Introduction And Upcoming Features Options

[Zhuinden]

Because too many people use those animated letters, I have Show Emoticons off. It's so much kewler this way.

Anyways, then WLM9 will come out after a while then.

[warmth]

Anyways, then WLM9 will come out after a while then.

8 month for first public beta

[Matty]

Were did you here that Warmth?

[warmth]

Were did you here that Warmth?

That is what messenger team expect... One of them tell me...

[Aardvark]

8 months?! How does that work! I swear I read somewhere that it would be released mid-2008 or something like that, and that's just UNDER 8 months there...

[Matty]

Well hopefully they will release a version erlier than that.

[warmth]

Maybe... I'm just telling you what they tell me... I'm not 100% sure of that...

[Pinkfish]

I'm actually using Live Messenger 9 Beta and it's very nice.

URL in nicknames and personal messages are now clickable.
You can customize every single sound in MSN, even choose a sound for when a specific contact connects
Animated gifs can be used as display pics

and some other things I don't remember.

I don't know if I can give the link where I found it but if I can, I will! So tell me!

[Pinkfish]

.... StuffPlug 3 does not work with Live Messenger 9 by the way... even by doing the registry manipulation.

[TheSteve]

.... StuffPlug 3 does not work with Live Messenger 9 by the way... even by doing the registry manipulation.

http://www.stuffplug.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=1382

[vade64]

I have looked around on this forum as well as using Google to try and find an add-in that uses the Windows native Text to Speech API as an add-in to WLM to provide text to speech for IM's in real time. I found the description of how to put this together but am not sophisticated enough with programming in order to make it work. If it's not a setup.exe download and click next->finish, I'm pretty much a noob. Do you know if this is a planned feature or where I can get an add-in already compiled/packaged that I can add through WLM directly?

Here is the link to the add-in build mentioned above:

http://www.bokebb.com/dev/english/2035/posts/203518926.shtml

Thanks in advance,

Dave

Hi,

As this is the first post here, I figure a quick introduction would be fit. Usually I post new information regarding StuffPlug in the news forum, but limit this to things that affect everyone. This includes new (beta-)releases, information regarding serious bugs, etc. However from several topics I noticed that for some people this was not enough, and they wanted more information. Information on development of StuffPlug, the minute it's being worked on. And that's exactly the people that this forum will cater to

So yeah, it's been a while since the latest public release, revision 387, so I don't think it'd suprise anyone if I'd say a lot of things have been changed
Most of the changes are "under the hood", you don't really see or notice them, but they will ensure that your StuffPlug experience will be flawless
However, beside all those small changes, there are also a few major new features coming up. Some are nearly ready, while others still have a long way to go. But this shouldn't be a reason not to keep you updated on them . So here goes, some of the new features you can expect in StuffPlug 3.1:

• GroupBlock
  Basically GroupBlock adds back to Messenger what should've been there from the start. The ability to block or unblock entire groups, and not just individual contacts. You can see a screenshot of this feature right here
• Custom Content
  Although winks and dynamic display pictures are a nice technology, it's a pain in the behind that you can only get them from three websites, and that they usually cost a fortune. That is why I and TheSteve set off to create our own dynamic content. StuffPlug 3.1 will allow you to use content from a lot more messenger sites than you could before. Unfortunately your contact will also need SP to properly see it, but I don't see why they shouldn't be using it anyway
  One thing worth noticing is that custom content will *not* allow you to actually create your own content. If we would allow this, it would bring serious security issues, and that's why we're limiting content creation to several trusted messenger sites only. However, we do guarantee you that any custom SP content will be 100% free to download
• Scripting
  The last and most notable feature is Scripting. Scripting will allow anyone with basic knowledge of a scripting language like JScript or VBScript to create their own features. Scripts will have full control over messenger UI-library, and as such can be used to dynamically manipulate any user-interface that messenger uses. Also they will have access to an extensive API to Messenger, that will allow them to do virtually anything you can imagine.
  Although Scripts are already functional, and the core is already there, we still have a long way to go on this feature: there are still dozens of functions and objects that we still need to implement before it will be complete.

Anyway, enough for now, I'll give you all some time to absorb this information before I write even more

Oh, One last thing I'd like to mention is that you're free to leave any comments or questions you might have as a reply here. I'd be more than glad to answer them

Have fun,
TB