Shoutbox

Hi

I am using MSN Messenger 7.5.0299 with Plus 3.61.145. Windows XP.

I noticed that if you have tabbed chats turned on and talking to more than one person, there is a bug whereby you might not notice a new message.

For example if person A's tab is the active tab, and person B sends a message, you can see their tab flashing. However, the MSN chat program on the taskbar doesn't flash. Therefore, if another window is covering the chat window, there is no (visual) way to know if person B's sent a message. (I don't know about audio as I don't have the sound on).

This has caught me out a few times! It is possible to make the taskbar program flash when anyone sends a new message, not just the person with the active tab.

Hope that makes sense?
Marky
(first-time poster)

o noticed that also, was chatting with someone (only 1 person active, no tabs) and left the chat open and he didn´t say anything more.

i left the msn window open because wasn´t bothering me but his msn nick was always there on the taskbar

1 hour later i decided to go play some game and when i opened the msn window again i noticed that there was a new person talking to me (making the tabs appear) for about 30m and i didn´t received any notification of that, no flash on taskbar, no nick name change of the new msn user on taskbar. nothing

was anoying :\ the new person was a hot girl

It will flash, there's just a 15 second delay. It will also switch to that conversation and because of this delay it will give you time to finish reading/writing in the active conversation, the switching conversations is needed for the flashing (notice the namechange in taskbarbutton). If you switch off that option (plus > preferences > instant messages > tabbed chats...."auto-activate chat windows with unread messages"), there will be no more autoswitching screens but also no more taskbarflashes for unfocused chats. If you are experiencing no flashes at all you may wanna check if that setting is enabled.

You can also change the delay if you wish to do so, either manually or with Plus! Tweak (this program changes the registrysettings for you). The regkey you're looking for is GroupAutoSwitchDelay. To download Plus! Tweak or for more information about this regkey see: Help Registry Tweaks

today happen again, looks like it only happen when only we have 1 msn user and a new one came (becaming group) and you have the window inactive in foreground.

all the options is activated in plus, simply it dont flash, name change on taskbar, nothing. only when you have the window visible is that works without a problem

btw, good work on plus patchou and all the testers

YES -- this is my biggest issue with tabbed conversations.

If i start a convo then leave the window open and start working on something else... hours can go by where i don't see any task bar notification at all.    When i go back to Messenger i'll notice that there are 6 or 7 flashing conversation windows INSIDE THE TABS, but there was NO notification on the taskbar...

essentially I ignored everyone unwittingly.

I  had to turn off tabs because of this, which sucks because it's a really great feature.

Please can we get this updated for the next point release?

cheers!

I'll make sure this is all properly fixed in version 4.0 .
Thansk for reporting.

no problem - thanks for a killer app!

Thank god for this. It is very annoying. Happens to me a lot.