Shoutbox

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Originally posted by CookieRevised
Idea may be nice but it is also as good as totally impossible.

Especially if you want something which simulates multiple versions without installing/uninstalling Messenger.

You actually would end up recreating each and every Messenger from scratch. Everything would exactly be the same, except for the connection part.

Thus all this is not possible.

A more "easier" (read: very relative easy, aka: still extremely hard) way is to create a program which simulates the protocol/internet traffic. A proxy so to speak, but which runs locally on your computer as the backbone server to witch the existing messenger programs can connect.

Such a local protocol/switchboard server would be usefull for testing certain parts of Plus! too (and translating for example), etc. Although it would never be able to replace the real thing of course.

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Anyways, to be realistic, such a tool will never be made. Or will never be practical to use. The best thing you can do is as you've always done: connecting to the real thing and testing everything on the real thing.

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im happy to test on the real thing, all i was saying is both my pc and my dads pc only have 8.5 installed i dont want all the hassle of uninstalling and installing different versions of messenger everytime i make a skin just to test it works on that version, nor do i want to by 2 pcs for testing purposes and keep having to buy a new pc every time a version of mesenger is released.

which is why unless it becomes possible to install multiple versions of the messenger software onto a single pc for testing purposes any skins i devolpe will only be compatable with whatever version of messenger i have installed at the time which at present is 8.5.

if anyone knows a way to have multiple versions of messenger installed on the same pc and run all 3 versions simultaniously then id love to hear about it.