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Originally posted by Ezra
1. A-Patch is a Hard-Patch and Hard-Patches are illegal, but a Soft-Patch is not. So if you make A-Patch a plugin, It would be 100% legal 
Not exactly. Hard-patches are indeed mostly illegal, but so are soft-patches. Only the are less illegal... If illegal would be black and legal white, then soft-patches are grey
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Originally posted by Ezra
2. Did you ever remove a option, and you reget it later, so you have to install msn again, and patch it again, but you forget what options you used and you have to do it a couple of times just to remove one thing? With a Soft-Patch you could remove it, restart messenger and voila, it's done...
You don't need nessecairly a soft-patch for it though. A well programmed hard-patch can do it just as well.
Iether way, when patching resources, and that is mostly what A-patch does, you can't simple turn it on/off "on-the-fly" like some preferences in a program. Resources need to be changed before they are loaded by the program. After that you can change it all you want it wont make a difference. In other words, most things A-Patch (and other patches like that) does can't be turned on/off without restarting MSN Messenger...
And that is exactly what
Ahmad's loader does. It _is_ a soft-patch, but to change something you need to restart MSN Messenger again of course, it can't be done "on-the-fly".
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Originally posted by Ezra
I'm sure you are thinking this is hard to do, sure. But I'm positive that if Ahmz055 works together with some of the Plugin Developers here, that you can make it work.
It's very easy to do actually (the loader that is)
To make it into a plugin and turn options on/off on the fly is impossible because of the above reasons.
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