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I need someone to try to explain something to me plz. What is the point of the detailed contact list? I mean you can see the nick and the PSM in diferent lines but that's about it. Since it is detailed contac list shouldn't it show some of the information you edit in the contacts info like address or any other thing you edit in the contact? Ok the contact card shows those things, but I can acess the contact card in the normal contact list so I'm really missing the point of the detailed list. Can someone tell me what it is for besides showing the nick and the psm in diferent lines and showing DP by the contact?

Erm, that's kinda what it's for. You've inadvertently answered your own question

Normal - Doesn't show e-mail address, personal message on same line, small display picture.
Detailed - Shows e-mail address, personal message on it's own line, big display picture.

That's the differences.

Ah ok. That doesn't make sense to me. I mean it's a waste of programing time but ok. It would be cool if someone could make a script that showed the contact information on the detailed contact list. Turning it to a real detailed list.

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Originally posted by Zeh
Ah ok. That doesn't make sense to me. I mean it's a waste of programing time but ok.

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Some people want it (those with small contact lists for example; they aren't all MSN junkies like us )

PS: and it is a bit more detailed than the normal list, so hence "detailed list"...

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Originally posted by Zeh
It would be cool if someone could make a script that showed the contact information on the detailed contact list. Turning it to a real detailed list.

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Can't be done with a script.

Yeah after I posted It I started thinking and reached the conclusion that it couldn't be done in a script. It would have to be a patch of some sort. And most of the people here are only scripters I doubt I'll find anyone that can do a patch like that, although it would be very cool...

Patching can be done with scripts (pretty easy actually, see some of my scripts). The thing is that what you suggested requires the resources to be patched (at the least!). And it would even only be possible if messenger already provides the information you want as elements of the resources (which I somehow very strongly doubt). Remember, you can not add stuff which is not already available.

Another problem with resources is that they are only loaded once. Making messenger load them again is far from easy (and I even don't know if possible at all, dunno).

Then you have also the problem that what you suggested requires the resources to be patched in such a way that the patched version will be way bigger than the original one. Which in its turn also requires that the resources are totally recompiled first.

And is it a bad thing to only be loaded once in this case?

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Originally posted by Zeh
And is it a bad thing to only be loaded once in this case?

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If they are only loaded once, how are you going to tell messenger something has changed? You can patch all you want, if messenger doesn't reread them, it wont even know about the "new" stuff.

This is exactly the same as downloading a file... If you downloaded a file and after that the website has updated the file, you will still be using that same old file. The website can update its files all it wants, the file you use isn't going to change.

(and no, as of yet, nobody has ever succeeded to tell messenger to reload its resources )

But it would reload each time you closed and reopened messenger right?