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Still a Personalised Status/Reset Status shortcut bug by Nordlyd on 09-27-2004 at 01:03 AM
The Reset Status shortcut feature doesn't work when resetting from a Personalised status. Can someone in charge please try this out, and check if this is a problem on all computers?
Is this the right place to report a bug, meaning that the right people get the message? I've tried before.
I would really like to get this feature working, as I've been unable to use the Personalised Status feature.
I have Messenger Plus! 3.20.100.
RE: Still a Personalised Status/Reset Status shortcut bug by CookieRevised on 09-27-2004 at 04:59 AM
quote:It works fine though, no bugs here (Plus! 3.20.100).....
Originally posted by Nordlyd
The Reset Status shortcut feature doesn't work when resetting from a Personalised status. Can someone in charge please try this out, and check if this is a problem on all computers?
quote:yup, you're in the right place (if it is a bug)...
Originally posted by Nordlyd
Is this the right place to report a bug, meaning that the right people get the message?
quote:You can predefine a personalised status in this menu:
Originally posted by Nordlyd
I would really like to get this feature working, as I've been unable to use the Personalised Status feature.
Plus > Preferences > Personalised Status > Status Presets
Status internal identifier: This is the name that the pers. stat. will get in the various dropdown lists used for settings your status to something else...
Fast-activation shortcut: The shortcut you can use to quickly set your status to this pers. stat.
Messenger Status: The real status that will be set. Of course people without Plus! wont see a personalised status, they can only see one of the real statusses. So this needs to be set here. (useually you would set this to "away")
Name Status Tag: A difficult name for the "fake" status, or the "Plus!" status (whetever you wanna call it). This is the status that people will see who have Messenger Plus!. They will see this text instead of the status that you have defined in "Messenger Status"...
Auto-responder message: Also known as the "auto-away message". This is were you enter some text that will automaticly be send if a someone sends you a message while you are in this pers. stat.
Plus > Preferences > Personalised Status > Configuration
Besides some other things, here is an option were you can activate the special window that will pop up where you can choose (and set) a personalised status when you set your Messenger status to "away". The predefined personlased statusses (see the above) will also be listed here so you don't need to fill everything in again...
Plus > General Options > Miscellaneous > Reset Status Shortcut
Here you define the shortcut that will reset special modes like Boss protection, messenger lock, and also personalised statusses. Make sure the keycombination isn't used anywhere else in Windows or other programs!!
RE: Still a Personalised Status/Reset Status shortcut bug by Nordlyd on 09-28-2004 at 12:10 AM
Thanks.
Well, if the Reset Status shortcut feature works fine from Boss Protection and Messenger Lock, but it doesn't work when resetting from a Personalised status, and it works fine for you, then I guess the problem must be with my OS or something and not with my choice of shortcut keys. Do you have any suggestions on what to do? I really need this feature.
RE: Still a Personalised Status/Reset Status shortcut bug by Patchou on 09-28-2004 at 01:43 AM
If your shortcut works for Boss Protect and Messenger Lock, there's no reson it shouldn't work with Personalised Statuses. Can you tll us exactly what you do and what doesn't work? please include the version of Messenger you're using. thanks.
RE: Still a Personalised Status/Reset Status shortcut bug by Nordlyd on 09-28-2004 at 02:23 AM
Thanks.
I'm using Messenger 6.2.0137 on XP SP1, with a Norwegian keyboard.
I am able to use the keyboard to change TO Personalised Status, TO Messenger Lock, TO Boss Protection, and I'm able to use the reset status keyboard shortcut to change it back FROM Messenger Lock, FROM Boss Protection, but when I use the reset status shortcut when in Personalised Status, nothing happens. I've tried Ctrl-| and Ctrl-9 as shortcuts.
I also had this problem with Plus version 2, on a different XP installation.
RE: Still a Personalised Status/Reset Status shortcut bug by Nordlyd on 10-07-2004 at 09:00 AM
Is there any solution for this, or will there be in the next version?
RE: Still a Personalised Status/Reset Status shortcut bug by elanlee on 10-24-2004 at 12:53 AM
I've run into this same problem, but have just figured something out that might help debug.
If I set a personalized status with no "name status tag" then the "reset status shortcut" does not work. (this seems to be the bug that is described earlier in this thread.
If I set a personalized status with anything at all in the "name status tag" then "reset status shortcut" works.
The quick fix is to just put a blank character in the "name status tag" for each personalized status entry, but it would be nice for the feature to work without it.
Elan
RE: Still a Personalised Status/Reset Status shortcut bug by Nordlyd on 10-24-2004 at 02:20 AM
Thanks! That worked. It will do for now.
At least, now we know it's probably a bug.
RE: Still a Personalised Status/Reset Status shortcut bug by elanlee on 10-24-2004 at 10:25 PM
Glad that worked! 
I'm actually quite new to this, so I don't know if there's anything else I should do to report this bug, or if the fact that this thread exists is good enough.
Any suggestions?
Elan
Personalised status not restored on sign-in by Tweck on 07-10-2005 at 02:25 PM
I have an issue that is related to the above personalised status problems:
If I set a personalised status and then sign out of Messenger, it is not restored when I sign in. The status (e.g. Away) is restored but the name tag is not. The "Personalised Status" dialog pops up too; I don't want to see this dialog when I sign in.
There should be options in the preferences dialog for sign-in - either:
1. Restore previous status AND personalised name tag, or
2. Set status to Online AND remove name tag
Also, I agree with the above points made about the "Reset Status" function. The hotkey should ALWAYS reset the status to Online and remove the personalised name tag. I often find that I have to use another hotkey to set a personalised status name tag before it is possible to use the reset hotkey.
RE: Personalised status not restored on sign-in by CookieRevised on 07-10-2005 at 03:31 PM
quote:Take a look at the official website and its help pages: "Options for Advanced Users", and read the parts of ResetNameTag, NameOnSignin
Originally posted by Tweck
I have an issue that is related to the above personalised status problems:
If I set a personalised status and then sign out of Messenger, it is not restored when I sign in. The status (e.g. Away) is restored but the name tag is not. The "Personalised Status" dialog pops up too; I don't want to see this dialog when I sign in.
RE: Still a Personalised Status/Reset Status shortcut bug by Tweck on 07-10-2005 at 04:07 PM
Thanks. I added those settings but I still get the "Personalised Status" dialog when I sign in; my status and name tag remain the same as when I signed out, but when the dialog times out and closes the name tag is removed. I still can't make it just sign in as Online with my default name. 