Shoutbox

Hi, I don't know if this is actually a bug, but it's a problem I have using the personalized status function. And I post this here cuz I don't what to chat with other users as much as making a real suggestion to Plus! authors.

The fact is that there is no way to have a shortcut to get out from a personalized status. Some years ago, there was such a shortcut, but now, we can only use shortcuts to put on a personalized status.

Unless! ... there is a countdown we can use to "reset" our status. But I don't know what it's used for, since nothing happends after the time I set is over. I'd suppose that it would be use to set back the "online" status after a while, but it doesn't work...

So: first, would it be possible to chose the exact status when we personalize (as it was before, when I could set "phone" or "away for a minute" as well as "away" or "busy"). This way, we could create a shortcut to get back to "online" status.

secundo: what is the "countdown" function used for, if I can't see nothing on my status after the time I've set?

Thank you...

To set your status back to online after setting a personalized status just type "/online" in a conversation window and hit enter. (same works for "/away" and "/busy" etc)

Thank you for that info, I ain't know it.

However, it's not as usefull as the real status control, cuz we often have to change our status without having an opened chat window. When I'm back home, opening a chat window to send "/online" is as complicated as setting my status the old way. Thus, not a real shortcut in that case...

Ty

Yeah I agree. Well the only way I can think of is setting a timer along with the personalised status. Basically it will countdown from however long you set and change your status back to what it previously was after the timer runs out. You can do that from here:



So, in the image, the status would be reset after 5 minutes.

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Originally posted by Quazar_x_
secundo: what is the "countdown" function used for, if I can't see nothing on my status after the time I've set?

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It already works how it supposed to. Make sure, you don't change your status to Away to trigger Personalized Status window, and personalize your status after changing it to Away. Because if you do so, it will not reset your status but Away again.

I demanded this functionality before a long time, read it here although I now think it is not that much important http://shoutbox.menthix.net/showthread.php?tid=61...d=785657#pid785657

This will be done in the next version.