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Originally posted by gfelice
It could be usefull to change our username seen by other persons depending on the PC on wich we are working.
Example:
if I'm connected with my MSN account from home, I would like that other persons see my name like "Gfelice at home".
When I login from my office, I would like that other persons see my name like "Gfelice at work".
Probably the only thing needed is a file where to store the desidered Username to display from the PC. If none has been indicated, the default one is used.
Is it possible to have this feature in one of next upgrade?
As said by DJKAL, this is best to be added in MSN Messenger itself. Not only because then you don't need to install Plus! on every PC you'd use, but if it was added in MSN Messenger itself, changes are you then can set the name prior to signing in. Thus you could make the suggestion to Microsoft if you want:
http://messenger.msn.com/help/contactus.aspx
All other solutions would require an addon to be installed on every PC you'd use and you need to sign in first and only then set your nick name.
I suspect this would not be a big problem for you, but it does mean that in order to add it to Messenger Plus!, Messenger Plus! (or a plugin) needs to do more than simply storing the desired nickname. eg: it needs to detect when you sign in (only for the first time).
In order to simulate the change of your nickname before singing in, you need to sign in as "Appear Offline". If you do that, you can change the nick and your contacts will not see this nickchange until you actually change your status to something else.
Now, if you don't want to always go to the MSN Messenger preferences and copy/paste your desired nickname you can use the
Quick Texts of Messenger Plus! to do it for you. So make a Quick Text, at work, like this (
Plus! > Preferences > Message Helpers > Quick Texts):
Quick Text Message: /nick this is my desired name at work
Quick Text Alias: /atwork
Whenever you have signed in, you can use this quick text command /atwork which will automatically set your nickname.
(note: a plugin can do roughly the same, but it must directly use the Messenger API instead. If made properly, it would be full automatic though.)
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Originally posted by groessl35
I don't think you'd have to have your friends get plus!... I think you could just have something change the toast to what you set.... But of course I don't know if this can be done or not... sounds possible since you can already change toasts with some plugins.
DJKAL meant with "your friends pc's" the pc's used by gfelice to sign in if he is at a friend's house, not the pc's of his contacts.
Also, toasts have got nothing to do with this.
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} and it would only be filling PLUS! with un-neccassarty stuffs.
