Shoutbox

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Originally posted by Aardvark
In Plus! 3 when you locked messenger, the icon DID CHANGE to the network drive icon. I swear it did because I remember changing it to another icon and not knowing how to change it back again . That was done using MSN 7.5.

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Then I'm afraid you remembered wrong

As I said before, it is the "Boss Protection" feature which could change the icon, not the "Lock Messenger" feature. Both features could be activated with a shortcut though, and both will 'hide' the Messenger windows. But only one will change the system tray icon, which is the Boss Protection feature.

The default shortcut for the Boss Protection feature is CTRL+SPACE. The Messenger Lock feature didn't had a shortcut assigned and isn't enabled by default.

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Originally posted by Aardvark
Now I run Plus! 3 on Windows Messenger 5 alongside Plus! 4 with WLM 8.5. Plus! 4 is set up so that when Ctrl+Space is pressed, it locks, and the icon changes.

When I go through the setup wizard on Plus! 3 in Windows Messenger, it says the default combination for locking Plus! is None - but it didn't say None before when I was using MSN 7.5 with Plus! 3.

So firstly - why does it say None

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Such shortcuts are system-wide. This means they will always work, no matter in what application in Windows you're busy with.

But in order to make it so, the shortcuts must be registered to Windows. And you can only assign one application/action to one shortcut. So this means that you can not have two applications (eg: Plus!3 and Plus!4) reacting on the same shortcut. Either one of them should unregister the shortcut in favor of the other.

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Originally posted by Aardvark
If I try and change it to Ctrl+Space - so that if I press Ctrl+Space both Windows Messenger AND WLM will lock at the same time - it won't let me.

So secondly, why won't it let me?

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Same reason as above. You can only assign one application to a system-wide shortcut.

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Originally posted by Aardvark
And thirdly, going back to my original paragraph, when I'm using Windows Messenger and lock it, using /lock, since I haven't setup another key combination, things hide but the icon in the system tray doesn't change.

DOES THIS MEAN that /lock has a different effect to using a key combination, in Plus! 3? or what?

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No, it acts in the exact same way.

The command /lock will execute the "Messenger Lock" feature. This feature will not change the systemtray icon. As said before, it is the "Boss Protection" feature which changes the icon. There is no command to activate the Boss Protection.