Shoutbox

Since sometimes you will require signing in in order to check whether a part of your skin works or not, this is of course very difficult to do if you don't have an internet connection. So what if some sort of tool was made that allows you to "sign in" to a fake msn, and you would be able to look at all the elements of a contact list, various windows, conversations, etc - I would think that would be a very useful tool for skin developers if it were made.

Useful but hard, Something in my head is screaming Office Live Communicator but i don't know why at all

this could be a good tool especially if it could simulate multiple versions of messenger that way you wouldnt have to uninstall one messenger and install another just to test your skins.

Good idea. Would also save signing in and out multiple times.

Just get a separate account for testing only, or use an old one etc and sign in as offline, you can add your normal email and use that to test pop ups and convo windows with etc

question: theres no way to have more than one version of messenger installed on a single pc so how do you test across multiple versions without having to constantly install and uninstall various versions of messenger?

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Originally posted by stuartbennett
question: theres no way to have more than one version of messenger installed on a single pc so how do you test across multiple versions without having to constantly install and uninstall various versions of messenger?

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Question: do you not use plus or just too naive to look in the preferrences?
Oh ok, my bad, misunderstood.

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Originally posted by Oxy

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Originally posted by stuartbennett
question: theres no way to have more than one version of messenger installed on a single pc so how do you test across multiple versions without having to constantly install and uninstall various versions of messenger?

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Question: do you not use plus or just too naive to look in the preferrences?

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ya, that feature opens up the same version of messenger, not a different version =/

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Originally posted by Oxy

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Originally posted by stuartbennett
question: theres no way to have more than one version of messenger installed on a single pc so how do you test across multiple versions without having to constantly install and uninstall various versions of messenger?

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Question: do you not use plus or just too naive to look in the preferrences?

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the options in plus's preferences enable me to use multiple instances of messenger so i can sign in with say 2 or 3 different accounts at the same time but if im doing that all on one pc each instance will still only be the messenger 8.5 i cannot have 8.0, 8.1 and 8.5 all installed on the same pc and run all 3 versions simultaniously atleast as far as i know, i have just downloaded installed for 8.0 and 8.1 so if you can tell me how to have all 3 versions of messenger installed on a single pc and run them all side by side i would be more than happy to test the skin im developing on all those 3 versions.

Idea may be nice but it is also as good as totally impossible.

Especially if you want something which simulates multiple versions without installing/uninstalling Messenger.

You actually would end up recreating each and every Messenger from scratch. Everything would exactly be the same, except for the connection part.

Thus all this is not possible.

A more "easier" (read: very relative easy, aka: still extremely hard) way is to create a program which simulates the protocol/internet traffic. A proxy so to speak, but which runs locally on your computer as the backbone server to witch the existing messenger programs can connect.

Such a local protocol/switchboard server would be usefull for testing certain parts of Plus! too (and translating for example), etc. Although it would never be able to replace the real thing of course.

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Anyways, to be realistic, such a tool will never be made. Or will never be practical to use. The best thing you can do is as you've always done: connecting to the real thing and testing everything on the real thing.