There is no such option in Plus! that shows you as "idle" on demand, it can only be done via scripting as in Idle Liar by TheGuruSupremacy.
For the change to busy, you must have "Change my status to: Busy" enabled when locking Messenger. Plus!> Preferences & Options> Messenger> Messenger Lock.
This post was edited on 03-19-2009 at 10:46 PM by Moh.
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