Shoutbox

Hi there guys!

I have a suggestion for the next release of MSN Plus.

I always have my messenger status on 'away', that way i feel i can disregard some people because their timing is poor or for whatever reason...

but

sometimes the messenger goes offline (or in case of a restart) and then logs me on again, but then my status is 'online' and i get a lot of messages.

It would be very nice to have a standard-status which you can control as you'd like. So if you come online your status will be ie 'away' right away. I would certainly be interested in this kind of enhancements... 

Although this feature is not in Messenger Plus! already, you could use a plug-in to do this already, which could also be seen as enhancement

The idea is to use a plug-in that saves your status when you sign off, and after you sign in again, it quickly changes your status to the one you had. Now, if you would make the file that keeps your status read-only, it would always change your status to a certain status

I attached the plug-in (made by DJMystic) to this post. Now, place the DLL file in your plug-ins folder, most likely C:\Program Files\Messenger Plus! 3\Plugins. Then close and reopen MSN Messenger. Change your status to the one you'd always like (i.e. Away) and sign off. Now, a file named OldStatus.dat should appear in the plug-ins directory.

Right click that file, and make it read-only. Now, if you should sign in to MSN Messenger, it should change your status to Away right away

I thought there's a similar feature in Plus! that supports this..
There's this feature that if you haven't been active for a period of time it changes by it's self to the status you choose.

Prefrences > General Options > Miscellaneous

Well, BluexDreams, you are almost right
The feature present in Plus! allows the user to change their status after a period of inactivity. However, there is an advantage of the way I posted: my way will work right on sign in, not after a period of time.

I agree though, that, seeing as he/she would like to always have his/her status set to Away, a combination of both the plug-in and that option, could be useful

Thanx guys!

BluexDreams, Tochjo is right, i'd like my status to change right away... so Tochjo's solution is quite right for me!

I will try this solution! Thanx again

It is good to have these kinds of plugin but if something like this is added in msgplus that will be wonderful... Coz I have more faith in msgplus rather than any add-on or plugin.

Well, Patchou made support for Plugins because he simply doesn't have time to make every feature people want. Also Patchou doesn't want to include as many features in Plus!, but he only tries to add features that everyone likes and are really usefull.

Maybe a feature you are talking about would be nice, but then many people will also expect that when you appeared offline, you also will appear offline next time you login and i know Patchou didn't want to create such a thing because of his own reasons. I suggest to try DJmystic's sessionsave, if you don't like it you can always uninstall it, but i doubt a feature like this will be included into Plus! itself anytime soon.