Newest Version 1.0.15, check the bottom of this post..

Here is the requested plugin, that enables ýou to add an automatic update counter in your nickname, count down to your birthday, to the day you are getting married, or days since something special happened...

It supports customization of weather to count in years, days, hours minutes or seconds, can do more or all of them in one, adds a prefix to the numbers, eg, year(s), these are customizable, to give more freedom to foreign languages.
Custom time to change nick name, in seconds.
Supports setting text infront and after the "count" text.

Limits:
Limit of count time is somewhere near 30 years, go above that and the plugin crashes
Limit of delay between each change is almost 12 hours, and min advised dleay is 6 seconds, but this can be set lower but will result in a message box saying it cannort change your name when it have change 10 times.
The limit of the protocol is 10 nick changes in 60 seconds.

Bugs:
The plugin might be some what buggy, it's not finished and might not come another further than this, this plugin wasn't really intended to go as far as i it does, but here it is....
I have tried to eliminate as many bugs as possible in this litle time, as long as you stick to "the rules" there should be no problems....

Date/Time:
The date & time to count to needs to specified full, eg: 04-05-06 09:15:24
I am not sure how well it goes using 12 hour time, but 24 hour time works... if oyu don't need hours, minutes, seconds or anything like that, then just fill those with 00:00:00 and set the plugin to only count/show days...
If the time giving to the plugin will cause any problems it will tell you so on clicking the ok button...

How to use:
go to Plus -> configuration -> Plugins, select "Nickname Counter" and press the Configure button... OR open a conversation window, go to Plus -> Plugins -> Nickname Counter -> Configure
Then fill in the configuration screen and you are ready to go.. Click ok then in a conversation window type "/xcntenable" to enable the counter, and use "/xcntdisable" to disable the counter.
You can use the tag (!XCOUNT) in a conversation window to send the text that is the curent count. This way you can also have a counter counting but do it the way so it doesn't change your nickname...
when setting the nickname in the configuration screen use (!XCOUNT) as tag where the count should be placed eg: "Somenick (!XCOUNT) to my wedding"... This also goes when you use the "/xcntsetnick"...

Install:
Extract the zip file to the Messenger Plus!\Plugins folder, and run the "Install NickCount.bat" file, then restart MSN Messenger and you are ready to go... ..

Enough with all the babbling, here it is... Enjoy!!! ...

Please post ideas, comments, bugs here... But don't expect much more releases on this one, but you can try and post and I might continue...

Edit:
Fixed the annoying bug that made it not work.. it should work now.. ...

Update:
Version 1.0.9
Major Update, Improvemt!

- Improved the Date/Time issue alot, put in a callender and a control to do the clock...
- New way of writing the name, use %y, %d, %h, %m, %s as tags instead of (!XCOUNT), gives you only the corrisponding count as you want
- Major Gui improvements
- Added Enable/Disable button in config screen
- /xcntsetnick command now works properly.. using the % tags...
- A preview text box enables you to better see the result.. ...
- Nick Changes imediatly on choosing ok, initialize, using the /xcntsetnick command, enabling...
- Better handling of the delay count.. .. A combobox with different suggestions, and ability to enter your own number of seconds...
- Saves to registry instead of ini file.. User-based, settings only saved for the user curently logged into your msn messenger...

Update:
Version 1.0.15
- Added the ability to add a "prefix" after day, hour etc...
It works using [] with the corrisponding s, d, h, y, m followed by the prefix you want, eg: day[ds] will result in day when the days count is 1, and days when the days count is anything else but 1.. ...
Some full examples:
"Nick^%y year[ys], %d day[ds], %h hour[hs], %m min[ms], %s sec[ss] to some event"
and a danish version to show the difference
Nick^%y år, %d dag[de], %h time[hr ], %m minut[mter], %s sekund[ser]
Hope this is explanation enoug! (NB: in the [hr ] tag, the space should be removed, but this caused the post to create a line.. ..)
- The "help" label have been made smaller, and now you wil have to doulbe click on it to get the tag help msgbox..
- Works with the official Public release of MSN 7.. Didn't need any change.. ...

Think this was all for now.. A new version is in the progress which will have the ability to add multiple counts, which will be changed to when the first count reaches 0 secs, it will then do another counte,r and when that one reaches 0 it will go on to the next count, and so on.. ...

Enjoy!

I think this was all for now.. .. Enjoy.... A screenshot will be posted in the last post...

Thank You for making this Plugin

But it doesn't work for me, cause' it doesn't show up in the Plugin-Section of MsgPlus.

I Am using 7.0.0632 and MsgPlus 3.40.112. 

Are you sure that you've followed the instructions correctly?

Cyberdude, can we have some compatibility information please?

Reading through that, it sounds like a pretty decent plugin.

* user27089 downloads as it is his birthday soon .

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Originally posted by Screeny
Thank You for making this Plugin

But it doesn't work for me, cause' it doesn't show up in the Plugin-Section of MsgPlus.

I Am using 7.0.0632 and MsgPlus 3.40.112.

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Originally posted by traxor
Are you sure that you've followed the instructions correctly?

Cyberdude, can we have some compatibility information please?

Reading through that, it sounds like a pretty decent plugin.

* traxor downloads as it is his birthday soon .

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would it be possible, in a future update, so allow the counter to work in your 'Personal Message'?

Its not coming up in my Plus Plugins either.

hmmm, doesn't seem to be working, it's not appearing in the plug-ins list and when i start MSN, there is some sort of error that says mis-match in it....

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Originally posted by Cromp
would it be possible, in a future update, so allow the counter to work in your 'Personal Message'?

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Originally posted by (CyBeRDuDe)

You can use the tag (!XCOUNT) in a conversation window to send the text that is the curent count

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Originally posted by (CyBeRDuDe)

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Originally posted by Screeny
Thank You for making this Plugin

But it doesn't work for me, cause' it doesn't show up in the Plugin-Section of MsgPlus.

I Am using 7.0.0632 and MsgPlus 3.40.112.

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Did you follow my exact instructions? If yes, then maybe the installer bat doesn't work properly... I'm not sure, didn't test it, but it is so easy and so litle it shouldn't be able to go wrong.. ..
Try doing the following:
Go to Start menu -> run, type cmd and press enter.
Now type "cd\" and then press enter, then type "cd %programfiles%\messenger plus! 3\plugins" and press enter... then type "regsvr32 CountNick.dll" and press enter... a message box should appear telling you if it succeded or not... then close the window and go to start -> run and type "regedit" and press enter (be aware that using the registry database is of own repsonisibilty, I do NOT take any repsonsibility of any damage this may cause!), then navigate to: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Patchou\MsgPlus2\RegisteredPlugins
right click on the right window and select "New String Value", name that one "Nickname Counter", dobule click on in at a box will appear here you type "CountNick.clsCountNick"... close the registry program, and close messenger (entirely, right click on the systray and choose exit) then start messenger again, and should work, if not, then please report again...

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Originally posted by traxor
Are you sure that you've followed the instructions correctly?

Cyberdude, can we have some compatibility information please?

Reading through that, it sounds like a pretty decent plugin.

* traxor downloads as it is his birthday soon .

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Compatibilty:

I don't really have any compatibility it haven't been tested in anything else but my own computer, I use:

MSN Messenger 7 Public Beta 7.0.0425
Messenger Plus! Beta 3.40.110
And if you want (StuffPlug NG 2.1.xxx)

Windows Messenger shouldn't be needed... so this shouldn't be any problem.. ...

Have you tried it? any errors? problems installing/running?

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Hmm.. Seems to me there is a lot of problems here.. ... Has anyboyd actually got it working? ... traxor?... anybody?.. or did I do something really wrong.. ..

Maybe you can send me a debug version with msgboxes in it or something like that.... Maybe it is a date time conversion thing or so...I am online with msn so maybe I can help you directly?

Just downloaded, killed msn and Plus, installed fine (I checked the reg after running the .bat and the key is the and correct ), ran plus again, ran msn and I got this error.

MSN sat there saying I was signing in till I clicked OK and once I was signed in I checked the plugin list and there is nothing but its running otherwise where would the error box come from. I killed everything and tried again and the exact same thing happened.

It is the only plugin I have installed, I am using MSN 7.0.0604, Plus 3.40.112 and XP PRO SP2.

Hope this info helps and this isn't going to be the only release, as I've wanted a plugin like this for a while now, pitty my bday was last week

I get the same mismatch error

hold on guys.. found out what the problem is... .. stupid me... lol... will be here in soon... ...

Edit:
It's fixed now, check the top post and download again... if you have used the install.bat before it should't be necesary to do it again.. .. Hope it helps... Thanks for the report...

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Originally posted by (CyBeRDuDe)
It's fixed now, check the top post and download again... if you have used the install.bat before it should't be necesary to do it again.. .. Hope it helps... Thanks for the report...

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woohoo well it works so far
only thing I can say is that understanding the configure menu was a bit tricky, I think you need to make it simpler somehow with a better explanation or a simpler way to put the countdown date/time in (eg. dropdown menus?)
other than that I'm liking this plugin

Yay no more error box

I set up the config, time, date, nick, etc. Delay of 6 sec, waited 30 mins and not one change so I thought maybe it has to do with me using MSN7 604 so I uninstalled and install 425 and low and behold it worked So now I must choose MSN7 604 or Count down in my nick or wait till Plus 3.5

If anyone gets it working on 604 let me know

Other then compatibility (not your fault), very well done in such a short time (CyBeRDuDe)

Yeah, I have not tested it on 7.0.0604... so I don't give any support on that one... pelase everybody still have the plugin make sure you don't have 7.0.0604...

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Originally posted by wipey
woohoo well it works so far
only thing I can say is that understanding the configure menu was a bit tricky, I think you need to make it simpler somehow with a better explanation or a simpler way to put the countdown date/time in (eg. dropdown menus?)
other than that I'm liking this plugin

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Originally posted by Joa

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Originally posted by (CyBeRDuDe)
It's fixed now, check the top post and download again... if you have used the install.bat before it should't be necesary to do it again.. .. Hope it helps... Thanks for the report...

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the error message doesn't show up anymore but
it still doesn't work for me. i installed the new version you posted followed all the directions and it does not show up in the plugin-section of msgplus...

Edit 1:
i installed it on my - public MSN beta. and i have plus! beta 3.4, and the latest stuff plug on this msn as well..

Edit 2:
I tried installing it again, thinking that i did some stupid mistake, but same result and the error message pops up again

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CountNick
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Run-time error '13':

Type mismatch
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when i start msn

MSN 7.0.0632/7.0.0425
MsgPlus 3.50 (this might be the problem)

i doubt msgplus 3.50 would be causing a problem LJ , the api and hooking into plus wouldn't have changed that much? probably 7.0.0632

yeh but as i said i tried it on 7.0.0425 as well so i thought it might be plus

hold on ill check with 3.40

EDIT: nope same problem with 3.40

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Originally posted by Lee Jeffery
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CountNick
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Run-time error '13':

Type mismatch
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when i start msn

MSN 7.0.0632/7.0.0425
MsgPlus 3.50 (this might be the problem)

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Originally posted by taz030485
Firstly when did you download the plugin as it was updated  after a lot of ppl had gotten the same error msg. If in fact you do have the fixed version try killing everything MSN, plus etc using task manager, then rerun the bat file, run plus and MSN again and hope fully that will fix the error msg.

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Originally posted by taz030485
Secondly I realised earlier that the plugin does NOT work with MSN 7.0.0604 and I think the same would be true for 623, tho I have not tried, 425 works fine tho.

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Originally posted by taz030485
Thirdly and most importantly MsgPlus 3.50 HAS NOT BEEN RELEASED!! As far as I know, if I am wrong pleaes correct me and tell me where it is you found out it was, as this, the offical site doesn't have it and if it didn't come from here it ain't MsgPlus

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as i said i have the same problem with .0425 as well

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your right it hasnt been released, but im a beta tester

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ok well i downloaded it again and it works so thanx for the help

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Originally posted by Doemaarwat
hmmm... I sound the plugin, have set the information and it does not change my nick at all. What did I do wrong?

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Originally posted by (CyBeRDuDe)

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Originally posted by Doemaarwat
hmmm... I sound the plugin, have set the information and it does not change my nick at all. What did I do wrong?

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You need to type "/xcntenable" in a converation window to activate the chaning of nicknames... please read the top post carefully....

Good to see a few people is getting it working...
To all of you that cannot make it work, please note that it does NOT work with 0.604....

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ok im getting more problems

code:

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CountNick
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Run-time error '6':

Overflow
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Originally posted by Lee Jeffery
ok im getting more problems

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CountNick
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Run-time error '6':

Overflow
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OK   
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this happens with msgplus 3.4 and 3.5 with msn 7.0.0425 and 7.0.0632 so its not a compatibility problem

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I'm a bit of an idiot earlier when I explained that it didn't work with 604 I never acctually tried "/xcntenable" as i didn't fully read the first post. when I tried it with 425 I did, and also my final attempt on 604 I did not try "/xcntenable"

Just a thought could the non-compatibility with 604 be the fact that you can't use / commands is there any other way to enable the plugin wothout doing it through a convo?
EDIT: Never mind, just checked the ini file and enable is true and my name is not changing, so therefore it must be to do with MSN 604

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Originally posted by taz030485
I'm a bit of an idiot earlier when I explained that it didn't work with 604 I never acctually tried "/xcntenable" as i didn't fully read the first post. when I tried it with 425 I did, and also my final attempt on 604 I did not try "/xcntenable"

Just a thought could the non-compatibility with 604 be the fact that you can't use / commands is there any other way to enable the plugin wothout doing it through a convo?

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that worked thanks

working fine now, great plugin

btw it works with the 2 msn vers i tried (.0425 and .0632) and plus vers 3.4 and 3.5

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Originally posted by taz030485
EDIT: Never mind, just checked the ini file and enable is true and my name is not changing, so therefore it must be to do with MSN 604

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I have MSN .0425 and Plus 3.40.112 BETA and it is working for me. Just for the information.

it doesnt work with 3.4 on .0632 but only because / commands dont work i think

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Originally posted by Lee Jeffery
it doesnt work with 3.4 on .0632 but only because / commands dont work i think

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Originally posted by (CyBeRDuDe)

Ok... what if you open the ini file and change "Enable=False" to "Enable=True"... and then try restarting msn again.. does that work?...

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Originally posted by Lee Jeffery

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Originally posted by (CyBeRDuDe)

Ok... what if you open the ini file and change "Enable=False" to "Enable=True"... and then try restarting msn again.. does that work?...

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yup

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Another awesome plugin CD. Great work, keep it up. There's nothing much more I can say, hehe, it's just so good.

hey its not workin i dunno y when i extract the file there'r 2 files 1 .dll file second one is i dunno wat ist , there's no any installer and i cant find configuration in plus

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Originally posted by BrOkEn
hey its not workin i dunno y when i extract the file there'r 2 files 1 .dll file second one is i dunno wat ist , there's no any installer and i cant find configuration in plus

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discovered a problem, not a bug

seeing as the settings for the nick change are stored in the .ini file, all users who log on to the computer get the same countdown

Solution: store the settings in the registry so the countdown is different per user

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Originally posted by Lee Jeffery
all users who log on to the computer get the same countdown
Solution: store the settings in the registry so the countdown is different per user

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well it has to be programmed to store the settings in the msgplus registry

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Patchou\MsgPlus2\<email>\Preferences\Plugins\countnick.dll

* Eljay waits for cyberdude to do it

Not working at all for me cyber dude, maybe the .dll hasn't registered or something, I tried to register it, but it got messed up for some reason . I'll try some other means of registering it

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Originally posted by Lee Jeffery
well it has to be programmed to store the settings in the msgplus registry

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Patchou\MsgPlus2\<email>\Preferences\Plugins\countnick.dll

* Lee Jeffery waits for cyberdude to do it

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Originally posted by inc_haydn
is it possible for a noob like me to do this??

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It works perfectly for me (wasnt working, found out i needed to delete the temporary files, as i had the old one) but now when i click Ok in the configure window this appears:

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|            CountNick               |
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|Error Syntax In Date/Time  |
|Error Number: 6                 |
|Error Description: Overflow|
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Im setting Date & Time part as 0:00:00 (default) or 00-00-00 00:00:00 (all put in ) and i selected seconds & minutes, Counting up, and on N of seconds its 6 (default)

How can i fix it? I read this whole post and nobody seems to have this problem

About the Registry saving:
It will be programmed in the next version.. .. I have thought about this long time ago, I and my self also want this is in.. and it's not hard to do... It's easy... .. I just haven't had time recently prpgramming so a new update might take some time... ... But as stated before this release wasn't really ment to be a huge/world wide release, only ment for a few people to use it and then i'd update it over the time... But I see now that there are really great demand request for this plugin, so I think i'll finish this project before continuing on Tabbed MSN and Further Devolpment on Shortcut Plugin....

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Originally posted by traxor
Not working at all for me cyber dude, maybe the .dll hasn't registered or something, I tried to register it, but it got messed up for some reason . I'll try some other means of registering it

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Originally posted by Art Crazy
It works perfectly for me (wasnt working, found out i needed to delete the temporary files, as i had the old one) but now when i click Ok in the configure window this appears:

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|            CountNick               |
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|Error Syntax In Date/Time  |
|Error Number: 6                 |
|Error Description: Overflow|
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Im setting Date & Time part as 0:00:00 (default) or 00-00-00 00:00:00 (all put in ) and i selected seconds & minutes, Counting up, and on N of seconds its 6 (default)

How can i fix it? I read this whole post and nobody seems to have this problem

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format for the Date & time is:
dd/mm/yyyy hhss

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Originally posted by Lee Jeffery
format for the Date & time is:
dd/mm/yyyy hhss

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Ok, thx all, got it working!

Great plugin, been wanting some plugin like this forever

If you would make a proper installer. All these problems would problably be avoided.

Could you make one that could change the text to some other text 10 times per 60 seconds? Like to show lyrics...


Ill explain better when I have time..

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Originally posted by riahc4
If you would make a proper installer. All these problems would problably be avoided.

Could you make one that could change the text to some other text 10 times per 60 seconds? Like to show lyrics...


Ill explain better when I have time..

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Bump!.. Just to let all you guys out there knowing that I just released a new version of this plugin! ...
Here is a screenshot.. ..

ok, i found the first bug.. %y=hour.. should be year, rite?

other than that, i want to say THANK YOU for making this wonderful plugin! .. i've been wanting something like this for a looong time and u've fufill my dream

Extremely great work CD, keep it up. (I know you will )

..  the plugin seems to disable everytime i shut down msn and i have to enable it each time... can u make it stay enabled all the time?

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Originally posted by BeerBro
ok, i found the first bug.. %y=hour.. should be year, rite?

other than that, i want to say THANK YOU for making this wonderful plugin! .. i've been wanting something like this for a looong time and u've fufill my dream

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Originally posted by BeerBro
..  the plugin seems to disable everytime i shut down msn and i have to enable it each time... can u make it stay enabled all the time?

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Originally posted by Jaguar
Extremely great work CD, keep it up. (I know you will )

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Hehe, ok. Sounds good mate.

I have a question... it's really just me being confused.  If I wanted to count down by days to a certain event, I can't set it to count down every 24 hours?  It says the limit is 12 hours....

Does this mean set it at 12 hours and it checks every 12 hours to see if it needs to be changed or it would make a change every 12 hours?

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Originally posted by jmccarroll
I have a question... it's really just me being confused.  If I wanted to count down by days to a certain event, I can't set it to count down every 24 hours?  It says the limit is 12 hours....

Does this mean set it at 12 hours and it checks every 12 hours to see if it needs to be changed or it would make a change every 12 hours?

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Just downloaded the new version, overwrote the dll and now it's not showing in the plugin list. The previous version worked and showed up fine (Checked right b4 I downloaded). I have removed all reg keys and reran the BAT, manually ran regsvr32 and it succeeds and it's still not showing up.

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Originally posted by taz030485
Just downloaded the new version, overwrote the dll and now it's not showing in the plugin list. The previous version worked and showed up fine (Checked right b4 I downloaded). I have removed all reg keys and reran the BAT, manually ran regsvr32 and it succeeds and it's still not showing up.

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Does this work with the new *leaked* version of MSN too, the older version did I know that... But since I updated both plugin and Messenger, it's not showing in the plugin directory...


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Ok, I got it working by following something about registry in the 1st post of this thread...it was working for a while, then all of a sudden I get 2 error messages, happens each time I load msn. (screenshot attatched)

I'm using

Windows Version: Windows XP, 5.01.2600
Messenger Client Version: 7.0.0732
Messenger Plus! Version: 3.50.0124


Exactly the same as my GF who also has the nickname counter plugin working fine, so it cant be incompatibilty i don't think

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Originally posted by (CyBeRDuDe)
No error messages on start up?... Did you also delete the key
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Patchou\MsgPlus2\<email>\Preferences\Plugins\countnick.dll
in regedit?.. MsgPlus! migth have disabled this plugin for some reason... Shudown msn, delete the key in reg, delete the key n HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Patchou\MsgPlus2\RegisteredPlugins that has to with the counter plugin... rerun the bat file... start messenger.. this should hopefully fix it...unless you are missing the calender dll i use... ... I cannot remember the file name right now, and can't tell you as my computer is currently screwed... ...

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What Windows do you use?.. Msn? Plus!?
Please try running a search on windows folder for the file MSCOMCTL.OCX and also the file MSCOMCT2.OCX, if you do then there is some other problem.. Of course only if the "reinstall" doesn't work... If the "reinstall" method doesn't work, try searching for the files, if you don't have them, then search/download them on google, move it to your windows\system folder, if you are using xp then windows\system32 folder... and then use regsvr32 on them... ... Please report here if it works or not...?...

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hey, off the hook man!

you keep on suprising me Cyber

although im having trouble starting the counter when I start msn, it's rlly good

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Originally posted by Kruxx
Does this work with the new *leaked* version of MSN too, the older version did I know that... But since I updated both plugin and Messenger, it's not showing in the plugin directory...


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Ok, I got it working by following something about registry in the 1st post of this thread...it was working for a while, then all of a sudden I get 2 error messages, happens each time I load msn. (screenshot attatched)

I'm using

Windows Version: Windows XP, 5.01.2600
Messenger Client Version: 7.0.0732
Messenger Plus! Version: 3.50.0124


Exactly the same as my GF who also has the nickname counter plugin working fine, so it cant be incompatibilty i don't think

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Originally posted by taz030485
No there where no error messages, I had removed both keys you said (and ones for plugins I no longer have)
I am using
Windows Version: Windows XP, 5.01.2600
Messenger Client Version: 7.0.0632
Messenger Plus! Version: 3.50.0124

The first ocx was there but the second wasn't so I d/led put in system32. I registered both files to be sure then "reinstalled" and now it works fine Thanks for your help

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hey, off the hook man!

you keep on suprising me Cyber

although im having trouble starting the counter when I start msn, it's rlly good

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Originally posted by (CyBeRDuDe)
Hmm... Yeah, this version haven't been tested properly... As what I can see from the error messages it looks like you have entered a invalid command for one of the settings... I don't know what it might be,I haven't made to much error handling in it(if anything at all ).. I think the problem could be fixed by going to Start - Run and type regedit, and navigate to the key HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Patchou\MsgPlus2\<email>\Preferences\Plugins\countnick.dll
replacing <email> with you msn account... then delete that key, or all values in it.. this will reset all settings and hopefully fix the problem...

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Kruxx:

Please don't dobule and triple post... please use the edit button.. .. But ok...
Hmm... About the problem with it erroing if you use cancel... I don't suspect any bugs there, since pressing cancel doesn't do anything besides reloading all the settings from the registry... That means if you have saved the settings by pressing the ok button and then gone into the configuration again and press cancel it will just load those settings... If you have used the ok, to save, and you restart MSN Messenger, does it work then? or does it error then?.. If it errors then there is a loading bug, if not then I don't know yet, and wil have to check on this.. If you used the cancel button on the very first run without pressing the ok button then there might be a bug there, I don't know haven't tested that thoughrully... I will have to do some more testing and trashing when I get new computer(hopefully tomorrow or during next week) since I don't have any computer atm... ...

The problem not working after you formatted it properly due to that you are missing some system files that I use... I have posted this a few posts above this post and here is the copy/paste:

Please try running a search on windows folder for the file MSCOMCTL.OCX and also the file MSCOMCT2.OCX, if you do then there is some other problem.. Of course only if the "reinstall" doesn't work... If the "reinstall" method doesn't work, try searching for the files, if you don't have them, then search/download them on google, move it to your windows\system folder, if you are using xp then windows\system32 folder... and then use regsvr32 on them... ... Please report here if it works or not...?...

Hope it fixes your problems.. ...

ive got msgplus 3.50, msn 7.0.0632 and loadsa other plugins... works fine here GREAT PLUGIN CYBERDUDE

Sorry about multiple posts, I'm used to other forums that don't have the edit option up for as long as this. But thank you again for a great plugin, works once again, and I think you could be onto something here. If, on the first time configuring if you press cancel you get the errors... I'd suggest fixing this, as if the user isn't sure straight away how to configure, and decide to 'try it later' then the errors will be given when he/she cancels

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Sorry about multiple posts, I'm used to other forums that don't have the edit option up for as long as this. But thank you again for a great plugin, works once again, and I think you could be onto something here. If, on the first time configuring if you press cancel you get the errors... I'd suggest fixing this, as if the user isn't sure straight away how to configure, and decide to 'try it later' then the errors will be given when he/she cancels

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Originally posted by may73alliance
ive got msgplus 3.50, msn 7.0.0632 and loadsa other plugins... works fine here GREAT PLUGIN CYBERDUDE

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I'll do a quick test right now CD, by this I mean I will delete every trace I have of Nickname Counter, install it from scratch, goto configuration and press cancel immediately. I'll report back.

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Well, I delete the two keys in the registry both local machine and current user values, re-installed the plugin, made sure keys had been re-made etc. Came to configure and oddly enough, when I pressed cancel...nothing happened... No errors etc.. it did as it was supposed to. So now I am stumped as to what the problem could be, I know there are some issues with MSN Messenger closing without warning (IE when not responding, and I terminate the process) but other than that...what you thinks up?

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Originally posted by Kruxx
I'll do a quick test right now CD, by this I mean I will delete every trace I have of Nickname Counter, install it from scratch, goto configuration and press cancel immediately. I'll report back.

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Well, I delete the two keys in the registry both local machine and current user values, re-installed the plugin, made sure keys had been re-made etc. Came to configure and oddly enough, when I pressed cancel...nothing happened... No errors etc.. it did as it was supposed to. So now I am stumped as to what the problem could be, I know there are some issues with MSN Messenger closing without warning (IE when not responding, and I terminate the process) but other than that...what you thinks up?

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No problem, if you need more testing just let me know, I'd be happy to comply

Also, a little suggestion here...

I know there's an option to add the masks yourself, and name what comes after it (Eg. %d Days, %h Hours and %m Minutes until my birthday!) and if you want there to be a difference between say ... 30 Minute's' and 1 'Minute' you could just include the 's' in brackets...But I dunno, I don't like how that looks (yes I'm picky) would it be possible to somehow make the plugin detect if the counter is down to 1 year/day/hour/minute and automatically change it to remove the 'S'. I know this could cause some confusion in other language and that's why you gave the option to input your own preference but I think it's worth looking at.

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On second thought, wouldn't having the 's' in brackets an an emoticon to a username anyway? I think this option should seriously be considered

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Originally posted by Kruxx
No problem, if you need more testing just let me know, I'd be happy to comply

Also, a little suggestion here...

I know there's an option to add the masks yourself, and name what comes after it (Eg. %d Days, %h Hours and %m Minutes until my birthday!) and if you want there to be a difference between say ... 30 Minute's' and 1 'Minute' you could just include the 's' in brackets...But I dunno, I don't like how that looks (yes I'm picky) would it be possible to somehow make the plugin detect if the counter is down to 1 year/day/hour/minute and automatically change it to remove the 'S'. I know this could cause some confusion in other language and that's why you gave the option to input your own preference but I think it's worth looking at.

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On second thought, wouldn't having the 's' in brackets an an emoticon to a username anyway? I think this option should seriously be considered

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Great, good luck with it

Wow great. I never thought you would get around to it! Thanks.

Really nice work! many thx , very good this plugin .. first i had some problems .. but i had to download this other .dll and then it worked nice and THX

Bump!!! .. Just to let you guys know that I released a new version.. ..

where is link to download it then

It is attached on the front page of this thread

thnx chestah for saying it

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Hmmm.. by the way BEWARE^^.. Not to offend you or anything.. but you properly have the most annoying Signature i've ever seen.... The lightning effect looks nice, but it is really annoying for the eyes!!!... sorry... I hope you could change it to something else?.. Please?.. Just for the rest of us people?...
Hmm.. Does the plugin work for you?.. Do the new tags work? I hope!!! ...

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Hmmm.. by the way BEWARE^^.. Not to offend you or anything.. but you properly have the most annoying Signature i've ever seen.... The lightning effect looks nice, but it is really annoying for the eyes!!!... sorry... I hope you could change it to something else?.. Please?.. Just for the rest of us people?...
Hmm.. Does the plugin work for you?.. Do the new tags work? I hope!!! ...

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Hello i have this error 13

it worked for 1 or 2 weeks .. but now when i start msn it appears always



i have

Win XP Professional
OS Version    5.1.2600 (WinXP Retail)
OS Service Pack    Service Pack 2
MSN 7.0 Final  7.0.0777 German
Messenger Plus 3.50.124   

First of, great work on this plugin.. It's nearly perfect!

I found some annoying bug though.. As most other users already stated.. After enabling the plugin and shutting down MSN, the next time MSN is started and the contact list is shown the Error 13 shows up.
It happens on all versions I have tried so far, including the latest which has been released today..

I am not sure where the problem relies, but it only happens when the plugin is set to enabled. Also, when the error message comes up, the plugin sort of "crashes", since after the error it isn't shown at the plugins page either in the configuration settings.

I hope you'll be able to resolve this nasty little bug, since a lot of users can't use the plugin because of it

Good luck!

!!!!!! ARGH!!! ... That's really annyoing!!
I hoped this verison wasn't that buggy.. And I can NOT make it error when I try enabling it and then exit msn messenger, and then starting it again.. It doesn't want to error... .. So I have absolutly no clue as to what causes the error.. ... Could I get one of you that is having problems please add me to your msn... So you can help me do some testing.. One that knows how to do stuff and doesn't ask 1 million questions how to this and that... .. Would really be appricated.. My msn is per_bellfield@yahoo.dk

i ahve the older version working downstairs...but on this computer upstairs it wont show up in the plugins section at all.....the files are in the plugins directory of messenger plus! 3, and ive followed the cmd and regedit instructions...still no luck...

would it be because im using the final msn 7? msn 7.0.0777?

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Originally posted by may73alliance
i ahve the older version working downstairs...but on this computer upstairs it wont show up in the plugins section at all.....the files are in the plugins directory of messenger plus! 3, and ive followed the cmd and regedit instructions...still no luck...

would it be because im using the final msn 7? msn 7.0.0777?

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Originally posted by may73alliance
i ahve the older version working downstairs...but on this computer upstairs it wont show up in the plugins section at all.....the files are in the plugins directory of messenger plus! 3, and ive followed the cmd and regedit instructions...still no luck...

would it be because im using the final msn 7? msn 7.0.0777?

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Originally posted by (CyBeRDuDe)
This is a good idea, and I am also goin to implement this... .. It shouldn't be much work to do that... I will look into this, and hopefully include it... maybe make it like a tag like day[s] then it will write days when the count of days is above 1 and if it's 1 it will only write day.. I will just have to find a suitable way of doing this...

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Originally posted by (CyBeRDuDe)

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Originally posted by may73alliance
i ahve the older version working downstairs...but on this computer upstairs it wont show up in the plugins section at all.....the files are in the plugins directory of messenger plus! 3, and ive followed the cmd and regedit instructions...still no luck...

would it be because im using the final msn 7? msn 7.0.0777?

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Please check the posts a couple of posts above this... There is something about some missing files ocx files in windows.. ... That should solve your problem..
And no not beacause of msn 7 final...

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GREAT PLUGIN!!!!! no.... REALLY!!!


1. Can you make the plug-in so that it updates not the NICKNAME but the PERSONAL MESSAGE that MSN 7.0 introduced?

2. And could you make the plug-in so it "enables" itself everytime i start msn messenger. Until now I needed to enable it everytime i restart messenger, otherwise it wil not update my nickname...

Hey, as part of a tutorial i used your plugin as example, i hope you don't mind, attached is the installer i made for it.

How to make an installer for your messenger plus plugin with inno setup

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Originally posted by Barisko
GREAT PLUGIN!!!!! no.... REALLY!!!


1. Can you make the plug-in so that it updates not the NICKNAME but the PERSONAL MESSAGE that MSN 7.0 introduced?

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Originally posted by Barisko
2. And could you make the plug-in so it "enables" itself everytime i start msn messenger. Until now I needed to enable it everytime i restart messenger, otherwise it wil not update my nickname...

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Originally posted by Xerxis
Hey, as part of a tutorial i used your plugin as example, i hope you don't mind, attached is the installer i made for it.

How to make an installer for your messenger plus plugin with inno setup

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Hey Cyberdude, great plugin

One thing i noticed though, when i use symbols like these:



Turn out weird when i copy and paste them into the nickname area of the plugin screen



Is there anyway i can stop them from changing like that? If not, it would be great if you could make the symbols appear properly in the next version you make

that's because the standard windows components included with visual basic are not unicode compatible. One way to solve this would be cyberdude using windows forms components 2.0. But then he would have to redistribute them with his plugin, which would be a pain in the ass and forbidden by microsoft if i remember correctly

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Originally posted by CookieRevised

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Originally posted by (CyBeRDuDe)
This is a good idea, and I am also goin to implement this... .. It shouldn't be much work to do that... I will look into this, and hopefully include it... maybe make it like a tag like day[s] then it will write days when the count of days is above 1 and if it's 1 it will only write day.. I will just have to find a suitable way of doing this...

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Because of some recent suggestions for this plugin, I want to remind you about a post that I made last year in a thread which talked about a possible "counter in nickname" plugin where I already talked about all the possible things you could implement to satisfy everybody and to make it extremely versetile.

http://shoutbox.menthix.net/showthread.php?tid=25...d=282993#pid282993

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Originally posted by (CyBeRDuDe)

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Originally posted by Xerxis
Hey, as part of a tutorial i used your plugin as example, i hope you don't mind, attached is the installer i made for it.

How to make an installer for your messenger plus plugin with inno setup

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Nice.. .. Thank you.... Will try it out now.. see how it works...

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Originally posted by Third Dimension
Hey Cyberdude, great plugin

One thing i noticed though, when i use symbols like these:



Turn out weird when i copy and paste them into the nickname area of the plugin screen



Is there anyway i can stop them from changing like that? If not, it would be great if you could make the symbols appear properly in the next version you make

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Originally posted by Xerxis
that's because the standard windows components included with visual basic are not unicode compatible. One way to solve this would be cyberdude using windows forms components 2.0. But then he would have to redistribute them with his plugin, which would be a pain in the ass and forbidden by microsoft if i remember correctly

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http://support.microsoft.com/kb/224305/EN-US/ (The Fm20.dll is NOT redistributable. You must have an application such as Microsoft Office 97 on the target system that installs Fm20.dll as part of its setup.)

I wouldn't know another free unicode component library

btw, i'll chance the installer so that it terminates the msg plus process if the plugin already exists

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Originally posted by CookieRevised

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Originally posted by (CyBeRDuDe)
This is a good idea, and I am also goin to implement this... .. It shouldn't be much work to do that... I will look into this, and hopefully include it... maybe make it like a tag like day[s] then it will write days when the count of days is above 1 and if it's 1 it will only write day.. I will just have to find a suitable way of doing this...

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Because of some recent suggestions for this plugin, I want to remind you about a post that I made last year in a thread which talked about a possible "counter in nickname" plugin where I already talked about all the possible things you could implement to satisfy everybody and to make it extremely versetile.

http://shoutbox.menthix.net/showthread.php?tid=25...d=282993#pid282993

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I've checked the thread.. Apperently I was active in that thread to... .. lol!!! But I didn't really find anything I could use in your post.... The only thing was really the (!xcountdown) tag.. But I also had that in my previous version.. But now i changed the system a bit so ýou can't do this anymore..

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Originally posted by (CyBeRDuDe)
But in  the next version I will include tags like (!XCNTY), (!XCNTD),(!XCNTH),(!XCNTYM),(!XCNTS) to show number of yers, days, hours, minutes, seconds that the count down uses... this way you can make you own quicktext like "(!XCNTH) hours ,(!XCNTYM) mins ,(!XCNTS) seconds to some event! ".. etc..

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Originally posted by CookieRevised

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Originally posted by (CyBeRDuDe)

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Originally posted by CookieRevised

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Originally posted by (CyBeRDuDe)
This is a good idea, and I am also goin to implement this... .. It shouldn't be much work to do that... I will look into this, and hopefully include it... maybe make it like a tag like day[s] then it will write days when the count of days is above 1 and if it's 1 it will only write day.. I will just have to find a suitable way of doing this...

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(...)

Because of some recent suggestions for this plugin, I want to remind you about a post that I made last year in a thread which talked about a possible "counter in nickname" plugin where I already talked about all the possible things you could implement to satisfy everybody and to make it extremely versetile.

http://shoutbox.menthix.net/showthread.php?tid=25...d=282993#pid282993

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I've checked the thread.. Apperently I was active in that thread to... .. lol!!! But I didn't really find anything I could use in your post.... The only thing was really the (!xcountdown) tag.. But I also had that in my previous version.. But now i changed the system a bit so ýou can't do this anymore..

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With all respect, but you can use everything in that post. The whole system is based upon a few entry fields and all the rest is done with inline tags (aka placeholders). The system is very versitile and you don't need to create any Plus! tags because of that (other then (!xcountdown) or something if you like).  You're already working with placeholders, but it lacks big support and freedom to the user, hence the constant requests to add this and that (eg: add a countdown, add a countup, add a way to remove the 's' from 'days', make it international, etc.).

I'm sorry to say this but, although the current plugin works, it is very very limited in it's current setup.

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Originally posted by (CyBeRDuDe)
But in  the next version I will include tags like (!XCNTY), (!XCNTD),(!XCNTH),(!XCNTYM),(!XCNTS) to show number of yers, days, hours, minutes, seconds that the count down uses... this way you can make you own quicktext like "(!XCNTH) hours ,(!XCNTYM) mins ,(!XCNTS) seconds to some event! ".. etc..

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This will also limit the user and you will still get requests to add this and that, and soon you'll have more then 50 Plus! tags, which is of no use. Revise the system, and use placeholders instead (as shown in my post in that thread), that way the user can make everything as he likes and don't need to constantly use all the Plus! tags in his quicktexts and you also don't overwelm Plus! and the system memory with all kinds of tags....

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Originally posted by Xerxis
I will look into this, and see if I can find another ontrol more suitable... .. I can't promise it will be include in the next version.. But in the final version it will... .. This plugin will not be final version until I have this set straight.. Thank you for posting.. ...

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does this work with colour nick?

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Originally posted by inquiringmind
does this work with colour nick?

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Originally posted by inquiringmind
does this work with colour nick?

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OMG, I sooo want this plugin, but I just tried to install it and now my MSN won't open. WTH is going on? Can some one tell me?

Okay...
I now have a problem with it.

I tried to install it, but the options didn't show up.
I just reinstalled my comp, so I was thinking that I might a particular file to make it run.

The installation ran smoothly, but I couldn't find the counter in Plus!/Pref/Plugins.

7.0.0777
3.52.130

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Originally posted by Matafluer
OMG, I sooo want this plugin, but I just tried to install it and now my MSN won't open. WTH is going on? Can some one tell me?

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Originally posted by thekid
Okay...
I now have a problem with it.

I tried to install it, but the options didn't show up.
I just reinstalled my comp, so I was thinking that I might a particular file to make it run.

The installation ran smoothly, but I couldn't find the counter in Plus!/Pref/Plugins.

7.0.0777
3.52.130

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Hi (CyBeRDuDe),

I can get the plugin working now, but it was really funny.

I used the files you posted on the top post, and I never noticed the installer by Xerxis.
So I gave it a try.
The funny thing is, it works (using the installer by Xerxis)
And I didn't need to restart the messenger.

However, before the plugin worked, I did notice the value of Enable in the registry setting was 0.
I tried to change it to 1 manually, but it didn't give any result.
It just changed back to 0 again.

I really like this plugin, and this is something that I waited for a long time.

May I suggest you to use the suggestion from CookieRevised?
I see it as a great idea for your plugin in the future.
But, yeah, it's up to you

Edit: Question for you:
The plugin is automatically disabled if I reboot the computer. Is that normal?
Can you possibly keep it running (or remember the settings) although I signed out from the messenger?

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Originally posted by thekid
Hi (CyBeRDuDe),

I can get the plugin working now, but it was really funny.

I used the files you posted on the top post, and I never noticed the installer by Xerxis.
So I gave it a try.
The funny thing is, it works (using the installer by Xerxis)
And I didn't need to restart the messenger.

However, before the plugin worked, I did notice the value of Enable in the registry setting was 0.
I tried to change it to 1 manually, but it didn't give any result.
It just changed back to 0 again.

I really like this plugin, and this is something that I waited for a long time.

May I suggest you to use the suggestion from CookieRevised?
I see it as a great idea for your plugin in the future.
But, yeah, it's up to you

Edit: Question for you:
The plugin is automatically disabled if I reboot the computer. Is that normal?
Can you possibly keep it running (or remember the settings) although I signed out from the messenger?

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I just noticed that the plugin doesn't support multiple account well, because my little brothers name suddenly changed to the name I entered in the plugin settings on my MSN account after the delay time (which is 1 hour). (This happaned after I logged off and he logged on)

Windows-versie: Windows XP, 5.01.2600
Messenger-versie: 7.0.0813 (Wave 11 Skin)
Messenger Plus!-versie: 3.52.0130
Nickname Counter 1.0.15

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Originally posted by Markus
I just noticed that the plugin doesn't support multiple account well, because my little brothers name suddenly changed to the name I entered in the plugin settings on my MSN account after the delay time (which is 1 hour). (This happaned after I logged off and he logged on)

Windows-versie: Windows XP, 5.01.2600
Messenger-versie: 7.0.0813 (Wave 11 Skin)
Messenger Plus!-versie: 3.52.0130
Nickname Counter 1.0.15

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Originally posted by (CyBeRDuDe)
t works if you shutdown msn and then open again and signin in with your brothers account, right?.

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great plugin, but please post a link for the installer - i installed by the .bat and it didn't work, i had to read all most all the pages for some help, then i found the installer
great plugin any way

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Originally posted by Cool Rik
great plugin, but please post a link for the installer - i installed by the .bat and it didn't work, i had to read all most all the pages for some help, then i found the installer
great plugin any way

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Originally posted by kalmi
It's working at me, it's very good!
But the .bat is bad for new versions of Messenger Plus.
I wrote the good version of .bat

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Originally posted by kalmi
It's working at me, it's very good!
But the .bat is bad for new versions of Messenger Plus.
I wrote the good version of .bat

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regsvr32 CountNick.dll /s
reg add HKLM\SOFTWARE\Patchou\MsgPlus3\RegisteredPlugins /v "Nickname Counter" /d CountNick.clsCountNick

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Originally posted by CookieRevised

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Originally posted by kalmi
It's working at me, it's very good!
But the .bat is bad for new versions of Messenger Plus.
I wrote the good version of .bat

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regsvr32 CountNick.dll /s
reg add HKLM\SOFTWARE\Patchou\MsgPlus3\RegisteredPlugins /v "Nickname Counter" /d CountNick.clsCountNick

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That's wrong.... The correct key is HKLM\SOFTWARE\Patchou\MsgPlus2\RegisteredPlugins

Do not assume, that Plus! 3 uses "MsgPlus3" as subkey! It still uses "MsgPlus2" for obvious compatibily reasons. And for this proably will always use "MsgPlus2"...

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but the original didn't worked at me

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Originally posted by (CyBeRDuDe)
The Batch file DOES register the dlll with Regsvr32... ..

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Originally posted by CookieRevised
... And the DLL was also registered. The plugin seems to be a VB plugin (from seeing the batch installer) and VB plugins need also to be registered with regsvr32. But the batch installer doesn't do this, so this couldn't be the batch installers fault anyways if this wasn't done...

Correct me if I'm wrong, CyBeRDuDe.

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regsvr32 CountNick.dll /s
reg add HKLM\SOFTWARE\Patchou\MsgPlus2\RegisteredPlugins /v "Nickname Counter" /d CountNick.clsCountNick

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This plugin doesnt work for me I ran the batch file with the dll both inside the plugin folder but it doesnt appear as a plugin. Plus! preferences doesnt detect it as a plugin

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Originally posted by riahc4
This plugin doesnt work for me I ran the batch file with the dll both inside the plugin folder but it doesnt appear as a plugin. Plus! preferences doesnt detect it as a plugin

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The only problem I still have with this plugin is that it doesn't start at startup...

It works great once I have manually enabled the plugin.. The plugin just isn't enabled by default, eventhough I have set it in the properties and registry multiple times..

I checked the registry. The registry-key called "enable" is set to "true". BUT once Messenger plus! starts, the value is automatically set to "false" again. Verry odd..

It's the only bug I was able to find

For now I will just initiate the /xcntenable command as soon as MSN starts

A suggestion:
Put in the double click help popup a example. Makes it much easier to see....

(CyBeRDuDe) are you gonna do more updates for this plugin?

what about make this plugin possible in the "personal message field"?
BTW awsone little plugin

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A suggestion:
Put in the double click help popup a example. Makes it much easier to see....

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Originally posted by riahc4
(CyBeRDuDe) are you gonna do more updates for this plugin?

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Originally posted by Metall [PT
]what about make this plugin possible in the "personal message field"?
BTW awsone little plugin

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Originally posted by (CyBeRDuDe)
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Will make a few "quickfixes", and then make a installer for it and release a new version soon.... Just gonna release my other plugin first... .

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I had another idea... what about to make possible to when the time elapses to be able to change to another frase you want?
for example if you'r counting the time to pass the year, and when the time elapses to put a "good year" name...

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Originally posted by Metall [PT
]I had another idea... what about to make possible to when the time elapses to be able to change to another frase you want?
for example if you'r counting the time to pass the year, and when the time elapses to put a "good year" name...

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Damn this is IMO is your best plugin out of all the ones you created in your sig...

I really wish someone could take this project and continue it because it looks great.

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Damn this is IMO is your best plugin out of all the ones you created in your sig...

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I was wondering, this is all so confusing for me, Is there a .exe installer version for this? im too confused with the .bat thing.

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I was wondering, this is all so confusing for me, Is there a .exe installer version for this? im too confused with the .bat thing.

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Repeat....could anyone help me with the problem that pop up?

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Originally posted by riahc4
Repeat....could anyone help me with the problem that pop up?

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Originally posted by (CyBeRDuDe)

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Repeat....could anyone help me with the problem that pop up?

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Well... Not exactly, since I didn't put much error handling in it, and the error message you get is a very regular message that doesn't give me much info... so.. ...
One thing you might try to is to go to Regedit and locate "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Patchou\MsgPlus2\<Email>\Preferences\Plugins\CountNick.dll" (replace <email> with your email)... and then delete that key... then try again... hopefully that would solve you problem?... If not, please try writting again... ..

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UH, got a little problem, the count is wrong

I set it for 15 juli and it says 13 days left, but it's 14 days

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Originally posted by Ezra
UH, got a little problem, the count is wrong

I set it for 15 juli and it says 13 days left, but it's 14 days

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Ah, I see, thnx

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Type mismatch error... worked for a day, opened msn the next day and I get an error 13...

I'm aware you're attempting to find others to work on your codes, and I'm also aware that as this is my first post on this particular forum , you may not listen to much to me lol

All i was wondering is if it was possible to introduce one more tag into the plugin, to display months. I am counting up from an event over 7 months ago, and I would prefer it to say 7 months, 4 days etc. than 218 days.

Hope either CD or whoever gets this code can ssee someway of doing it.

Loving your plugin, this one plugin is the entire reason I even got MSGPlus!

Jamibu

Welcome to the forum..
Well.. Yes, this is possible.. Though this might be the job for whoever wants to take this project (sometime, if any? ) .
It is possible, and could be done in 2 ways:
1: Just divide the number of days by 30, to give a number of months, and the rest would be days.. Would be very easy to do it this way... But this would give a "inaccuratly" result, because each month have different number of days.. But it would fit the most needs..
2: Would be to calculate each month ahead, including 1 day in february when leap year. This would be a litle more diffcult then the first method, but would give the exact number of months and days.

Thanks for your idea, and I'm glad to hear you love my plugin..

Thanks for your quick reply!

Also, was there a solution to the type mismatch error 13 thing? i read through the forum before this error came up and i don't REMEMBER seeing one, but if so, please let me know, cos until then I won't be able to use the plugin anyway

Messenger Plus 3.62.146
Messenger 7.5.0311
Windows XP SP2

is there a fix for this runtime error? Please?!

oh and is there a way to UN - INSTALL this plugin? I hatee to see that error i will retry the plugin when its fixed. Ty.

Good plugin just buggy

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Originally posted by Jamibu
Thanks for your quick reply!

Also, was there a solution to the type mismatch error 13 thing? i read through the forum before this error came up and i don't REMEMBER seeing one, but if so, please let me know, cos until then I won't be able to use the plugin anyway

Messenger Plus 3.62.146
Messenger 7.5.0311
Windows XP SP2

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Originally posted by XxDeMoNxX
oh and is there a way to UN - INSTALL this plugin? I hatee to see that error i will retry the plugin when its fixed. Ty.

Good plugin just buggy

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Well it works temporarily, but as soon as I exit Messenger, or indeed restart the computer, the error returns again, and deleting something from the registry every time I want to use Messenger will get a bit tiresome

Ah well

has the bug that disabled it when you shut down MSN been fixed yet?

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Originally posted by NiteMare
has the bug that disabled it when you shut down MSN been fixed yet?

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so there is still no fix to the error 13 problem then?

ah

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Originally posted by Jamibu
All i was wondering is if it was possible to introduce one more tag into the plugin, to display months. I am counting up from an event over 7 months ago, and I would prefer it to say 7 months, 4 days etc. than 218 days.

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Can I count not til the date but from a date?
I cant seem to figure that out

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Originally posted by onetouchspark
Can I count not til the date but from a date?
I cant seem to figure that out

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Hello.... iam using this countdown timer for MSN and it's great!!
Works fine and would like to thanks you!

But i am getting the error "Your display name could not be changed. Please try again later"

and it's realy annoying, it comes up every couple of mins!
Is there a way of disabling this error message from coming up?

Thanks

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Originally posted by Lfm
Hello.... iam using this countdown timer for MSN and it's great!!
Works fine and would like to thanks you!

But i am getting the error "Your display name could not be changed. Please try again later"

and it's realy annoying, it comes up every couple of mins!
Is there a way of disabling this error message from coming up?

Thanks

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Originally posted by CookieRevised

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Originally posted by Lfm
Hello.... iam using this countdown timer for MSN and it's great!!
Works fine and would like to thanks you!

But i am getting the error "Your display name could not be changed. Please try again later"

and it's realy annoying, it comes up every couple of mins!
Is there a way of disabling this error message from coming up?

Thanks

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The plugin from this thread is very old and also contains some bugs.

I advise to use the following countdown plugin instead, which has all the same (and some more) options:

http://shoutbox.menthix.net/showthread.php?tid=52...d=614124#pid614124

(shameless advertising, but still...)

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As for the error you get, that is quite a "normal" error with such plugins (mind the quotes). The fault isn't so much in the plugin itself (unless you use an update interval which is too frequent (less than every 6 seconds or so)), but some yet to define other flood protection or something (or even a bug?) in Messenger itself.

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