Shoutbox

First of all, thank you for this wonderful tool ! It think Messenger Plus! really brings a lot of interesting missing features in MSN Messenger. However, I'd like to propose some enhancements that could be done to make this tool even more wonderful. I don't know if this forum is the best place to suggest enhancements to Messenger Plus! but I didn't find another place to do it... (Maybe it could be interesting to have a "enhancements suggestions" topic in the forums ?)

1) About importing/Exporting my contact list: there a "Export/Import my contact list" option in the "Contacts" menu of MSN Messenger. This is an interesting option, however it only saves and restore the emails of your contacts. Therefore, your contact groups are not saved/restored and your contacts are not restored in the contact group where you had put them. Moreover, the information about Blocked contacts is not saved. All contacts are saved, including blocked contacts, and restore as not blocked. My enhancement proposal is the following: could it be possible to have a more complete "Export/import my contacts" function in Messenger Plus, exporting/importing in a text file not only the mail but also : the blocked/not blocked status, the contact group in which the contact is located, the name given to the contact (when using the personalized names), and the alerts settings defined for this contact ? Maybe it would be fine to use the same format as the standard import/export function from MSN Messenger (an XML file with extention .ctt) by inserting these extra-informations in XML comments, so that the same Contact-list file is compatible both with MSN Messenger import function and Messenger Plus import function, allowing people to share their .ctt files...

2) About using the individual alerts settings for each contact (disconnection, nickname changed, status changed, and connection): i find this function very interresting and I'm using it very often. However, i found it very difficult and exhausting to have to define individually the settings for each one of your contacts, one by one, by a left clic, then "actions alerts" option in the contextual menu displayed, then click on the settings, then ok, bla bla bla... repeated for about 100 contacts... It would be nice to have in the alerts section of the settings window a table with one row for each contact and one column for each alert type (disconnection, nickname changed, status changed, and connection) enabling the user to quickly see all the settings of all the contacts and to change some settings. Including the possibility to select several contacts at the same time with the CTRL key down and to change the value (for one alert event) for all these contacts at once.

Thank you for your reading... And sorry for the mispellings...

Keep going on !!!