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Hi,
I saw the imporvements in custom names at mess.be and I must say that I love 'em especially the thing that you can now have both custom names and nicknames at the same time. But there is something that I think can still be done to make them look this feature a lot better. I just attached a picture of the concept. Please consider this Patchou
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I really like that idea. It would be good if it could be done.

That looks cool, but I'm affraid it's not possible (as far as i know).

I'm not sure if that kind of display will work on the client itself, and if it does there'll be many bugs. What would be possible (and less chance of bugs) would be the custom name and then the real name with a dash after it, and obviously an option to do this.

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Originally posted by Jaguar
That looks cool, but I'm affraid it's not possible (as far as i know).

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you're not a programmer. how can you know?

since the introducing of those ui files everything is possible

multiple line nicknames can be displayed on the contact list by patching the uifiles afaik

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Originally posted by tugrussel
em especially the thing that you can now have both custom names and nicknames at the same time.

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That was already possible since a very long time. Use the (!N) tag (or (!M) tag for that matter) in your custom name.

see: http://www.msgplus.net/help_cmdtag.php

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Originally posted by Anubis
What would be possible (and less chance of bugs) would be the custom name and then the real name with a dash after it, and obviously an option to do this.

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See my comment to tugrussel; Use the (!N) and (!M) tag to make the custom name the way you want it.

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Originally posted by CookieRevised

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Originally posted by tugrussel
em especially the thing that you can now have both custom names and nicknames at the same time.

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That was already possible since a very long time. Use the (!N) tag (or (!M) tag for that matter) in your custom name.

see: http://www.msgplus.net/help_cmdtag.php

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Originally posted by Anubis
What would be possible (and less chance of bugs) would be the custom name and then the real name with a dash after it, and obviously an option to do this.

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See my comment to tugrussel; Use the (!N) and (!M) tag to make the custom name the way you want it.

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that gave me an idea. how about adding a (!LINEBREAK) tag, so that you can add a line break and extra formatting to gain this effect ?

Anyways, if this feature was to be made than this would make custom names even cooler. It would go nicely with the already annouced coloured custom names feature.

Im pretty sure each item in a list box (in this case the contact list) has a set height, so unless Patchou can change this to make each item double its height I doubt it'll be possible to have 2 lines for each contact.