- New feature! The QuickIcons have been added in the Instant Message edit box. Just type '(' and you'll see a new screen appear, you can use either the keyboard or the mouse to select your emoticon. The QuickIcons also work in the QuickText and the Personalized Away windows. If you just want to write a '(' and don't want any emoticon, just don't care of the QuickIcon window , it will disappear if you continue to write. QuickIcons are compatible with the new icons of Messenger 4.0.
- New feature! You can specify a time with your Personalized Away message (click on "More..." in the Personalized Away window). It let's you quickly specify if you want the exact time to be displayed or the remaining time (By default, the current time is used with 10 minutes added). It also has advanced configuration using customs tags: (!t), (!r), (!rh), (!rm), (!rs).
- The delay for the display of Personalized Away messages can now be customized from the Advanced option panel by clicking on "More..." in the Personalized Away window. The default is set to 90 seconds.
- New feature! a '/me ' command has been added for those who can't live without IRC chats :). It works ONLY if you AND your contact has the Plus! extension installed. However, if you speak english, you'll see that even without Plus! the sentence is fully understandable.
- Again, a new feature that will please every IRC users: the '/away' command. Here are the specs: Type '/away My Away Message' in any chat window and your status will be automatically set to Personalized Away with the message specified. At any time, type '/away' without message to go back to 'Online' status. You can't go in away by just entering '/away', you have to specify some text in parameter. In the same idea, typing '/away' without parameter will always change your status to 'Online', even if you were in Busy or 'Appear Offline' status.
- This new feature should suit everybody (again, IRC users will appreciate). While in the Instant Message window, you can press CTRL+UP or CTRL+DOWN to recall your previous messages. Remember that you have to press CTRL so that it can work.
- In the Preferences panel, you can disable all the system shortcuts without having any error message.
- The boss shortcut does not have to be associated with a new status anymore.
- Unicode is now supported! If your language is Japanese, Chinese, or any other language that uses more than about one hundred characters, the new setup option will make you happy as it will install the Plus! Extension in its Unicode version. Sorry all of you who do not need this kind of support: the distribution package is now 180Kb bigger just because of it. You MUST have Windows NT/2000/XP installed. Windows 95/98/ME do not support Unicode. You can install the Unicode version even if you speak english or French. The only thing different you'll notice is that log files take exactly twice more spaces. If you previously had non-unicode log files, appending unicode text to it will completely invalidate the file so be careful.
- The boss shortcut does not minimize the main Messenger window if it was already minimized in the tray.
- The shortcut for the Personalized Away now works even if the main Messenger window is minimized in the tray.
- Plus! now detects if you're running Messenger 4.0 on a platform other than Windows XP and acts in consequence.
- The sound problem with Messenger 4.0 has been corrected.
- When you change the directory for the Parental Watch, the previous one is set back with normal attributes.
- No more crash when you exit Messenger while you are in the Personalized Away option window.
- The "Hide Money Central" option is less buggy.
- The Personalized Away message is displayed again, without any delay, if you changed some Personalized Away options while being already in this status.
- Stupid bug corrected: the parental watch now works, even if "Log Messages" in the "Plus!" menu is turned off. Sorry about this one.
- Better Tab Order for those who like to use keyboard and not mouse. Exception: Preferences panel and About Box.
- An "Advanced..." button has been added in the Preferences panel. These options are not really 'Advanced' but I just don't think they have their place in the common user preferences options.
- You can customize the "Enjoy Plus!" message.
- The transparency in Windows 2000/XP can be adjusted more precisely.
- The Quick Icon window can be deactivated.
- The /away and /me support can me removed.
- Logging now works better with Personalized Away messages.
- The Parental Watch log now intercepts Personalized Away messages.
- The popup window that Messenger displays sometimes in the lower right corner of Windows now displays correctly things like Personalized Away messages and '/me' commands.
- Something has been changed in my program so that using Norton Internet Security do not bother Plus! anymore. Perhaps it also solved some other problems (like the Plus! menu is missing sometimes for some people).
- The foundation of Messenger Plus! has been reviewed. Some crucial modifications have been made to the launcher program and the setup package.
- No more "Transparent" installation mode. Everything is copied in a new directory, by default in Program Files.
- None of the original Messenger files are renamed anymore.
- The launcher program, called MsgPlus.exe, now runs permanently in Windows. It does not take much memory so please, don't kill it (or accept the consequences).
- A lot of things works better now, for example, the different other existing Messenger add-ons are not bothered by Pus! anymore.
- No more need for Automatic Restore as Plus! is now 100% resistant to Messenger updates.
- Logging works better when your contact has '<' in his nickname
- Compatibility enhanced for MSN Explorer and Windows Messenger 4.5.
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