!
any chance you can let us try it?

i think it will make the PC So Slow

but its a good idea after all

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Originally posted by kabso 5
i think it will make the PC So Slow

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How will it? It's using the very same APIs that set the Taskbar captions anyway... You don't get lag when you download in IE and it updates the percentage in the taskbar do you?

I don't quite understand why this would be wanted? it's a pretty dodgy thing anyway, as has been said above, and when your talking to multiple people at the same time usig tabs... it would get quite confusing.

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Originally posted by Spunky

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Originally posted by kabso 5
i think it will make the PC So Slow

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How will it? It's using the very same APIs that set the Taskbar captions anyway... You don't get lag when you download in IE and it updates the percentage in the taskbar do you?

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in the taskbar there is an icon of the messenger for every convo right ?

i remember in stuff plug

that icon is changed to Busy or Away or Online icon 

if the one you are talking to is away  in the task manger  the icon of the convo will be away

and it makes the pc so slow

some time it wont change the status in the task manger only if we closed the convo and re open it 

i guess for every time the contact you are talking with,, talk so much it will be a disaster

for every single message it will showed in the task manger for every contact is takling to me,, OMG

because i talk to over 8 Persons

thats why i think the Pc will go so slow, you know what i mean ?

This actually would be quite helpful, and Dane's suggestion of separation through a semi colon is quite good for if you just hover over the button in the task bar it will show them all in a tool tip.  The only suggestion i would have for use with tabbed chats is to also include a number of people writing at the beginning so that you can easily see that there is more than 1.

-dt- would you be able to share some of your code so that we don't have to start from scratch with making this (yes, I have become almost as lazy as WDZ )

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Originally posted by kabso 5
thats why i think the Pc will go so slow, you know what i mean ?

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If I think it's slow, I'll give you £100. That's how confident I am that it'll work fine...

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Originally posted by kabso 5
in the taskbar there is an icon of the messenger for every convo right ?

i remember in stuff plug

that icon is changed to Busy or Away or Online icon 

if the one you are talking to is away  in the task manger  the icon of the convo will be away

and it makes the pc so slow

some time it wont change the status in the task manger only if we closed the convo and re open it 

i guess for every time the contact you are talking with,, talk so much it will be a disaster

for every single message it will showed in the task manger for every contact is takling to me,, OMG

because i talk to over 8 Persons

thats why i think the Pc will go so slow, you know what i mean ?

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Never went slow and I used this same feature. Your PC was slow because you had 8 conversations, not because of damn icon-changing. And it's like the other guy said, your PC doesn't slow down when you are downloading with IE even though it changes the taskbar title everytime to update the percentage.

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Originally posted by - dt-
heh, its very possible, I made a script to do this a while ago (though its not release quality (Smilie)), I find it quite handy =p

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Post it unofficially here