williamhook Posted December 9, 2007 Share Posted December 9, 2007 Messenger Plus Live 4.5 is out! In the end, 6 months were necessary to create this update? 6 months! Looking back, I can?t believe time has passed so fast. This all started out like a standard minor update, destined to be labeled 4.30. I was working on it while most of you were clicking on the 6th Anniversary Contest grid. Then, an idea came up about improving the looks of the Plus! windows, followed by an urge to change everything, and when I finally decided to complete the skinning engine I had started 2 years ago, I knew the update would require more than another week to complete.Here we are now, in December, 2 weeks away from Christmas, and the update has finally been uploaded to the servers! Not only that but the web site got a serious make-over as well. Everything looks nicer, everything works better; it is now up to you to decide whether or not all these changes were worth the efforts. Once again, I have to thank all the testers, all the translators, the graphic designers and the people in charge of the servers. They are all valuable members of the community, their help is precious and without them, Plus! wouldn?t be the software you know today. As discussed in previous news posts, the main highlight of this update is skinning. You can now change the appearance of your Messenger, rapidly and securely. All the pictures can be modified, the windows re-shaped and the elements re-colorized? sky is the limit! Some of the testers did a lot of work in the past few weeks to showcase their talents and demonstrate how to work with the system. The resulting skins can be downloaded from the official Skins Database, a new section of msgpluslive.net. Note that some of these skins are not considered ?final? (polished enough) by their creators yet but they?re worth downloading nonetheless. (More at source.) Source: http://www.msgpluslive.net/news/2007/12/09...us-450-is-live/Enjoy! Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/605725-messenger-plus-live-45-released/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slimy Posted December 9, 2007 Share Posted December 9, 2007 Sweet. Messenger Plus! Live is compatible with Windows Live Messenger 8.0 to 9.0 and it can be installed on 32bit and 64bit versions of Windows XP and Windows Vista. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/605725-messenger-plus-live-45-released/#findComment-589046667 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luis.A Posted December 9, 2007 Share Posted December 9, 2007 Please oh please someone make a Yahoo for Vista lookalike for this. Edit: Or better yet make it look like Naro :D. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/605725-messenger-plus-live-45-released/#findComment-589046679 Share on other sites More sharing options...
williamhook Posted December 9, 2007 Author Share Posted December 9, 2007 I'd love to see a skin based on Windows 3.1. :) Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/605725-messenger-plus-live-45-released/#findComment-589046692 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dance. Posted December 9, 2007 Share Posted December 9, 2007 Sweet :D. Btw you forgot to add the download link in the main post. Download Messenger Plus! Live 4.50.310 Download page for Messenger Plus! Live 4.50.310 Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/605725-messenger-plus-live-45-released/#findComment-589046793 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lee G. Veteran Posted December 9, 2007 Veteran Share Posted December 9, 2007 Thanks for the heads up (Y) Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/605725-messenger-plus-live-45-released/#findComment-589046798 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elagizy Posted December 9, 2007 Share Posted December 9, 2007 Thanks Any one noticed version = file size = 4.50 :p Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/605725-messenger-plus-live-45-released/#findComment-589046827 Share on other sites More sharing options...
williamhook Posted December 9, 2007 Author Share Posted December 9, 2007 Sweet :D. Btw you forgot to add the download link in the main post.Download Messenger Plus! Live 4.50.310 Download page for Messenger Plus! Live 4.50.310 Yeah, okay. :pThanksAny one noticed version = file size = 4.50 :p I saw that, hahaha. I wonder if that was done specficially for v4.5? Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/605725-messenger-plus-live-45-released/#findComment-589046832 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shiver202 Posted December 9, 2007 Share Posted December 9, 2007 the skins is not working on wlm 9 ? Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/605725-messenger-plus-live-45-released/#findComment-589046836 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colin-uk Veteran Posted December 9, 2007 Veteran Share Posted December 9, 2007 ooh skins, its about time :p Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/605725-messenger-plus-live-45-released/#findComment-589046851 Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Frank B. Subscriber² Posted December 9, 2007 Subscriber² Share Posted December 9, 2007 I'd love to see a skin based on Windows 3.1. :) That's just wrong. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/605725-messenger-plus-live-45-released/#findComment-589046853 Share on other sites More sharing options...
williamhook Posted December 9, 2007 Author Share Posted December 9, 2007 That's just wrong.Why so? :pI know Aero is like "zomg awesome", but it'd be fun to have a 3.1-based WLM. :D ^_^ Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/605725-messenger-plus-live-45-released/#findComment-589046857 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ehlo Posted December 9, 2007 Share Posted December 9, 2007 (Y) /me downloads :D Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/605725-messenger-plus-live-45-released/#findComment-589046864 Share on other sites More sharing options...
DJ_Alex Posted December 9, 2007 Share Posted December 9, 2007 MSN Live without this Plus addon is like a garden without flowers! heheh I'm downloading the update now, thanks for the post! :) Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/605725-messenger-plus-live-45-released/#findComment-589046868 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chestah Posted December 9, 2007 Share Posted December 9, 2007 the skins is not working on wlm 9 ? Some of them are, due to changes in WLM 9.0 most skins made so far haven't been updated. I'm in the beta testing team and most testers/skinners didn't have time to release completed skins with 9.0 support as well! The skins database has compatibility information on the download page! :) Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/605725-messenger-plus-live-45-released/#findComment-589046869 Share on other sites More sharing options...
GrimReeper Posted December 9, 2007 Share Posted December 9, 2007 w00t cant wait to use it :D I'm still using 4.2 lol Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/605725-messenger-plus-live-45-released/#findComment-589046923 Share on other sites More sharing options...
kazuyette Posted December 9, 2007 Share Posted December 9, 2007 sweet ... downloading and installing right away ! Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/605725-messenger-plus-live-45-released/#findComment-589046929 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amano Posted December 9, 2007 Share Posted December 9, 2007 Thanks for the update. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/605725-messenger-plus-live-45-released/#findComment-589046931 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Muessig Posted December 9, 2007 Share Posted December 9, 2007 Niiiice! Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/605725-messenger-plus-live-45-released/#findComment-589048075 Share on other sites More sharing options...
M.F.D.K Posted December 9, 2007 Share Posted December 9, 2007 changing skins never been so easy, below is a sreenshot of a skin i installed, it looks pretty good. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/605725-messenger-plus-live-45-released/#findComment-589048097 Share on other sites More sharing options...
xpgeek Posted December 10, 2007 Share Posted December 10, 2007 I'm not having much luck with skins, the one that I tried, the only one that I like so far, Nightfall, forces the advertising banner on the buddy list back, even tho I already patched it to hide it, and the color choices don't work at all, its just black all the time no matter how I try to change the colors in the skins options. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/605725-messenger-plus-live-45-released/#findComment-589048342 Share on other sites More sharing options...
aNILEator Posted December 10, 2007 Share Posted December 10, 2007 Nightfall is only in it's first release, other people say they have problems too, most patches eg messpatch and Apatch do not physically remove the adverts, they change a parameter to hide it as physically removing the block can and does screw up messenger. Your patch most likely had "layoutpos=none" on the advertisement element. the nightfall skin more than likely re-replaces this with the default code "layoutpos=bottom" thus the advert shows itself again. Hope that makes sense :) unfortunately Patchou has made it very clear that we are not to physically remove or show an option to remove the ads in messenger, so if you do get a skin that you want to hide ads in, perhaps we've placed a HideAds.reg in the skins folder, just a tip for the future :) Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/605725-messenger-plus-live-45-released/#findComment-589048568 Share on other sites More sharing options...
BryanChung Posted December 11, 2007 Share Posted December 11, 2007 See if anyone can help me with this: https://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=606118 Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/605725-messenger-plus-live-45-released/#findComment-589051158 Share on other sites More sharing options...
:: Lyon :: Posted December 11, 2007 Share Posted December 11, 2007 SKINS??? Now we're talking! :) Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/605725-messenger-plus-live-45-released/#findComment-589051210 Share on other sites More sharing options...
HappyAndyK Posted December 11, 2007 Share Posted December 11, 2007 Wow, Thanx ! Downloaded and checked it out for the FIRST time ! Quite useful ! (Y) Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/605725-messenger-plus-live-45-released/#findComment-589051419 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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