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Originally posted by lordy16 here
Window Open/closed Notifiers
OK, because of all the people DEMANDING that the Window Open (WON) and Close (WCN) notifiers be kept in StuffPlug, I've decided to make this thread (despite the fact that this information IS already on the forum, people have also been demanding we post it here).

Reason for WON being removed

When MSN Messenger 7.5 came along with contact cards and the ability to see your contact's display pictures in your contact list, Microsoft changed the MSN Messenger protocol to accomodate these new features.

They made it so that a connection is made between each person's computer when someone downloaded a person's display picture so it could be viewed in the contact window or when the person's contact card was clicked.

This connection was causing StuffPlug to give false alerts of a person opening your conversation window.

There is no way for stuffplug to determine a genuine conversation window opening connection and one merely downloading a person's display pic off their computer.

This is not something that can be worked around.

Reason for WCN being removed

Once again, when 7.5 came around with the new MSN Messenger Protocol, the WCN was rendered useless.

When a conversation window has been idle for a certain length of time, MSN Messenger closes the connection between the two computers. This gives stuffplug a false indication that the conversation window has been closed.

Once again, possible solutions to the problem have been looked at, and none have worked.


I hope this post keeps people happy, now you've got the detailed explaination you were after.

Please note that these features will NOT be coming back, so don't post in here asking for them to be, or the post WILL be deleted
Posted by lordy16 on July 2, 2006

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I know this isn't Cookie's reply but I couldn't be bothered looking it up and I personally found this to be quite informative and of use anyway. Btw the reason why i was 'sucking up' to Cookie was because of his history in these forums and how he has helped others (something which you don't hve as yet and currently are far from showing)