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Scripting Contest - Final Strech by Patchou on 12-14-2006 at 12:33 AM

Hello,

there is less than a week left before the scripting contest ends and we’ve already received some impressive results! more than 70 scripts have been submitted and if you still didn’t send us your own work, you have until December 19th midnight (GMT-8) to do so. After that time, every script will be carefully reviewed a second time and the winners will be announced in January, along with the distribution of a special edition of the Messenger Plus! installer including the selected scripts. If you already thought Messenger Plus! had a lot of features, wait and see what some of these scripts can do for you! (actually, you don’t have to wait, you can already download all of them in the official database).

Appart from that, some of you may have noticed that Microsoft recently updated the public beta version of Messenger 8.1 (to build 168). In case you would wonder, the current version of Messenger Plus! (4.11) is entirely compatible with this new version so you can go ahead and update if you’d like.

See you in a week! (can you feel it? Christmas is here!)
Patchou

RE: Scripting Contest - Final Strech by Rolando on 12-14-2006 at 12:34 AM

quote:
Originally posted by Patchou
Hello,

there is less than a week left before the scripting contest ends and we’ve already received some impressive results! more than 70 scripts have been submitted and if you still didn’t send us your own work, you have until December 19th midnight (GMT-8) to do so. After that time, every script will be carefully reviewed a second time and the winners will be announced in January, along with the distribution of a special edition of the Messenger Plus! installer including the selected scripts. If you already thought Messenger Plus! had a lot of features, wait and see what some of these scripts can do for you! (actually, you don’t have to wait, you can already download all of them in the official database).

Appart from that, some of you may have noticed that Microsoft recently updated the public beta version of Messenger 8.1 (to build 168). In case you would wonder, the current version of Messenger Plus! (4.11) is entirely compatible with this new version so you can go ahead and update if you’d like.

See you in a week!
Patchou

Special version of MPL with the scripts already installed? I'll wait to see that, sounds nice.
RE: Scripting Contest - Final Strech by matty on 12-14-2006 at 01:21 AM

I hope the installer will ask the user which scripts they wish to install instead of forcing them on the user.

Other then that Dempsey and I are strugling to get Screenshot Sender 4 ready for an update.

RE: Scripting Contest - Final Strech by prashker on 12-14-2006 at 01:27 AM

Yay, Christmasanukkah :cheesy:

* prashker smells Hanukkah air :D


And I smell the end of the contest :cheesy:

RE: Scripting Contest - Final Strech by MicroWay on 12-14-2006 at 01:35 AM

Yey!!!
Liked the news Patchou (even  I'm not a Script Developer :( -> just a Script User)
Anyway... liked the idea of the "special instaler" with scripts.;..

quote:
Originally posted by Matty
I hope the installer will ask the user which scripts they wish to install instead of forcing them on the user.
In my opinion, the instaler have to instal the scripts without any asking... It's just to warning the people on "News" that the instaler instals the scripts...... If it has an opition to choose, I think people will get more confused... Or it can be done an opition to the user choose to instal Plus! with or wothout the scripts (without choosing witch one)
RE: Scripting Contest - Final Strech by Rolando on 12-14-2006 at 01:37 AM

quote:
Originally posted by MicroWay
Yey!!!
Liked the news Patchou (even  I'm not a Script Developer :( -> just a Script User)
Anyway... liked the idea of the "special instaler" with scripts.;..

quote:
Originally posted by Matty
I hope the installer will ask the user which scripts they wish to install instead of forcing them on the user.
In my opinion, the instaler have to instal the scripts without any asking... It's just to warning the people on "News" that the instaler instals the scripts...... If it has an opition to choose, I think people will get more confused... Or it can be done an opition to the user choose to instal Plus! with or wothout the scripts (without choosing witch one)

Errr. no. I'm 99% sure Patchou will give users the option to choose, with a list and a small desc. of each script.
RE: Scripting Contest - Final Strech by Supersonicdarky on 12-14-2006 at 01:39 AM

thnx for reminding me, almost forgot to finish the script :o

* Supersonicdarky wants the t-shirt :P

RE: Scripting Contest - Final Strech by MicroWay on 12-14-2006 at 01:41 AM

quote:
Originally posted by q25
Errr. no. I'm 99% sure Patchou will give users the option to choose, with a list and a small desc. of each script.
In anyway Patchou make the instaler, I'm 100% sure in one thing: I'll be waiting to this "special release" of Plus!!!! :D(Y)
RE: Scripting Contest - Final Strech by Menthix on 12-14-2006 at 07:37 AM

quote:
Originally posted by Patchou
more than 70 scripts have been submitted
:bow:

Now... flood me with more! :)
RE: Scripting Contest - Final Strech by Jimbo on 12-14-2006 at 07:46 AM

ok, should we have got emails from frasie yet?

RE: Scripting Contest - Final Strech by vaccination on 12-14-2006 at 08:23 AM

quote:
Originally posted by MenthiX

Now... flood me with more! :)

will do, just give me a day or day ;o

Good to know 4.11 is compatible with the latest beta. =)

*gets back to finishing windows for script*
RE: RE: Scripting Contest - Final Strech by J-Thread on 12-14-2006 at 09:31 AM

quote:
Originally posted by MenthiX
Now... flood me with more! :)
Sure, I haven't submitted the winning script yet:-#;)

3 to go, I'm really busy, hope I'll make it before the end of the contest. And else....we will have some nice updates / new scripts after the contest:P
RE: Scripting Contest - Final Strech by Menthix on 12-14-2006 at 10:09 AM

quote:
Originally posted by Jimbodude
should we have got emails from frasie yet?
No, we changed plans a bit, those seconds mails will now all be sent somewhere at the end/after the contest.
RE: Scripting Contest - Final Strech by NanaFreak on 12-14-2006 at 11:11 AM

quote:
Originally posted by Matty
I hope the installer will ask the user which scripts they wish to install instead of forcing them on the user.

Other then that Dempsey and I are strugling to get Screenshot Sender 4 ready for an update.
o.O
now markee and i have a better chance of winning....

* NanaFreak works harder on script...

oh and thanks for the reminder Patchou ;)
RE: Scripting Contest - Final Strech by Nagamasa on 12-14-2006 at 12:05 PM

:D Better scripts for me to use! :D

*Nagamasa now waits for the 'special edition'.

RE: Scripting Contest - Final Strech by Eddie on 12-14-2006 at 02:17 PM

These scripts are going to be very interesting to see :) im looking forward to it :D

RE: Scripting Contest - Final Strech by John Anderton on 12-14-2006 at 02:22 PM

Thats great news. 70 is too small a number. Lets crank it up babeh! :cheesy:

quote:
Originally posted by SonicSam
* SonicSam smells Hanukkah air :D
commie :sad:
RE: Scripting Contest - Final Strech by Matti on 12-14-2006 at 03:17 PM

If my private BETA-testers are done with Calculator, I publish it. :P
Maybe I can take a look at Countdown Live too first... ^o)

RE: Scripting Contest - Final Strech by Oxy on 12-14-2006 at 04:51 PM

YAYs, can't wait 'till the special version! :P

RE: Scripting Contest - Final Strech by Choli on 12-14-2006 at 09:13 PM

sounds nice... i hope my script goes in the special version (A) :P

RE: Scripting Contest - Final Strech by alexp2_ad on 12-14-2006 at 09:59 PM

quote:
Originally posted by Patchou
you have until December 19th midnight (GMT-8) to do so.
Patchou
Question, purely out of interest, is that like midnight at the beginning or the end of the 19th? *-)
RE: Scripting Contest - Final Strech by Lou on 12-14-2006 at 10:07 PM

I would've entered, but the script I was planning on making would have taken too much time (I wouldn't have had any time to even start it anyway).

Good luck to all script creators, and Good luck to the judges too as they already have 70 scripts, and I'm sure they'll get more!

RE: Scripting Contest - Final Strech by Patchou on 12-14-2006 at 10:28 PM

lol.. it's midnight like in December 19th 11:59:59 PM.

RE: Scripting Contest - Final Strech by Voldemort on 12-14-2006 at 10:29 PM

i'll see if i can finish : >

RE: Scripting Contest - Final Strech by L. Coyote on 12-15-2006 at 04:49 AM

Bah, I just had to have exams for finishing high school. :(

RE: Scripting Contest - Final Strech by Thor on 12-15-2006 at 06:40 AM

Nice news! :D

Good idea with the scripts bundled with (Y)

RE: Scripting Contest - Final Strech by vaccination on 12-16-2006 at 09:14 PM

submitted mine (H)

RE: Scripting Contest - Final Strech by NanaFreak on 12-17-2006 at 01:57 PM

quote:
Originally posted by Jimbodude
Ive submitted mine in the DB but STILL haven't got an email from frasie accepting it into the contest or not!
SHUT UP ABOUT IT JIMBODUDE!!!!!!!
quote:
Originally posted by MenthiX
quote:
Originally posted by Jimbodude
should we have got emails from frasie yet?
No, we changed plans a bit, those seconds mails will now all be sent somewhere at the end/after the contest.
read the thread next time 8-)

submitting my new script sometime tomorrow :cheesy:

also 2 others :P
RE: Scripting Contest - Final Strech by duck! on 12-17-2006 at 02:38 PM

quote:
Originally posted by NanaFreak
submitting my new script sometime tomorrow :cheesy:
also 2 others :P
Two others :O, well thats cool.
Loads of scripts are gonna come out tommorrow :P
I cant wait :P
RE: RE: Scripting Contest - Final Strech by markee on 12-17-2006 at 04:09 PM

quote:
Originally posted by noodle!
quote:
Originally posted by NanaFreak
submitting my new script sometime tomorrow :cheesy:
also 2 others :P
Two others :O, well thats cool.
Loads of scripts are gonna come out tommorrow :P
I cant wait :P

He didn't mean releasing 2 other tomorrow, we're just going to start work on the tiny script and finish the larger one.  But we might not submit our newest one tomorrow, we might just release an English only version on the forum (depending on how quick the translators get back to us).  Though it is a shame that we didn't have more time to get all we wanted done for our big script, but you can expect an update with more features in the coming month/s depending how all these other scripts on my list go.  Anyway, more about that when I finish it in the morning.

* markee works quicker and quicker as the finish line approaches
RE: Scripting Contest - Final Strech by Menthix on 12-17-2006 at 04:41 PM

Just to be sure (a few people asked about it):

Scripts contest end date and time in your timezone

Make sure your script is emailed to the submit address at that time. Every script that is in the mailbox at that time will still be reviewed for the contest.

If you script isn't finished yet at the 19th, but you still think the script is usable and good enough to make a chance... make sure you disable the half-done/buggy features that aren't ready yet in a way so users won't get trouble because of it and submit. After the contest you can send in an update for it, although we wont look at updates submitted after the end time to judge your script.

RE: Scripting Contest - Final Strech by BraydenP on 12-19-2006 at 09:27 AM

Hello,

Why don't you just create a countdown on a website.

Then it will tell us the exact hours etc for it has to be in.

That website confused me.

Im in the UK.

And it's Tuesday, 19 December, 2006

So im confused .. (N) ..

Thanks,

BraydenP.

RE: Scripting Contest - Final Strech by Zahid™ on 12-19-2006 at 09:50 AM

quote:
Originally posted by BraydenP
Hello,

Why don't you just create a countdown on a website.

Then it will tell us the exact hours etc for it has to be in.

That website confused me.

Im in the UK.

And it's Tuesday, 19 December, 2006

So im confused .. (N) ..

Thanks,

BraydenP.
To submit your script it has to be submitted before tomorrow 08.00 AM.
RE: Scripting Contest - Final Strech by Menthix on 12-19-2006 at 10:06 AM

quote:
Originally posted by BraydenP
Im in the UK.

And it's Tuesday, 19 December, 2006
Uh, what link did you click? timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?month=12&day=20&year=2006&hour=0&min=0 (which is the only link i posted) says U.K. - England - London    Wed 8:00 AM, so like Zahid said :).


EDIT: Countdown to the end of the contest :)
RE: Scripting Contest - Final Strech by BraydenP on 12-19-2006 at 11:35 AM

Hello,

Yes MenthiX i know it's tomorrow but I was getting confused.

Anyway that countdown will be better .. ;) ..

Thanks,

BraydenP.

RE: Scripting Contest - Final Strech by Felu on 12-19-2006 at 12:45 PM

Finished one of my Scripts(@ScriptDev). Working on Backup Extreme!. Will be submitting both tonight [Image: msn_grin.gif].

RE: Scripting Contest - Final Strech by vikke on 12-19-2006 at 09:24 PM

I couldn't make it. I've been sitting here for 2 hours trying to make my code bugfree.

Sorry guys. My wordwheel and spell checker couldn't compete here in this contest. :(

Good luck!

RE: Scripting Contest - Final Strech by NiteMare on 12-19-2006 at 11:38 PM

quote:
Originally posted by vikke
I couldn't make it. I've been sitting here for 2 hours trying to make my code bugfree.

Sorry guys. My wordwheel and spell checker couldn't compete here in this contest. :(

Good luck!


you still have 8 hours left!:-P
RE: Scripting Contest - Final Strech by J-Thread on 12-20-2006 at 12:12 AM

Submitted! Now I can sleep again|-)

RE: Scripting Contest - Final Strech by matty on 12-20-2006 at 01:38 AM

SendTo v1.9 has been submitted.
Screenshot Sender 4 has one bug and it was cause I used bitwise comparison so once I fix that version 4.1.0 should be submitted and released on the forums. I may release tonight or tomorrow on the forum.

RE: Scripting Contest - Final Strech by NanaFreak on 12-20-2006 at 01:40 AM

quote:
Originally posted by Matty
SendTo v1.9 has been submitted.
Screenshot Sender 4 has one bug and it was cause I used bitwise comparison so once I fix that version 4.1.0 should be submitted and released on the forums. I may release tonight or tomorrow on the forum.
so does that mean its in the competition??

also im submitting 4 from me :D (3 with markee :P)
RE: Scripting Contest - Final Strech by matty on 12-20-2006 at 01:43 AM

Screenshot Sender 4 will be in the competition, I take it it will be under the "full featured scripts" category lol.

RE: Scripting Contest - Final Strech by markee on 12-20-2006 at 08:00 AM

Tha-tha-tha-that's all folks [Image: msn_tongue.gif]

Good luck to everyone who entered.

RE: Scripting Contest - Final Strech by mathieumg on 12-20-2006 at 08:00 AM

Time's up! :p

I sent my script like 20 minutes before the deadline :rolleyes: That was close!

RE: Scripting Contest - Final Strech by matty on 12-20-2006 at 08:03 AM

With last minute testing from EllyJelly I managed to get it off just in time.

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RE: Scripting Contest - Final Strech by mathieumg on 12-20-2006 at 08:06 AM

I first thought the deadline was @ 2 AM, I rushed like hell at 1:55 AM, but I was so relieved when I realized the deadline was actually @ 3 AM.

RE: Scripting Contest - Final Strech by NiteMare on 12-20-2006 at 08:13 AM

quote:
Originally posted by Matty
With last minute testing from EllyJelly I managed to get it off just in time.

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me too:P
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RE: Scripting Contest - Final Strech by John Anderton on 12-20-2006 at 08:28 AM

I submitted mine 3 mins before the deadline :)

RE: Scripting Contest - Final Strech by BraydenP on 12-20-2006 at 10:16 AM

Hello,

My email has stopped working so I could not submit my last script.

Thanks,

BraydenP.