Shoutbox

When you send an away-message (and the window is not existant before), that window will automaticly take focus.

Quite annoying when you are in a game and your game minimizes.

Focus means it becomes the window on top.

I thought there were some topics about this earlier, search around the forums, FineWolf.

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Originally posted by Ddunk
Focus means it becomes the window on top.

I thought there were some topics about this earlier, search around the forums, FineWolf.

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Nope, first topic. Was not doing this under P!2

Im not sure if this stands as a Bug Report but i can see what you mean.

I think the idea of the away-message is that you are intended as "away" so you wouldn't be expected at your computer (playing a game or whatever)

Either way, maybe someone will have more of an insite into this. But i don't see it as a Bug unless it never used to do this, and im sure it did.

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Originally posted by Sk3tch
Im not sure if this stands as a Bug Report but i can see what you mean.

I think the idea of the away-message is that you are intended as "away" so you wouldn't be expected at your computer (playing a game or whatever)

Either way, maybe someone will have more of an insite into this. But i don't see it as a Bug unless it never used to do this, and im sure it did.

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Well, I used with Messenger Plus! 2 to have a busy message for when I play games. It said something like "I can't use MSN Messenger right now, but you can always contact via phone at: "

Now with Messenger Plus! 3, when I use an auto-message, everytime I receive a new message, the window takes focus, minimizing my game.

It's seems that Patchou just forgot to recode the part where it prevents the window from taking focus.

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Originally posted by Sk3tch
I think the idea of the away-message is that you are intended as "away" so you wouldn't be expected at your computer (playing a game or whatever)

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nah, as FineWolf said, your status can be busy (or a personalised one) and you may want to leave an automessage.

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Originally posted by FineWolf
It's seems that Patchou just forgot to recode the part where it prevents the window from taking focus.

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i don't think so. I remember a bug where in some cases messenger chrashed with dodgy automessages... I've reported it and i think then patchou changed that, and made the window get the focus to avoid such things. However, I'm sure he can do something about this....

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Originally posted by Choli

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Originally posted by FineWolf
It's seems that Patchou just forgot to recode the part where it prevents the window from taking focus.

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i don't think so. I remember a bug where in some cases messenger chrashed with dodgy automessages... I've reported it and i think then patchou changed that, and made the window get the focus to avoid such things. However, I'm sure he can do something about this....

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Maybe like anoption to disable this safety net... or make it take focus only if the error appears once.

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Originally posted by FineWolf
Maybe like anoption to disable this safety net... or make it take focus only if the error appears once.

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i'm not sure if he made the conversation window get the focus in order he can avoid the bug, however, if that's the case, once the error happens it's too late to make the window get the focus (because the window gets the focus so a message box is properly shown modal to that window...)

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Originally posted by Choli

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Originally posted by FineWolf
Maybe like anoption to disable this safety net... or make it take focus only if the error appears once.

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i'm not sure if he made the conversation window get the focus in order he can avoid the bug, however, if that's the case, once the error happens it's too late to make the window get the focus (because the window gets the focus so a message box is properly shown modal to that window...)

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Maybe, but it could set a Registry Value to True (1) when that error happens once, and the next time it happens, the window will take focus.

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Originally posted by FineWolf
Maybe, but it could set a Registry Value to True (1) when that error happens once, and the next time it happens, the window will take focus.

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that's not the behaviour of a professional program, lol. Plus can avoid that bug... it can't say "it won't happen, I'll fix next time" People won't like plus. It's the same as if Windows BSODs once and the next time it does something to not show the blue screen. Also, note that the bug was a serious one. Messenger crashes and closes...


Anyway, I understand you and your problem. I hope Patchou does something to solve that.