{"id":522,"date":"2007-03-05T22:14:09","date_gmt":"2007-03-05T16:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dotcomunderground.com\/blogs\/2007\/03\/05\/messenger-plus-live-420-has-been-released\/"},"modified":"2007-03-05T22:22:34","modified_gmt":"2007-03-05T16:22:34","slug":"messenger-plus-live-420-has-been-released","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dotcomunderground.com\/blogs\/2007\/03\/05\/messenger-plus-live-420-has-been-released\/","title":{"rendered":"Messenger Plus! Live 4.20 has been released"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Latest version of Messenger Plus! for Windows Live Messenger (WLM) <strong>Messenger Plus! Live 4.20<\/strong> has been released on 28th Feb 2007.<\/p>\n<p>Download it from here:<br \/>\n<!--adsense#HalfBanner--><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/download.msgpluslive.net\/setup\/MsgPlusLive-420.exe\">Download Messenger Plus! Live 4.20<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Whats new:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Various visual adjustments for Windows Vista. Some of them are dependant<br \/>\n\tof your system&#8217;s configuration and theme settings. This includes, but is not<br \/>\n\tlimited to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Animation effects when most Messenger Plus! windows open and close.<\/li>\n<li>Fixed &quot;black box&quot; display glitch when resizing Messenger Plus!<br \/>\n\t\twindows.<\/li>\n<li>Drop-down lists (combo boxes) in Messenger Plus! windows look<br \/>\n\t\tbetter.<\/li>\n<li>Most &quot;open file&quot; and &quot;save file&quot; windows use the new Vista template.<\/li>\n<li>No more sluggish transition effects on some of the controls when the<br \/>\n\t\tmouse pointer passes over them.<\/li>\n<li>Some windows do not display properly with right-to-left languages.<\/li>\n<li>Tabbed chats don&#8217;t create an empty area in Flip3D. The chat window<br \/>\n\t\tis not part of the flip sequence but is displayed in the background.<br \/>\n\t\tThis may be improved in future releases but it all depends on the<br \/>\n\t\t(rather limited or undocumented) new DWM API of Windows.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>This version of Messenger Plus! is distributed with some additional<br \/>\n\tscripts. Scripts add various new improvements to Messenger and are all<br \/>\n\tdeveloped by third parties, people like you and me, who give some of their<br \/>\n\ttime to help the Messenger community. The installation of scripts can be<br \/>\n\tdisabled in the setup and future versions of Messenger Plus! won&#8217;t<br \/>\n\tnecessarily be distributed with the same scripts (or any at all for that<br \/>\n\tmatter). These scripts have been bundled mainly so that a larger portion of<br \/>\n\tthe Messenger Plus! userbase discovers the benefits of installing scripts.<br \/>\n\tThe scripts distributed with this version are all available in the script<br \/>\n\tdatabase at msgpluslive.net, along with 250 more :). I hope you&#8217;ll all enjoy<br \/>\n\tthese fine creations!<\/li>\n<li>Administrator privileges are not required in Windows Vista anymore when<br \/>\n\timporting sound packs and scripts from the Windows shell.<\/li>\n<li>Messenger is not launched automatically at the end of the setup of<br \/>\n\tMessenger Plus! if the setup is not running in the context of the currently<br \/>\n\tlogged on user (happens in Vista if the setup is launched from a<br \/>\n\tnon-administrator user account).<\/li>\n<li>Importing sound packs and scripts from the shell in accounts with no<br \/>\n\tadministrator privileges now works properly in Windows Vista.<\/li>\n<li>No more use of virtualized directories in Windows Vista. The necessary<br \/>\n\tsecurity rights are set to some of the directories created and accessed by<br \/>\n\tMessenger Plus!.<\/li>\n<li>Added new feature: text copied in chat windows (in both the received<br \/>\n\tmessages and typing areas) now includes emoticons<br \/>\n\tcodes instead of white spaces.<\/li>\n<li>Preferences pack files now have an associated icon and can be imported<br \/>\n\tfrom the shell.<\/li>\n<li>Added Hebrew language to the main distribution package.<\/li>\n<li>The (!VER) tag now reports the edition of Windows Vista.<\/li>\n<li>The Control key needs to be pressed when deleting a contact in the<br \/>\n\tContact List Clean-up window to block it as well.<\/li>\n<li>No more &quot;Error 8005&quot; when the setup of Messenger Plus! is launched on a<br \/>\n\tsystem with some font problems.<\/li>\n<li>Chat logging is disabled by default in guest accounts.<\/li>\n<li>The Contact Information window now displays the personal message as<br \/>\n\twell. Also, the display picture has been fixed when using a right-to-left<br \/>\n\tlanguage in Messenger Plus!.<\/li>\n<li>A new icon has been added in the contact list and the chat windows to access the scripts&#8217;<br \/>\n\tmenus.<\/li>\n<li>The way the task bar flashes when a new message is received in a tabbed<br \/>\n\tchat has been improved to avoid missing unseen messages. This feature has<br \/>\n\talso been fixed for Windows Vista.<\/li>\n<li>Added a diagnostic message in the setup to download and repair the MSXML<br \/>\n\t3 library from microsoft.com. This helps fix &quot;Error 8008&quot;.<\/li>\n<li>The setup has better chances to succeed if Messenger is running in<br \/>\n\tdifferent user sessions when installation occurs.<\/li>\n<li>Fixed: the tabbed chats bar may display no name or status for newly<br \/>\n\tcreated chat windows.<\/li>\n<li>Fixed: using the \/psm command with IRC format codes can corrupt<br \/>\n\tMessenger&#8217;s Contact cache and prevent users to sign back-in.<\/li>\n<li>Fixed: encrypted log files located in a read-only folder cannot be<br \/>\n\tdecrypted by the Log Viewer (known limitation: pictures aren&#8217;t displayed in<br \/>\n\thtml log files when that&#8217;s the case).<\/li>\n<li>Fixed: some Messenger Plus! menus have a bad internal looking extra<br \/>\n\tcontour.<\/li>\n<li>Fixed: (!M) tag doesn&#8217;t display the proper email for Yahoo contacts.<\/li>\n<li>Fixed: the chat history window can become a little bit messed-up when<br \/>\n\tsending several emoticons that half transform into bbcode in the same<br \/>\n\tmessage.<\/li>\n<li>Fixed: when in Messenger Lock mode, the Messenger icon in the systray is<br \/>\n\treverted back to normal if explorer.exe crashes and the systray bar is<br \/>\n\trecreated.<\/li>\n<li>Fixed: the Log Viewer doesn&#8217;t display folders that only contains<br \/>\n\tsub-folders.<\/li>\n<li>Fixed: Messenger Plus! displays &quot;yahoo:&quot; in front of Yahoo contact&#8217;s<br \/>\n\tnames.<\/li>\n<li>Fixed: &quot;In a call&quot; status is not considered to be &quot;Busy&quot; by some of the<br \/>\n\tfeatures of Messenger Plus! (like playing sounds).<\/li>\n<li>Fixed: floating desktop contacts of yourself do not work properly.<\/li>\n<li>Fixed: the scripting documentation cannot be downloaded from the editor<br \/>\n\twindow in Windows Vista.<\/li>\n<li>Fixed: can&#8217;t import scripts when the full path to the scripts directory<br \/>\n\tis not readable by the current user.<\/li>\n<li>Scripts: fixed Contacts::GetContact() and Messenger::OpenChat() for contacts that are connected on<br \/>\n\tthe Yahoo network.<\/li>\n<li>Scripts: OnEvent_ContactSignout is never called anymore after<br \/>\n\tOnEvent_Signout.<\/li>\n<li>Scripts: OnEvent_Uninitialize is always properly sent when Windows is<br \/>\n\trestarted while Messenger is still running.<\/li>\n<li>Scripts: Added a &lt;Version&gt; element in ScriptInfo to help developers<br \/>\n\tspecify the version of their scripts. This will prevent duplicated copies of<br \/>\n\tthe same script from being installed on a user&#8217;s system (as the name of the<br \/>\n\tscript is used to create the corresponding script&#8217;s directory). This tag is<br \/>\n\tdisplayed in the import and preferences window.<\/li>\n<li>Scripts: OnWindowidEvent_LstViewClicked events are now sent when the<br \/>\n\tuser clicks in an empty part of the control. In that case, ItemIdx is -1.<\/li>\n<li>Scripts: added OnWindowidEvent_LstViewSelStateChanged event for ListView<br \/>\n\tcontrols. This even is fired every time an item is selected or unselected.<\/li>\n<li>Scripts: the documentation has been updated in several places. Please<br \/>\n\tmake sure you get the latest version! (and as a general rule, try to<br \/>\n\tremember to check for documentation updates every month or so. The<br \/>\n\tdocumentation can be updated\/improved even when Messenger Plus! itself<br \/>\n\tisn&#8217;t).<\/li>\n<li>Scripts: added MsgPlus::UILangCode property to get the code of the<br \/>\n\tlanguage currently displayed by Messenger Plus!.<\/li>\n<li>Scripts: added ChatWnd::HistoryText_GetCurSelStart and ChatWnd::HistoryText_GetCurSelEnd<br \/>\n\tto get the current selection in the message history area (where messages are<br \/>\n\treceived).<\/li>\n<li>Scripts: added ChatWnd::HistoryText_GetTextRange to get a portion of<br \/>\n\ttext from the message history area.<\/li>\n<li>Scripts: added MsgPlus::DownloadFile function and the corresponding<br \/>\n\tOnEvent_DownloadFileComplete event to allow scripts to download files<br \/>\n\tasynchronously.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Latest version of Messenger Plus! for Windows Live Messenger (WLM) Messenger Plus! Live 4.20 has been released on 28th Feb 2007. Download it from here: Download Messenger Plus! Live 4.20 Whats new: Various visual adjustments for Windows Vista. Some of them are dependant of your system&#8217;s configuration and theme settings. 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