Messenger Plus! Live 4.85.386 (19/07/2010)
- Microsoft recently released a beta version of Messenger
2010/2011 (Wave 4). Although Messenger Plus! is not compatible with the
new
version yet, this new release properly detects the beta and do some
basic initialisation for things like the auto-update feature.
- When the new Messenger beta is detected, Messenger Plus! adds
its usual "Software not loaded" menu in the contact list. From this
menu, the compatibility window can be displayed to display some
information and, more importantly, to let more advanced users
disable "safe mode".
- When safe mode is disabled with the beta, Messenger Plus!
activates some of its functionalities. Using Messenger
Plus! in this mode may cause all sorts of errors to occur, no
support will be given for beta versions of Messenger.
- If you experience issues after disabling safe mode, use the Maintenance wizard
(available from the uninstaller) to revert Messenger Plus! to
its normal state.
- The Repair Wizard of the uninstaller now resets the "safe mode"
setting of Messenger Plus! even if user preferences are not erased.
Messenger Plus! Live 4.84.384 (06/06/2010)
- The move to Visual Studio 2010 caused Messenger Plus! to stop
working for a minority of users. The resource DLL of Messenger Plus!
has been modified to solve this issue.
Messenger Plus! Live 4.84.382 (18/04/2010)
- Translations have been updated.
- A bug has been fixed in the Promotion System.
- Messenger Plus! has been reorganised for the development of
Plus!5. Everything is now compiled with Visual Studio 2010 and
managed in TFS.
Messenger Plus! Live 4.83.380 (17/03/2010)
- The setup has been modified to be compatible with project K
(more about that soon :).
- The toolbar installation program is now downloaded by the setup
dynamically.
Messenger Plus! Live 4.83.378 (14/02/2010)
- The new Promotion System has been improved internally to support
more parameters.
Messenger Plus! Live 4.83.376 (15/01/2010)
- Fixed: in some cases, the Sweet IM add-on caused contact list
problems when installed alongside Messenger Plus!.
- A toolbar is now included in every new download of Messenger
Plus! in place of the old sponsor program. The toolbar has its own
uninstaller and works like any other normal proper toolbar in your
browser (it can be enabled, disabled, etc...). Its installation is
still entirely optional.
Messenger Plus! Live 4.83.375 (18/12/2009)
- Fixed: the new Promotion System is now fully operational.
Messenger Plus! Live 4.83.374 (10/12/2009)
- Fixed: the Messenger Plus! icon logo in the contact list and in
the chat windows is displayed incorrectly (mirrored) on Hebrew and
Arabic versions of Windows Live Messenger.
- A new Promotion System has been included within Messenger Plus!
for preliminary testing. This system will display promotional
material in Messenger's windows by adding buttons in existing
Messenger's button bars. These buttons are country specific and
different buttons may appear in different countries. This system is
what will finally let us put an end to the old sponsor program in
the least intrusive manner. If you don't care about such things,
uncheck the "Show me promotions" option in the Customize!
preferences panel.
Messenger Plus! Live 4.83.372 (17/10/2009)
- Tested and compatible with the latest Messenger update:
14.0.8089.726.
- All the code related to the 2009 Contest has been removed from
this version. Thanks again for playing!
- Improved network hooking mechanism. For some people, this will
improve how Messenger Plus! catches various network events (used for
notifications, the event viewer, ...). For other people, this will
solve a rare problem where Messenger crashes upon sign-in (Messenger
Plus! will try to detect the faulty behaviour caused by buggy
network software and will switch to an alternate hooking method
automatically when Messenger is restarted).
- Messenger tends to slow down when improper compatibility
settings are set for msnmsgr.exe. The setup of Messenger Plus! now
resets the compatibility settings set for Messenger in Windows Vista
and above.
- Added a new preference setting in the "Customize!" panel to let
you opt-out of any current and future promotion organised with Messenger Plus!
(like contests or various promotional notifications).
- Fixed: Messenger Plus! is not compatible with BitDefender Total
Security 2010. This will probably fix some other similar
incompatibilities as well. Note that as a result, keyboard shortcuts
in Messenger Plus! windows (like pressing Tab to move to the next
control) may stop working and the Messenger systray icon may not be
replaced by Messenger Lock.
- Fixed: the "Enhance copy/paste" feature in chat windows inserts
an Arabic B character instead of an asterisk at the beginning of new
messages.
- Fixed: sign-in notifications in Messenger Plus! (Event Viewer,
scripts, ...) aren't working as they should in Windows XP with
Messenger 8.5 since September due to a protocol change.
- Scripts. Fixed: MsgPlus::DownloadFile() does not accept user
names and passwords with a @ character.
Messenger Plus! Live 4.82.368 (30/06/2009)
- Messenger Plus! is now entirely compatible with Windows 7 (RC
minimum) :
- The Messenger Lock feature has been fixed. A new icon is
added to the tray in Windows 7 if an unlock keyboard shortcut is
not specified.
- The default Messenger Lock icon in Windows 7 has been
changed to blend in better in the new UI (hourglass:
shell32.dll,323).
- Note: the jump list of Messenger will work properly when
using the Multiple-Accounts (polygamy) option but you'll get
the options for only one of your Messenger clients.
- Tabbed chats display a proper preview (peek) picture with a
list of currently opened chats. Chats waiting for input are
colorized in the thumbnail and Alt+Tab or Win+Tab combinations
also display the proper picture.
- A couple of other minor fixes here and there to make the
Windows 7 experience complete.
- The settings of your scripts and skins can now be exported from
the preferences panel and re-imported back.
- Only the settings of the scripts/skins are exported and not
the scripts/skins themselves.
- As far as scripts are concerned, only the scripts that put
their settings where they're supposed to (see
MsgPlus.ScriptRegPath) will be concerned by this new feature.
- This release is contest-ready!
- In this version, you will see a new golden icon in your
Messenger toolbar. Those who participated in the contest 2 years
ago will probably remember what this is.
- A "Play and Win" menu has been added in the contact list.
- The 2009 Contest is not open yet, it will be in about a week
from now. Remember to give it a try in July!
- The bug present in beta versions of IE8 has been fixed in IE8
Final. The workaround for displaying long chat logs in the Log
Viewer has been removed.
- Navigation arrows are now added in Windows 7 for tabbed chats,
below the Aero Peek thumbnail in the task bar. Use them to switch
from one chat to the next.
- Fixed: the background of the title bars of Messenger Plus!
windows does not display correctly with bright colors.
- When a directory is selected in the Log Viewer, the log
currently displayed is removed from the screen.
- Fixed: default Messenger sounds for event notifications and new
external emails aren't played by Messenger Plus! in Messenger 2009.
- Scripts. Fixed: scripts may be automatically started and marked
as "running" the first time Messenger is restarted after a script
has been updated, even if the script is disabled.
- Skins. Fixed: new border areas specified in <Dimensions> do not work
in Messenger 2009 Final.
- Skins: Fixed: the <FrameCount> element in <MetaData> is not used
if specified without any other meta data.
- A couple of stability fixes. Runaway, from the river to the
street.
Messenger Plus! Live 4.81.358 (22/03/2009)
- Directories and files in the log viewer are now sorted
chronologically, when possible.
- Added "OverrideImgTransfer" registry setting. If set to true
(1), Messenger Plus! forces a JPG file to be sent in a file transfer
when a picture is pasted in a conversation. Especially useful if you
do not like Photo Sharing in Messenger 2009.
- Fixed: custom emoticons that are assigned keyboard shortcuts
such as "!" prevent emotion sounds to be sent properly.
- In order to accelerate the uninstaller, scripts and skins
removed during uninstallation are now deleted instead of moved to
the Recycle Bin.
- Fixed: Log Viewer does not display long chat logs properly when
Internet Explorer 8 is installed (I consider this to be a bug in the
way IE8 emulates IE7 for WebBrowser controls with Transitional
XHTML).
- Fixed: pressing Ctrl+A in a multi-line edit box doesn't have any
effect.
- Scripts. ChatWnd::SendMessage() can now be used with an empty
message parameter to send the text currently present in the typing
area.
- Fixed: the Emotion Sound panel is not properly placed in the
chat window when 20 sounds or more are displayed at the same time.
- Fixed: some preferences windows and skin option panels may not
be properly scrolled with the middle button of some mouses.
- A new way to support Messenger Plus! will now be distributed in
some versions of the setup.
- Thanks to Ask.com, you now have the option to change your
home page and default search options without installing any
program on your computer (apart from the uninstaller of Ask
which just reverts back your browser's settings, which you can
do yourself if you want).
- The setup of Messenger Plus! can only ask for one of both
options: the sponsor program from Circle Developement, or the
home page/search engine changes from Ask.com. Both options, of
course, are entirely optional.
- In the next couple of weeks and months, the home page
offered on plusnetwork.com will be customized and improved with
lots of features. This could turn out to be a very cool addition
to Messenger Plus! so don't hesitate to post your comments on the
forum!
Messenger Plus! Live 4.80.356 (31/01/2009)
- This version is entirely compatible with the final version of Windows Live Messenger 2009 (build 1202).
Yes, that includes chat logging, emotion sounds, skins, scripts and
so on :-).
- The "Show contacts as Idle" option will properly display
"Idle" for your contacts' status in chat windows but not in the
contact list. For that reason, an "(Idle)" indicator has been
added in the contact list's tooltip (Messenger 9 only).
- The Messenger Plus! menus displayed by buttons added in the
windows of Messenger are more properly aligned.
- Skins: when a skin that redefines the shape of a window in
Messenger is loaded in Messenger 9, the window frame present in
Vista is properly removed.
- Skins: vertical gradient colors cannot be created for
Messenger 9, only horizontal gradients are supported.
- The new UIB encoded version of the windows' styles and
definitions is completely supported by Messenger Plus!.
- For
skinners, this means that Messenger Plus! will decode the files
automatically when extracting the resources and will re-encode
them automatically when added in a skin. For everybody else,
it means Messenger Plus! will still rock in 2009! :-).
- Notes about UIB decoding: in order to make things as simple
as possible for the skin developers, Messenger Plus! generates
definition files and style files almost identical to what you
used to see in Messenger before. One of the differences you'll
notice is a <*PlusSkin*/> tag on top of each file: do not remove
it or alter it.
- Skins: if you used to write some strange exotic syntax in
your windows' files which was previously accepted and parsed by
Messenger, Messenger Plus! may not be so tolerant. The opposite
is also true as Messenger Plus! may accept things that Messenger
did not (like character escaping in strings such as "\n"). In the end, most
developers won't ever notice a difference though.
- Skins: Windows Definition files and
Windows Styles files can still be included separately in your
skins. If one
of the two files is missing, Messenger Plus! will decode
the internal UIB file in order to get the missing piece before
re-encoding everything (this may slow down Messenger a little at
the first occurrence).
- Skins: the skin trace file will now include
more precise information when a loading error occurs as Messenger Plus!
is doing the parsing itself. Also, note that if a window file
cannot be parsed properly, the original one from Messenger will
now be used instead.
- Information for all add-on and patch developers
working on Messenger: in order for you to keep on working on your
software, I have decided to allow you to encode and decode UIB files
for your own use.
- "MPTools.exe", which is available in the
Messenger Plus! directory, will take care of your UIB needs. All
you have to do is specify the source and destination files and
MPTools will do the rest.
- You have two ways to use this feature: if
your add-on/patch requires live modifications to the windows
files based on some user options, Messenger Plus! will need to
be installed on your users' computers and your software will
need to call MPTools before and after you modify the file. If
you only need fixed changes to be applied on one given version
of Messenger, you can decode, modify and re-encode the files
yourself and distribute the final UIB file which won't require
Messenger Plus! to be installed.
- Although both solutions will work perfectly
fine, doing live encoding and decoding with MPTools will always
be the recommended for many reasons, the first one being that
your add-on will benefit from all the future update
automatically and will stay compatible with the next versions of
Messenger. Note that MPTools.exe cannot be redistributed and
used on its own though, Messenger Plus! needs to be installed
for the tool to work (you can either link it from your software
or download/install it automatically, with the /Silent switch or
not, you decide).
- Check out the new "Encoding and Decoding UIB"
section of the skinning documentation for more details.
- Compatibility with all previous beta versions of Windows Live Messenger 9/14/2009
has been removed (more than a year of betas for this one!).
- Contacts from Yahoo! Messenger are now handled better by
Messenger Plus!.
- Messenger Plus! now displays many of its windows using the
specific color selected for each contact. Display pictures are also
displayed in contact related popup notifications (can be turned off
in the preferences).
- The Contact Information window now displays an animation for
animated display pictures.
- When chatting with more than 2 people, the size of the header in
chat logs is now reduced.
- When chatting in a group in Messenger 2009, whenever possible,
Messenger Plus! creates a single chat log file associated to the
group.
- The "enhance copy/paste" feature now doesn't do anything with
pictures and lets Messenger handles it.
- A new icon is displayed in tabbed chats for group chats.
- Windows 7 is now properly reported by (!VER). Messenger Plus! is
currently reported to work on this OS.
- The Multiple Accounts option (polygamy) is now compatible with
the Windows 7 jump list tasks (tasks are sent to the Messenger that
was launched in last).
- A couple of things have been improved internally to ensure the
reliability of the sound modules in Messenger Plus! (especially when
using emotion sounds).
- Emotion sounds are not automatically played anymore when
Messenger is locked.
- The Greek language is now part of the official distribution.
- Setup is now faster if many of scripts and skins are installed.
- Fixed: the Messenger Plus! icons may not be added in the
Messenger windows if a skin is enabled but failed to load.
- Fixed: spin controls in the emotion sound wizard are inversed.
- Fixed: Messenger Plus! windows don't look good when a very
bright color is selected in Messenger. The color of titles in all
windows has been darkened too.
- Fixed: in Messenger 8.5, the names of contacts that are using
Messenger 2009 may be displayed incorrectly by Messenger Plus!.
- Fixed: Messenger may crash on startup if a hooking error occurs
(problem introduced in version 4.70).
- Fixed: when several user sessions are active and Messenger Plus!
needs to restart Messenger (when importing a skin for example), the
Messengers of all the user sessions are closed.
- Fixed: "Format Codes" button not added in the the Chinese
Messenger options.
- Fixed: the password parameter for command line encryption with
LogViewer.exe requires password that have a minimum length of 4
characters.
- Fixed: /PlusSkin="" is ignored and does not prevent the current
skin to be loaded.
- The "Use the default scene" option available in chat windows is
now supported by Messenger Plus!. Note however that Messenger 2009
has a bug preventing this option to work properly sometimes when
changed and requiring the chat window to be closed and reopened.
Messenger Plus! always sticks to the option as you selected it.
- Scripts: Image elements now support GIF pictures. Use the new
AllowAnimate attribute to automatically animate the picture on
screen.
- Scripts: MsgPlus.DisplayToastContact now supports an additional
"Contact" parameter to allow Messenger Plus! to colorize the toasts
your script display according to a contact's profile.
- Scripts: added a new "ProfileColor" property to Contact objects.
You can use this to know what color is currently associated to a
specific contact (according to its Messenger profile).
- Scripts: added a new "BaseColor" property to PlusWnd objects.
Use it if you want to modify the base color of your windows, for
example, to match contact specific colors.
- Scripts and Skins: the <AllowAutoUpdate> element now also takes effect if no
Build Number or Update Id is specified.
- Scripts. Fixed: DataBloc::ReadInterfacePtr() does not work as
expected.
- Skins: the Resource Extractor has been improved for
Messenger 2009.
- The "rcanim", "rcbmp" and "rcchar" resource
identifiers are now recognized and handled properly.
- Cursors are extracted.
- Strings from "msgres" are extracted.
- Added basic consolidation mode (third check state in the
Resource Extractor window, looks like a square). Use it to produce consolidated
windows files that can be used safely in your final skin. Things
like strings are not replaced in this mode (for localisation
reasons).
- Skins: the skininfo schema file has been modified for Messenger
2009.
- Strings from "msgres" can now be modified.
- The cursors specified in "msgres" can be replaced.
- Remember that the version number of the new Messenger is
14.0 and not 9.0 (keep that in mind when writing your
<Restrictions> elements).
- Skins. Fixed: Metadata is not applied properly when replacing
pictures that did not any Metadata in the first place.
- Skins: the tabbed chat bar can now be skinned with the picture
of your choice, displayed in mosaic and colorized if required. Check
out "PlusSkin\ResGroup\TabbedChatBar" for more details.
- Note: the "MessengerPlus\TabbedChatBar"
option element has been deprecated and it is recommended that you do
not use it (it may not produce good results in Messenger 9).
- Skins. Fixed: Build and Revision can be inversed when reading
the Information\Compatibility element.
- Skins: thanks to research done by Willz, a new element named
"FrameCount" has been added to picture's Metadata. You can use it
when replacing or adding animated pictures.
- Skins: the Resource Extractor now supports the
new resource types introduced in Messenger 2009 (which are
used transparently while consolidating the windows data).
- Skins: the color map file generated by the
Resource Extractor now specifies "ref" for color ids that are
references to other colors.
- Skins: the number of encrypted RLE files the
Resource Extractor was not able to process fell from 158 in the last
beta to 2 in Messenger 2009! (and it's because those two produce an
empty result so for now, I prefer considering them as un-processed).
This special kind of RLE file has a variable size, the content is
generated dynamically with the size requested by Messenger at any
given time. Once decrypted, "_var" is attached to the name of the
file to make sure you don't forget about it when modifying the
resource (if you replace those by pictures, make sure your pictures
are big enough to avoid looking pixelized).
- Skins: added "ResetUserScenes" value in the
"Options\Messenger" element. It's considered to be "true" by default
and is used to remove the currently selected scene from all the user
profiles when a skin is selected. Disable this option if your skin
is meant to be used in conjunction with scenes.
- Skins: you can now add a "SkinOptions" element in
"PlusSkin" resource groups. Use it for conditional skinning of
Messenger Plus! resources based on the skin's properties.
- Skins: because Messenger 2009 restricts the
command ids that can be sent from sub-windows to parent windows
(like the top toolbar in the contact list), a work-around has been
added to Messenger Plus!. Instead of adding a "cmdid" attribute, you
need to add a specially formatted "accvalue" attribute. For example,
instead of cmdid=7460 you'll need to add accvalue="Messenger Plus!
CmdId: 7460".
Messenger Plus! Live 4.70.334 (09/08/2008)
- Messenger Plus! is now better prepared for the future with several
internal changes.
- New feature: you can now paste very large chunks of text and pictures
into a conversation. Messenger Plus! detects pasting operations that are not
originally supported by Messenger and, when possible, generates a temporary
file to send to the contact.
- Emotion sounds played by Messenger Plus! are now played in stereo. This
fixes problems caused by faulty hardware or drivers that do not handle mono
sound files properly (resulting in incorrect playback or no playback at
all).
- New feature: all scripts and skins can now be automatically updated!
this will ensure you always get the benefits from the latest versions of the
components you use without worrying about them.
- Almost all the current scripts and skins are supported by the
system. Update check is done once a week, as usual, and you can force a
manual check by using the /checkupdates command in any chat window.
- If an update is available, you will be notified once automatically.
If you choose not to install a particular update, Messenger Plus! won't
prompt you about it anymore unless another update is available. This was
done to remove the annoying factor of this kind of auto-update
procedure.
- This feature may be used in the future to offer exclusive new
scripts, skins and more for download. This will also help the
distribution of minor updates using delta patches.
- Script and skin developers are encouraged to use the new UpdateId
and BuildNumber information elements in their XML file to ensure proper
future updates or their products (see updated documentation).
- Of course, all of this can be disabled in the preferences.
- New "panel size" option added for the Quick Icons panel. Use it to
display more emoticons in each page of the panel.
- The (!VER) tag now correctly identifies Windows Server 2008.
- Double-clicking on a contact in the Contact List Clean-Up window now
opens the Contact Information window.
- A new page has been added at the end of the Setup to confirm that
installation was successful and to offer a link to download new skins.
- Security fix: mis-formated URLs saved in HTML chat logs can corrupt log
files (fixed previously in build 326).
- Messenger Plus! now prevents you to specify an encryption password hint
equal to the password itself.
- The Interface Tester program now supports command line arguments (use -?
for more details). External programs wanting to display a preview of
Messenger Plus! windows may want to use this.
- Fixed: skin shapes are not always properly applied.
- Fixed: invalid skin packs may display an error message twice on import.
- Scripts: added <Size> element for RichStatic controls.
- You know it's not the end...
Messenger Plus! Live 4.60.324 (19/03/2008)
- You can now filter yourself out from event logging.
- Mobile Device chat windows are now fully supported by Messenger Plus!.
- Features like Quick Texts, commands, smart tags and previous message
recall are now accessible the same way as they are in normal chat
windows.
- Logging is fully functional.
- Mobile chat windows are now tabbed too. If you prefer keeping your
mobile chats separated from one another, you can use the new
TabMobileChatWnds registry setting.
- If too many Plus! notification popups try to be displayed on screen,
Messenger Plus! queues the extra windows to be displayed later, when possible
(so that notifications aren't displayed out of screen).
- WMA sounds can now be selected for event notifications.
- Fixed: some animated GIF display pics (Messenger 9) display improperly
in the Contact Information windows.
- Fixed: /font does not work in Messenger 9 Beta.
- Fixed: some of Messenger Plus!'s own resources are loaded before the
currently enabled skin, preventing them to be modified.
- Fixed: a couple of bugs that could cause Messenger to crash in some
specific occasions. More stability! always a good thing.
- Fixed: external libraries distributed with scripts that need
registration on import (OLE or .NET) fail to register in Windows Vista with
UAC on. Messenger Plus! also makes absolutely sure now that the libraries
are properly registered before trying to start the script for the first
time.
- Fixed: notification popups from Messenger Plus! may steal the focus.
- Fixed: notification windows from Messenger Plus! don't animate depending
on your Windows settings.
- Fixed: Messenger may not lock or unlock properly when using several
Messenger accounts (polygamy) with the same shortcut specified for locking
or unlocking.
- Scripts: a new function called Interop.GetCallbackPtr() has been added.
It allows the creation of callback parameters for Windows API calls to
functions like EnumWindows.
- Scripts: mobile chat windows are now supported. The following property
has been added: ChatWnd.IsMobileChat. A new MENULOC_MOBILEWND enumeration
has been added to OnEvent_MenuClicked() and OnGetScriptMenu().
- Scripts: you can now upload files to FTP servers using the new
MsgPlus.UploadFileFTP() function. Success or failure is indicated through a
call to OnEvent_UploadFileComplete(). This new function can also be used to
check an FTP connection without uploading anything.
- Scripts: a new PlusWnd::Button_SetElementText() function has been added
to change the text of text elements defined in "custom look" buttons, check
boxes, and radio buttons.
- Scripts: added a new PlusWnd::GetElementPos() function to get the
current position of an Element (such as a Place Holder) in a window.
- Scripts: some small improvements made to the new built-in editor.
- Scripts: MsgPlus.DownloadFile now accepts two additional parameters:
Username and Password. They can be used when downloading files from ftp
servers that need authentication.
- Scripts: added a new MsgPlus.ExtractFromZIP function to allow easy
extraction of files from a ZIP archive.
- Scripts: you can now set Messenger.MyDisplayPicture to an empty string
to remove the display picture of the current user.
- Skins: the Metadata\File element for replaced images now works properly
(replaces resources of type 4006).
- Skins: a new DateRange restriction type has been added.
- You can use it
to make your skin change automatically depending on the current day, month,
or year.
- Remember that the date is analysed only when Messenger
starts.
- It is recommended to use the PlusVersion restriction as well
to prevent the date restricted groups to be automatically included in older
versions of Messenger Plus!. You can also set the top level "Version"
attribute of "SkinInfo" to 2 to prevent the whole skin from being loaded
in older incompatible versions.
- Skins: extracted pictures placed in Graphics\Pictures are now named
differently if the picture is actually a reference to another one. This mean
that for example, picture 4000_91_ref600.png is a reference to 4000_600.png
and that only the later needs to be modified in Messenger's resources.
- Skins: a new "Colorize" boolean element has been added to RGBA "Color"
resources. It allows more advanced users to enable colorization for a given
color instead of specifying an intensity (useful so that the default
associated color does not end up being grey).
- Skins: a new top-level "Fonts" element has been added. You can now
distribute custom font files with your skin and use them in your definition
and style files. These fonts are not installed system wide, they are only
made available to Messenger and Messenger Plus! windows.
- Skins: gradient colors can now be specified in "Color" resources. These
colors are to be used in backgrounds only. Note that in the current version
of Messenger 9 Beta, horizontal gradients will be displayed vertically.
- Skins: a new "Rectangles" resource type has been added in "Replace". You
can use it to replace rcrect styles more directly.
- Skins: additional flexibility and features added for custom option
windows:
- Any number of link controls can now be added in custom option
windows. The caption of the control is used as link, http and https is
supported. Note that the caption can only contain a link, no extra text
is permitted for the web site's address to be detected.
- You can now add a button or a link control with id "AboutWnd" to
trigger the display of a second, separate about box for your skin. To id
of your about box windows are defined in SkinInfo, OptionInterface\AboutIds
elements.
- The About Box window cannot contain any option control. It can,
however, contain link controls (as specified above).
- Skins: A new "Environment" kind of <*PlusSkin*> tag is now supported. It
allows conditions based on the current version of Messenger or Messenger
Plus!, or the language of Messenger.
- Skins: the interface color used by the current user can now be reset to
any custom color of your choice when a skin is enabled. This can be
specified in the new Options\Messenger\ResetUserColor element of skininfo
and is useful if your skin looks better in a given color. If the skin
supports colorization, it is recommended to keep blue as the default in your
files and use this setting to choose the substitute a default color on
installation.
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