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Originally posted by riahc4
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Originally posted by CookieRevised
The only thing I find usefull and interesting at first sight is the suggestion for intellisense for commands.
Although some things are hard to do. Eg: your example of /sendmsg isn't the best one because opening a 'small' window with contacts to send a message to will be troubelsome if you have like 200 contacts. However, it is another thing when it is implemented as an auto-complete and only after a maximum number of contacts are filtered already by what you have typed, the popup will show. Because a popup as large as your screen isn't very helpfull.
And now that I think about it, from the top of my head I don't know any commands (except for something like a new /status command or whatever) which would actually benefit from such a popup window. For most existing commands it is either pointless to list something (as the list would be way too big) or there isn't anything to list at all.
But the idea is nice for possible future commands. But for the existing commands there isn't any command which would need it.
If I was programming Plus!, I would have to think about it but for example (again this goes back to the keyboard/mouse thing), lets say I have a user on my contact list with the email abc@aol.com and another with acd@aol.com. I would type
/sendmsg
A small tooltip would popup saying this is for sending messages without opening a window
then a space which would popup a small list with all of my contacts.
I type:
/sendmsg a
and now Im reduced to a list with with 2 contacts: abc@aol.com and acd@aol.com.
Obviously, due to the letters order abc@aol.com would be selected first. I could either hit tab (or enter) which would automatically put
/sendmsg abc@aol.com |
with the "|" repersenting where my cursor is at and another small tooltip saying enter the message you wish to send
This is a small example. It can be expanded to shift+down to select alot of contacts. Using commas such as
/sendmsg abc@aol.com,acd@aol.com "hey!"
and stuff like that.
Chris4riahc4, thank you for the example but that is exactly what "intellisense" means... And with that you have seemed to have missed the point of my reply a bit and thus haven't replied without anything new. You can not have a "small list of contacts" when you have like 200 contacts on your list.
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Originally posted by riahc4
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Originally posted by CookieRevised
PS: There are already many threads with lists of suggestions for a future Plus! version. Why didn't you read and posted in those? This thread will simply turn into yet another list of often repeated and already discussed stuff. 
Could'nt find any for Plus! Live 5. Sorry 
Don't tell me you searched for "Messenger Plus! 5"... Of course you aren't going to find much specific for "Plus! 5". Suggestions are always made for _future_ versions. Take a look in this very same subforum, there are hundreds of suggestions in various threads and there are several big threads with complete lists of suggestions. It is not because a thread was made before the last version of Plus! that it wouldn't be about a suggestion for a version further in the future, like Plus!5.
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Originally posted by riahc4
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Originally posted by Patchou
Messenger Plus! 5.0 will be the start of many new sites, we just have to create the architecture now, piece of cake 
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Many new sites? Create the architecture?
Those are the last phrases I would have thought of to see in this thread
many sites = new website and subsites with exciting new things. The architecture = what you have called the "API"; the foundations of the program and the overall structure. (API is actually something else than what you mean).
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