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Its my new Plus! nick formatter, I am not just copying the other ones, it is genuinely better than them
And I had some work done on it ages ago, ever since Chrono changed his screen name to have formatting codes in it. Let me know what you think.

http://www.hotmailstuff.com/bettername.htm

Wow now that IS a nice program ! Always giving U great ideas ( Without my knowledge, but what the hell )

I would like to give U a great idea I have got, Ill talk to U on MSN

xDDDDD

I dont know why people want that XP gay style on their nicknames.

Good looking program, and a nice intuitive interface. I like it, but I'm not jumping to get a nick that blinds people if they look at it from 2 feet close range .

Greetz

ginge, great program! However your program does lack a feature from Gradient. The ability to set a gradient to the background text. At the moment, you can only select a solid colour for the background text. Look forward to the implementation of the new feature.

I realise it needs this, and the only problem is the user interface, getting it to do a real time preview with a background gradient is a lot harder, although I think I can with quite a bit of effort.

For the moment, you have a choice, either no real time preview of backgrounds but the ability to do gradients (not individual colours though), or wait a bit longer and have proper realtime preview, as you do with the foreground text.

btw. if anyone knows how to set the background colour of an individual character in a rich text control let me know

Looks like a great program ginge although I was wonding is the program fully integrated with Messenger or is it a stand alone app?

Currently it is a standalone app, you get the dialog I have a screenshot of and that's it.

In the future it will move into BetterMSN, hopefully for the next release or the one after than, anyway within a month at the very most. I may continue to maintain it as a separate program as well, depending on what people want (people - tell me what you want)

If Patchou wants it, or the source code, or any pieces from it, he is welcome to them. It is actually released under the GPL (if you want to steal the code you really should read what this does) and the source code is freely available to anyone, even competing projects - either email me, or get it off CVS at http://sourceforge.net/projects/better-msn

I think since you've already written it that if Patchou could add it to Messenger Plus! that would be too sweet.

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Originally posted by Captain Canada
I think since you've already written it that if Patchou could add it to Messenger Plus! that would be too sweet.

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Patchou told us that Colour nick names are not supported, so I doubt he would add it to Plus...