MsgPlus! for Messenger 7 - 3.40 BETA released!

[detn8r]

Note to official MSN Messenger 7 Beta Testers: the MSN Messenger Team is counting on you to beta test their product. This version of Messenger Plus! being a beta itself, it is imperative to follow a simple procedure before reporting any bug to Microsoft. If you think you found something to report, close Messenger, kill MsgPlus.exe (or uninstall it; reinstalling Plus! will just takes 10 seconds), restart Messenger and check if the bug still occurs. You must not report anything that has not been tested without Messenger Plus! running. Being a developer myself, I know how frustrating it would be for the Messenger Team not to be able to differentiate bugs coming from their software with bugs coming from a third party plugin. Thank you for your cooperation.

So, what can you expect in this beta? almost nothing except good ol' Plus! . However, to spice things up a little, I did add a nice improvement in this beta: contact names are displayed with their colors and formatting attributes almost everywhere in Messenger, including in the contact list and in the toast popups. The feature is not complete yet but it seems to work pretty well already so I left it in the beta (note that there will be an option in the preferences panel of the final version to disable this feature). Apart from that, I added an enlarge button on the sponsor agreement window for people who want to take a closer look (I have nothing to hide), you can set auto-messages while being online, the creation of new contacts on desktop is more friendly and richedit controls all have a nice themed border when you run Windows XP (I'll release the code of that improvement on CodeGuru later this month for the two of you who may be interested).

Read more, and download here.

[Jeff]

I've always liked Messenger Plus!, and it's great to be able to run it with the MSN Messenger 7.0 beta. So far, it's run perfectly. Patchou's beta software runs better than the production release of most add-ons.

[Kryptonate]

If you find a bug in Messenger Plus! 3.40 beta you can place it here or you can check what bugs are known at the same place.

[Edit:] Corrected forum code.

[Red Devil]

I've downloaded it and it seems to work fine. It's great to be able to use 7.0 with Plus. The only problem I've encountered is that Stuffplug doesnt work with it, but I didn't really expect all the plugins to work anyway.

[Pank]

I Liked this version, most features are from MSN 6.2.

[Mr_V]

It runs just fine, only one thing:

When I install it on WinXP, no problems.

When I isntall it on Win2K (SP4), near the very end of the installation, I get a message that IEXPLORE.EXE has produced a fatal error and it will be shut down. But message Plus still works OK?

[detn8r]

Beta Update from November 14th (3.40.110) :
The troublesome memory leak/slowdown problem is finally fixed. Anyone using an older beta must install this new one. Please report any slowdown problem/UI glitch you may have with this version (note that the memory leak was very minor but also present in all versions of MSN Messenger 6, if you have some time to spare, please test this beta with Messenger 6 and check for new problems that may appear).
A new DLL is now distributed with the software. This should help solve problems related to the global impact of Messenger Plus! on older/slower systems. It may also fix several incompatibility some people may have encountered with other programs (like with Photoshop 5). Note to dedicated beta testers: please test the installation of Messenger Plus! as much as possible with different scenarios (Windows versions, no admin privileges, etc...).
Your contact names should never appear blank anymore in your chat windows for no apparant reason.

Download new version from my original post above.

[MartinBradley]

Thanks for the update there, Detn8r.