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Originally posted by Zerosan
How about a system where you give someone a priority, if the focus is on someone with a high priority the tab wont switch automatically.
tbh, that would even be more confusing, chaotic and annoying.
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To show what could be possible, here is a script which does (almost) what is requested.
However, as you will notice there are some consequences with it. And those consequences (or similar ones) will also happen when something like this is included directly in Plus!...
If you test this out in more detail you'll notice that it is far from easy and strait forward to make it behave as you exactly want (the people here in this thread actually requested many slithly different things to start with anyways!).
Hence why Plus! uses the current method it uses and why there are (known) limitations.
eg: When you minimize a tabbed chat window as long as you didn't read all new messages, the taskbar button might still be flashing and the caption will not indicate the person who sent the new message.
When a new message is recieved from a contact you already speaking to, but another tab is active, the taskbar button will also change caption.
Since the caption will change when someone sends you a new message and he/she is not the active tab, the caption might create confusion when you are not busy with chatting or when you are navigating the taskbar buttons.
etc... etc...
It might seem it works perfectly at first sight, but if you test this closer you will see that there are many pitfalls for implementing something like this.
Updated to version 2.0 - POC (added compatibility with WLM 8.5)
Note that this is a POC script ("Proof Of Concept"). This means it isn't fully featured and should be used with care. It wont be updated with new features or whatever and is only provided to roughly show what could be done.
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