Shoutbox

Hello everyone,

for those who have better things to do than read my posts in the General Chit Chat forum, I thought I should keep you informed of the progress of Messenger Plus! 3.

I'm still working every hour of every day, every day of the week on the next major release of your favorite add-on (at least, hope it is ). It seems that this new version will bring a lot more than I originally expected. GFD is also working hard to make Messenger Plus! 2 look like some kind of joke in comparison. For those reasons, I think we should be realistic and don't expect the final release before mid-April. Beta testing should begin in about a week (please don't request to be a beta tester, I already know to whom I'll send the beta) and if everything goes well, the software will get translated and everyone will enjoy Messenger Plus! Spring 2004 .

I'll also take this moment to brief you about a new "feature" I just completed. Some of you won't see the point but some others will probably be very happy to read that: Messenger Plus! can now be installed on limited accounts that don't have administrator priviledges. The new setup automatically detects the situation so you won't have any extra effort to put when you want to install Plus! on a public access point or at school. Oh, and yeah, the setup has been completely redone, it now supports every language (such as Chinese), automatically detects the language of the user when first used, etc...

I sincerely hope you'll like all this; I keep trying to focus on doing a quality product without lame&useless features. You'll be the ones who will be judging the result in a month from now and I'm doing everything possible not to disapoint anyone .

Have a nice week!
Patchou


Screen-shot of the week... here you can see the new multi-format panel (CTRL+R).
You can also see the new Plus! icon in the toolbar.. you'll see, it's very handy (this one and the other...).

Excellent work Patchou

I'm really looking forward to the next release and i am sure both you and GFD will do a great job.

The 'limited account installation' is a good idea for the users who cannot install it because they arent Administrators.. But for example if you were a network admin at school (and most schools have regulations and policies on software installation) it could become a nightmare...

Just my bit.

Edited by Patchou: the new setup won't try anything doggy. If you block write access to HKCU for example, it won't be able to do anything.. the goal is not to bypass every security measure possible, just to give some help

good work patchou

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of your favorite add-on (at least, hope it is ).

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of course it is

the limited account installation, as chris said, is a good idea. with this, plus will be used in more places and by more users.

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Screen-shot of the week... here you can see the new multi-format panel (CTRL+R).
You can also see the new Plus! icon in the toolbar.. you'll see, it's very handy (this on and the other...).

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nice screen shot, but can you close the [­img] tag?
that panel seems very useful and the plus icon looks very nice.

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the final release before mid-April.

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that's not a very good date for me, anyway, I'm looking foward to the release

w00t w00t!!! looking awesome patch cant wait!!!!

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your favorite add-on (at least, hope it is )

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of course it is!!!

Can't Want for the best add-on ever. =D april is perfect. lol. a great early b-day gift for me. =D and what does the plus icon do??? or are you gonna keep that a surprise. AND i hope mp3 will work will msn 6.2

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completely redone, it now supports every language (such as Chinese),

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Finally We can see our work in installation and I can tell my friend "oh well, the installation is Chinese, just follow it" instead of "oh yeah, yeah, choose the 'Automa-'...oh yeah, the one begins with 'A'... yeah click 'OK'..."blah blah blah

Keep on hard work Patch and GFD

sweet!
can't wait for the new release, sounds really great!!
keep up the good work Patchou!!

So it will make Plus! 2 look like a joke? Man, this thing is going to be sweet

Thanks for keeping us informed. I think you know there are lots of people more than a little keen to see it get released.

Good luck to you and the beta testers

This sure is exciting news... Can't wait to see it in action!

Good luck with the code and design, Patchou and GFD.


BTW, are you going to wait for MSN Messenger 6.2 (April 22 I believe) before releasing MP3?

BTW2, if you already made the installer support specific accounts, it'd be nice if it had an advanced option to install Plus! for the current user only (even if I do have admin rights).

(Don't you love the way I "smuggle" feature requests?)

BTW3, I have a new slogan: MP3 Reinvented.

make msg.plus! 2 look like a ?
that sounds promisingly and i know you will make it really !
big thanks for your hard work - i hope you know we all appreciate it without posting it in every thread

edit » ahh, i forgot to mention this installation thingy. a friend of mine asked me if it is intended that installations of msgplus only works if the path to it's installation directory already exists.
he tried to install it like this (example)
c:\program files\123\msgplus\ (brown=new folders through msgplus installation)
but the installation failed with something like "not enough space". he added the folder "123" manually restarted the installation and it works without errormessages.
hope you get what i mean - i'm not a programmer and forgot the word he named this behavior