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RE: Status Icons
It's very understandable that most people think it is for the taskbar button though. It is indeed it is a bit misleading.

Then again, when you do have tabbed chats enabled, you would only have 1 taskbar button for all the chats anyways. So the usefullness of seeing the status of your contacts by glimpsing the taskbar buttons is already a bit less as you would only be able to see the status of the contact in the current focused chat, and not the statusses of the others.

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Originally posted by pleasehelpme
It is only a limitation within Plus! that the group icon for tabs cannot be changed in the taskbar, to resemble the current status icon for the current open chat.
It is not so much a limitation though because there are ways.

That icon can be changed (by changing the title bar icon of that hidden window used to group the chats, see my other posts), but the problem is that you need something to detect what chat window has the focus, aka on which tab you have pressed because the taskbar button icon must change each time you click on another tab.

For that you need to subclass either the chat windows (to detect when they come in focus) or either the hidden window of Plus! used by tabbed chats (to detect a change in the title of the hidden window which you can then use to derive which chat came in focus). And to do the later you need some other advanced stuff too because you need to detect when tabbed chatting is enabled/disabled.

But unfortunatly it is not possible to subclass with the current scripting engine without the use of an external DLL.

Thus, it is all possible in a way though, it only means a lot of advanced scripting and writing of such an external DLL. And that takes a lot of time and work. Much more than the time and work put into the current 'statusicon' scripts as they are all very basic straithforward and short scripts. Unfortunalty most of the scripters who would be capable of doing something like that are busy with other projects.

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This post was edited on 11-23-2009 at 02:48 PM by CookieRevised.
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Status Icons - by freddy12 on 11-15-2008 at 02:01 AM
RE: Status Icons - by freddy12 on 11-26-2008 at 03:02 AM
RE: Status Icons - by matty on 11-26-2008 at 04:50 AM
RE: Status Icons - by prashker on 11-26-2008 at 05:10 AM
RE: Status Icons - by matty on 11-26-2008 at 04:29 PM
RE: Status Icons - by freddy12 on 11-27-2008 at 01:25 PM
RE: Status Icons - by matty on 11-27-2008 at 02:17 PM
RE: RE: Status Icons - by CookieRevised on 10-06-2009 at 12:00 PM
RE: Status Icons - by matty on 11-30-2008 at 09:50 PM
RE: Status Icons - by Basilis on 12-01-2008 at 01:13 PM
RE: Status Icons - by tmt64 on 08-23-2009 at 03:16 AM
RE: Status Icons - by Spongshga on 08-31-2009 at 04:47 PM
RE: Status Icons - by matty on 08-31-2009 at 05:01 PM
RE: Status Icons - by Cerbus on 09-19-2009 at 03:01 PM
RE: Status Icons - by matty on 09-21-2009 at 12:35 PM
RE: Status Icons - by Spunky on 09-22-2009 at 12:00 AM
RE: Status Icons - by Cerbus on 09-22-2009 at 11:44 AM
RE: Status Icons - by matty on 09-22-2009 at 12:47 PM
RE: Status Icons - by Cerbus on 09-22-2009 at 12:55 PM
RE: Status Icons - by Spunky on 09-22-2009 at 06:23 PM
RE: Status Icons - by matty on 09-22-2009 at 06:33 PM
RE: Status Icons - by pleasehelpme on 11-21-2009 at 07:00 PM
RE: Status Icons - by Veggie on 11-21-2009 at 07:17 PM
RE: Status Icons - by pleasehelpme on 11-21-2009 at 07:23 PM
RE: Status Icons - by CookieRevised on 11-22-2009 at 02:55 PM
RE: RE: Status Icons - by pleasehelpme on 11-22-2009 at 03:32 PM
RE: Status Icons - by CookieRevised on 11-23-2009 at 02:44 PM
RE: RE: Status Icons - by pleasehelpme on 11-23-2009 at 03:20 PM


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