Shoutbox

I've renamed all o fmy contacts and it's all fine and I'm happy with it.

However, after the cutom name I have attached the original name and their email adress. This, again, is fine - but I was just wondering if the rename feature was capale of aligning each attached text for each contact. Doesn't make much sense so here's what I mean:

CURRENTLY -

contact 1 (contact 1 msn name) [contact 1 email]
contact 3636363 (contact 3636363 msn name) [contact 3636363 email]
contact 444 (contact 444 msn name) [contact 444 email]

WHAT I WANT -


contact 1                 (contact 1 msn name)                [contact 1 email]
contact 3636363     (contact 3636363 msn name)    [contact 3636363 email]
contact 444             (contact 444 msn name)            [contact 444 email]

I hope that clears it up, although I doubt it is possible.
Thanks

EDIT: When I was writing this post my 'what i want' section had them all lined up correctly but the final post has slightly adjusted their places. So imagine that each colum is aligned properly

so basically, you want it placed in a table? I don't think this is possible right now. Perhaps with a plugin.

Well I didn't think of it as a table, but I guess in effect yes, just without the table being visible.

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Originally posted by kierant
contact 1 (contact 1 msn name) [contact 1 email]
contact 3636363 (contact 3636363 msn name) [contact 3636363 email]
contact 444 (contact 444 msn name) [contact 444 email]

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since the first part is your own writing (the "contact 5464" part) you can add as many spaces as you want. This is the only way you can use to get a sort of alignment for the second part starting with the msn name.

PS: You may or may not know this, but you don't need to re-enter the contact's msn name, nor email; you can use the special tags (!N) and (!M) respectivly for that. eg: custom name for contact X: blahblah ((!N)) [(!M)]

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Originally posted by CookieRevised

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Originally posted by kierant
contact 1 (contact 1 msn name) [contact 1 email]
contact 3636363 (contact 3636363 msn name) [contact 3636363 email]
contact 444 (contact 444 msn name) [contact 444 email]

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since the first part is your own writing (the "contact 5464" part) you can add as many spaces as you want. This is the only way you can use to get a sort of alignment for the second part starting with the msn name.

PS: You may or may not know this, but you don't need to re-enter the contact's msn name, nor email; you can use the special tags (!N) and (!M) respectivly for that. eg: custom name for contact X: blahblah ((!N)) [(!M)]

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Thanks for the reply. Yep I did consider just adding spaces for each contact and obviously this would somewhat reach the desired effect. However, for the number of contacts that I have on my list it would just be too time consuming and not worth the bother.

And I did know about the special tags, but thanks anyway. I just edited the Custom names in the Plus Tweak app to include the tags for each contact (I'm not crazy enough to go through each contact and add their name and email individually!! )

If Patchou added support for the tab character via the '\t' shortcut used in C-style languages...

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Originally posted by kierant
If Patchou added support for the tab character via the '\t' shortcut used in C-style languages...

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good idea there

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Originally posted by Idium

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Originally posted by kierant
If Patchou added support for the tab character via the '\t' shortcut used in C-style languages...

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good idea there

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Idea is good, but it would not be so strait forward to implement.

The contact list isn't a textfield/box where tab locations are sometimes in some programs predefined.

It is a listview control. And in a listview control there are no tab positions 'by default'. And I certainly doubt MS made extra tab positions in MSN Messenger.

In order to add tab positions (so the tab character can be used), Patchou needs to apply them to the listview control, and there is also the question: how many and where to add them... It isn't as strait forward as saying each 8 characters either (default in many programs) as controls in windows most often use proportional fonts (or was it not-proportional?). Tabs like that are not measured in characters, but in dialog units...

Nevertheless, the idea is good, and doable (but not that strait forward).