Messenger Plus! Live 4.21.270

Messenger Plus! Live is the one essential add-on for Windows Live Messenger, period. After 150 million installations since 2001, when it started as a simple add-on for MSN Messenger 3, Messenger Plus! is guaranteed to improve your Messenger experience by leaps and bounds. You won’t just get a couple of new options, what you’ll get is a whole new dimension for the Windows Live Messenger software.
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Everything you wanted. And more.
Messenger Plus! Live is the one essential add-on for Windows Live Messenger, period. After 150 million installations since 2001, when it started as a simple add-on for MSN Messenger 3, Messenger Plus! is guaranteed to improve your Messenger experience by leaps and bounds. You won’t just get a couple of new options, what you’ll get is a whole new dimension for the Windows Live Messenger software.
Yet, simple and easy to use (and customize)

Thought out end-to-end to improve and enhance your instant messaging without getting in your way, Plus! adds lots of capabilities to Windows Live Messenger. It lets you use them at your will from the simple Plus! menu that gets added to every Messenger window and a couple of new buttons you’ll find within the Messenger interface:
The Messenger Plus! Preferences, examples of the buttons that get added and the Plus! menu
Enhance your conversations: Make them more efficient and fun
Tabbed chats
Use a tabbed web browser? Even if you don’t, you might find tabbed conversations useful for organizing your chats by converting a myriad of windows into a simple single one. Vertical tabs on the left, normal tabs on the top. You name it. You can also use tabs to group just some special chats and keep all the rest in normal windows if you want.
Quick Texts
Tired of always typing the same? Meet quick texts and text replacements: automatic and customizable messages that can be sent with a simple shortcut or typed command, or automatic text replacing to use written shortcuts or using it as a word filter.
Custom Sounds
The Custom Emotion Sound feature brings sound integration in Messenger to the next level by allowing users to send their own sounds during a conversation. Sounds are played instantly on both ends and are transferred automatically and transparently when needed.
New emotion sounds can be easily created from existing sound files (such as MP3s) or can be recorded live from a microphone or other audio source but, if sound authoring isn’t your thing, thousands of sounds can be found in the public database or imported from sound packs.
Colors, formatting and commands
Messenger Plus! gives you the possibility to choose any color you want for front and background, and add formatting, such as bold, italic, underlined and stoke-out. It also lets you control almost every aspect of Messenger via text shortcuts called commands, much like the ones in traditional IRC chat rooms.
Recharge your Messenger: Various additions to manage your contacts and conversations
Personalized Status
Create custom away or busy statuses with a special name tag, personal message or even an auto-responder. Set a timer to reset your status in a certain time and organize presets to reuse common statuses.
Messenger Lock
Be it for security in shared computer environments or for avoiding your boss (which would be wrong wrong wrong!), this feature lets you lock Messenger with a simple shorcut (or Plus! menu command) and hide it in the system tray with an inconspicuous icon, the ability to password protect it and to automatically send a message to your contacts to inform them when you have locked and unlocked your Messenger.
Contacts on Desktop
Similar to what ICQ used to offer, you can show the status of any desired contact on your desktop in the form of small floating windows. You can drag and drop messages or links into these to send a message to the contact, or drop a file to start a transfer.
HTML Chat Logging
Messenger Plus! Live lets you keep logs of all your conversations in a much more flexible way than the original Messenger ones. Heck, Plus! let you do that for years before MSN Messenger added it as a standard, though not perfect, feature. But what does Plus! Live improve over it?
* HTML Logs: beautiful styling and the flexibility of files you can take anywhere
* Emoticons and Winks: Everything is logged, even custom emoticons are kept and winks shown as thumbnails
* Log viewer: Shows you all your logs sorted by contact and date within Messenger Plus!
* Skinnable logs: if you get tired of the default style of logs and know CSS or get a custom.css file, just drop it in your logs folder and change their look!
Events
Event viewer and event logging
Contact sign ins and sign outs, status changes, display name and personal messages changes. Everything can be logged and archived in XML-based files which you can view from your browser.
You can also use the Event Viewer in the Plus! menu to view this info in real time, to find if a certain contact signed in earlier or analyze their status changing behaviour, or even their musical tastes!
Contact List Clean-up
Easily view stats about all your contacts (last sign in, when you had the last conversation, etc.) and clean your contact list deleting old and repeated contacts.
Polygamy (run multiple Messenger sessions)
Just check a box in the Messenger Plus! Live Preferences and you’ll be up and running for logging into more than one Messenger session at the same time, all integrating with Plus! correctly and without patching any files.
Plus endless extensibility with the Scripting Architecture
Messenger Plus! Live provides its own scripting environment to developers who want to add their own features to Windows Live Messenger. You can get scripts or learn how to develop your own from the scripts section.
For those of you who are a mere mortal incapable of creating a script: scripts mean new ideas, new features and more fun in Messenger, again and again, brought to you by other developers from the Messenger community!
And it’s all free.
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Messenger Plus! is freeware and you are encouraged to send it to
your friends. You’ll never have to pay a dime to benefit from all the features of the program. Messenger Plus! does not contain any kind of spyware or trojan. The embedded optional sponsor is adware and you get a clear choice to install it or not during setup, risk free! For those who want to support the development but prefer not to install the sponsor program, you are encouraged to visit the online store, or give the developer a minute of your time by sending a postcard. |
Change Log
Messenger Plus! Live 4.21.270 (16/05/2007)
* Added support for the new “I’m” emoticons of Messenger 8.1 in various Messenger Plus! windows.
* Some improvements for script developers:
o The script editor window remembers its size and position.
o A “find text” window has been added to the script editor, accessible from the Options menu or with Ctrl+F.
o On error, the script debugging window now displays the file name associated with the line number where the error occurred.
* This version includes access to the 6th anniversary contest that will start in about a week from now. This will be removed in the next version when the contest is over. For more information, check out the announcement on msgpluslive.net.
* A new selection criteria has been added for event notifications. You can now choose to create notifications that automatically apply to contacts with opened conversation windows. Useful for example to get notified when someone signs-out unexpectedly if you don’t notice it in the chat window.
* No extra header is added to chat logs anymore when closing a chat window and reopening it soon after. The default timeout for new session headers is 10 minutes and can be modified with the new ChatLogSessionWait registry setting.
* To help people who customize the looks of their Messenger Plus! chat logs, if a “custom.css” file is found in the Messenger Plus!’s installation directory, it is automatically copied in the directory of newly created XHTML chat log files (only if no custom.css file already exits in the destination directory).
* Blocked contacts are now displayed with the grey offline buddy icon when needed in tabbed chats and desktop contact windows.
* An option has been added to display the e-mail of the current user in the tooltip of the systray icon (mostly useful when using several accounts together, enabled by default).
* The contact name displayed in custom event notifications can now be modified by formatting the message like this: \Name\Message.
* A Turkish translation has been added to the setup.
* Added a new fail-safe mechanism to add the “Plus! Not Loaded” menu in more failure circumstances, to inform the user of the problem.
* The setup uses a better compression method and is now even smaller than it was for version 4.00.
* Scripts from the previous script developer contest are not included anymore (they can all be downloaded from the site).
* The default font for HTML chat logs has been changed from Microsoft Sans Serif to MS Shell Dlg (which actually maps to your system’s default UI font). This was changed in Messenger some time ago and the change in Messenger Plus! will reduce the size of HTML log files generated with the default font (the logs will look the same as before).
* If several event notifications apply to the same user and have exactly the same parameters (message & sound), the notifications are not duplicated.
* When a script is installed, enabled or disabled, the change is reflected in every Messenger currently running. When that happens, all the scripts in the other instances are restarted. To avoid causing problems to script developers, creating a new script or editing an existing one will not trigger an automatic reload in the other instances.
* Fixed: scripts or add-ons that add a systray icon can cause problems to some of the Messenger Plus! features.
* Fixed: the new enhanced text copy feature does not support RTF (formatting attributes are not copied with the text).
* Fixed: the enhanced text copy feature is not used when pressing Ctrl+Ins or Shift+Del.
* Fixed: Messenger Plus! notification popups do not stack and appear one at a time.
* Fixed: encrypted logs cannot be generated nor read on some Windows accounts if the Messenger Plus! keyset container got corrupted.
* Fixed: auto-update setup does not launch on Windows Vista (fixed for future auto-updates, excluding this version).
* Fixed: Messenger Lock does not sign-out the current user if his status is appear-offline (when “sign-out” is the status selected for the lock).
* Fixed: chat windows cannot be opened anymore and Messenger may crash if a third-party software is used to close a tabbed chat window.
* Fixed: bug introduced in the last version. Tabbed chats don’t flash when some special actions such as /me commands or winks are received.
* Scripts: fixed a problem with rich edit controls re-appearing after a position change of the parent.
* Scripts: added EditBox_SetCurSel, EditBox_ReplaceSel, EditBox_GetCurSelStart, EditBox_GetCurSelEnd, RichEdit_GetTextRange and RichEdit_SetCharFormat to PlusWnd objects to simplify working with edit controls.
* Scripts: Interop::Call and Interop::Call2 now accept up to 12 parameters so that functions like CreateWindowEx can be called if needed.
* Scripts: fixed title bar draw glitch when sending WM_SETICON to an interface window.
* Scripts: OnEvent_Timer function calls are not automatically displayed in the Script Debugging window anymore. This prevents the window from filling up with continuous repetitive calls.
* And yes, many other small things fixed here and there that are not worth mentioning
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