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...).