Shoutbox

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Originally posted by Spunky

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Originally posted by Moh Zayadi
Hmm, it seems that you are not the only one who is having that problem. I noticed when I add a nickname to a any contact whether they are on mobile or not, their name in the tab stays the same as their original nickname but not blank.

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Plus! has no access to WLMs nicknames. This is the reason it doesn't change the tab and in my opinion, this means Plus! has never been able to update the tab with a phone number, as I  believe it the name would be their normal WLM display name.

Put simply,  Plus! does not display phone numbers or nicknames. It only displays their current DISPLAY NAME.

Just tested on my WLM 14 and MP!L 4.80 (WinXP Pro SP3)

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It did prior to the 4.8 update, I am absolutely 100% certain of this.  At least, it did for mobile contacts.  I saw it every day since I installed Plus! in August - and up until this last update - it was right there.

I spend more time talking to my friend using the mobile chat than I do using MSN for normal chat, so I noticed the blank tab as soon as it did this.  It definitely had the name I gave the friend with the mobile, and (I'm 99% sure) the mobile icon was there as well.

My Vista computer forced me to update Plus!, and this was the first I noticed the issue - meanwhile, my PC was still on the previous build (no forced update), which included the mobile icon and name.  i figured it was just a glitch on my other computer, but when I updated Plus! on my XP computer, the tab information disappeared right along with it.

If I can find the previous build of Plus!, I can prove that it did .. but you'll just have to take my word for it.  7 months of seeing a name in the tab every day doesn't lie.

That said, I don't recall my nickname for another friend (who is a regular MSN contact, not a mobile-only contact) working the same way - I think the tab always displayed their current name and not the nickname.  The mobile account, though, definitely did - and now it does not.

Edit: Well, I attempted to uninstall 4.8 and reinstall 4.7, but it appears to only want to install/run 4.8. Oh well.  Either way.. whether or not it actually intentionally filled in the mobile contact's name prior to the 4.8 update, I don't know.. but either way, it certainly did. 

Keep in mind, though, this was a mobile only user (as in, there's no MSN contact/profile information for them, only a mobile number) - they have no display name unless you fill one in yourself.  I suspect that's why this worked differently before, but now it's just completely blank.