[Torseq Tech.]

A hotkey system for accessing other parts of the program can be done. A hotkey can be customly created for clearing the chat room screen, the screen can be cleared from the menus we've added, cleared from the command-line and even cleared by right-clicking on the chat screen and selecting the option. Since a hotkey was originally added to make it more convenient to clear the screen adding them to access other parts of the program would make sense. Consider it done.

2. Autostarting Yahoo when opening YTK, like Y!Tunnel does.

It already does this, by design.

5. Built-in emote editor (for Yahoo's chat emotes)

Could be easily added, good idea.

7. Ability to move the Chat Room Activity Logger to the top of the chat (or bottom like Y!Tunnel has it).

The mini activity (embedded) logger is placed in an area where it makes the most sense to put it. The standard activity logger however *has images* can be moved around, sized etc to your liking.

8. Have the ability for YTK to detect those who sign on that are not on your buddy list (to hide the ghost logins issue Yahoo has).

This has already been handled with the on-screen offline/online friend notifications and was already planned to be finished completely. Thanks for all your suggestions. Some of them would make nice additions.

As for creating plugins for Messenger 8.0 we could do this but I haven't fully explored the Yahoo! Developer Network SDK yet. While I know what's possible and what it can do the plugins are limited to only running in the buddy list window or in IM windows (to the best of my knowledge). While Yahoo!'s new SDK sounds promising it's not something we'd really need to take advantage of since we can do much more without even needing to tap into it.

Kingofchaos, what type of editing would you need done for Yahoo!'s emotes? I could create an editor to interface with Yahoo!'s emote_user.dat file and allow you to add or delete the ones you want. Is that what you were suggesting? If not then give me some more insight and I'll get it done and working by tonight.