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Floating Contacts SNAPPING by BaDo0o0r on 12-30-2006 at 08:26 PM

Hello, this is my first post here, can anybody help me with how i can disable the snapping function of floating contacts on desktop. Even if it takes me to modify the script or something. ANYTHING please. Thank you in advanced.

RE: Floating Contacts SNAPPING by Oxy on 12-30-2006 at 08:30 PM

Well, without editing plus! itself, i dont think it's possible..
why do you want it? maybe theres an alternative?

RE: Floating Contacts SNAPPING by BaDo0o0r on 12-30-2006 at 08:33 PM

well iam a very picky person on how my desktop looks like :P umm i dont think there is an alternative. i Just need to disable snapping. I already got access to the script itself n all, but i dont wana mess myself in there since i have no idea where is the snapping function.

RE: Floating Contacts SNAPPING by Oxy on 12-30-2006 at 08:38 PM

quote:
Originally posted by BaDo0o0r
well iam a very picky person on how my desktop looks like
im pretty sure anything can be done with positioning, just its a bit fiddlely. :P
RE: Floating Contacts SNAPPING by CookieRevised on 12-30-2006 at 08:39 PM

quote:
Originally posted by BaDo0o0r
Hello, this is my first post here, can anybody help me with how i can disable the snapping function of floating contacts on desktop. Even if it takes me to modify the script or something. ANYTHING please. Thank you in advanced.
The floating contacts have got nothing todo with scripts or plugins. Floating contacts are an instristic part of Messenger Plus!.

In Messenger Plus! Live, to disable the snapping feature, hold CTRL down while you're moving them around.

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quote:
Originally posted by .OxY
Well, without editing plus! itself, i dont think it's possible..
why do you want it? maybe theres an alternative?
It is nice you try to help, but please don't help if you don't know the answer ;)
RE: Floating Contacts SNAPPING by BaDo0o0r on 12-30-2006 at 08:40 PM

Wow, Thank you! i never thought it would turn out as simple as that!

RE: Floating Contacts SNAPPING by CookieRevised on 12-30-2006 at 08:52 PM

PS (still for Messenger Plus! Live):

  • If you middle-click a floating contact, they will temporarly dissapear (8secs by default) so you can click on the window underneath.

  • To set the global options for the floating contact windows you can go to:
    Plus! > Preferences > Messenger > Contacts on Desktop

  • Individual options for each floating contact window can be further tweaked by right-clicking the floating contact > Display Settings.

  • Then there are two registry tweaks which you can set in:
    HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Patchou\Messenger Plus! Live\<your_email>\Preferences

    FloatChatFlashColor
    A DWORD value (by default -1) which is the color used to flash the background of floating contact windows when a new message is recieved. By default, the background color of the window is used to compute a darker or lighter color. This is a COLORREF value.

    A COLORREF value is the hexadecimal representation of an RGB in the form RRGGBB, where RR is the hexadecimal value for the red component, GG for the green and BB for blue.
    eg: white is: FFFFFF
          black is: 000000
          gray is: C0C0C0
          red is: FF0000
          blue is: 0000FF
          yellow is: FFFF00
          etc

    FloatHideTempo
    A DWORD value (by default 8000) which is the delay, in milliseconds, used when floating contact windows are temporarily hidden when middle-clicking on them. The windows are automatically shown back after this delay expires. The range of acceptable values is 200 to 3,600,000.

    More details here.