Changelog

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[edit] MessengerDiscovery 2

[edit] 2.0.0.8 (alpha)

Nov 21 2007, 01:26 PM

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[edit] 2.0.0.7 (alpha)

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[edit] 2.0.0.6 (alpha)

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[edit] 2.0.0.5 (alpha)

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[edit] 2.0.0.4 (alpha)

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[edit] 2.0.0.3 (alpha)

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[edit] 2.0.0.2 (alpha)

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[edit] 2.0.0.1 (alpha)

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[edit] MessengerDiscovery Live 1

[edit] 1.5.0700

5th July 2008

• Completely brand new Settings interface
• - A lot of time has been spent perfecting the new Settings interface.
• - Dynamically sized so translations have plenty of room
• New Webcam Recording Feature
• - Full selection over codec and quality
• New Webcam Snapshots Feature
• - Take a picture from your webcam and send it to your contact at the click of a button
• - Set your display picture as an image from your webcam with the click of a button
• Beautiful New Alerts
• - Fully skinable
• - Supports alpha transparent PNG's for truly beautiful alerts
• New Pinned Contacts Feature
• - Pin your contacts so that you can see the latest events and their status
• Encrypted Messages
• - New feature to secure your instant messages
• - See who can support encrypted messages (MD required on both ends)
• Added support for Windows Live Messenger 9
• Redesigned "Add to list" dialog
• Introduction of language file version
• - Languages files will not load if they are old
• New !me command (similar to that of msgplus but doesn't require the contact to have msgdiscovery)
• New icon resources for all MD executables.
• - Nice alt-tab icon
• - Nice dialog icons
• - Nice MessengerDiscovery Live.exe icon
• - Installer now has a nice looking icon (designed by MMZ)
• Moved nick name/psm history log files to the email specific directory rather than MDL install directory
• Uninstaller now removes all registry keys created by MD
• Display picture Manager:
• - Added "delete" button back
• - Added 'take picture' button to take a picture from webcam and set it as display pic
• - Now fully supports adding multiple display pictures with drag-n-drop
• - Clicking on a display picture will now change your display picture to that one
• - Removed "Set as display picture" button as it now has no use
• - Added support for WLM 9
• - Completely new icons
• - Fixed "Path not found" bug
• - Fixed other numerous bugs
• New feature that tells you in a conversation if a contact has deleted you
• Alerts no longer have time suffix because they occur at the current time
• Removed Messenger Debug from WLM menus
• MessengerDiscovery menus in WLM can now be translated
• MessengerDiscovery will now remove msgplus bbcode when displaying nick names
• Updated contact list manager icons
• Updated event log icons
• Updated MessengerDiscovery button graphics
• - Improved extend/retract icon click ability
• Added 'Help' to menus
• Improved conversation connection closed alert in conversations
• Removed 'Revolving Nickname' feature due to limitations by Messenger rendering this feature pointless
• Renamed MessengerDiscoveryToday.exe to MessengerDiscovery Today.exe
• Improved !error and !failed to include WLM icon
• Fixed:
• Removed gap between removed toolbar items in WLM and fixed icons not being properly removed
• Fixed 2 serious auto-unblock bugs
• Tray menu will not flicker in endless loop anymore
• MDL will now quit immediately when closing Messenger
• Fixed major !command bug
• Fixed MessengerDiscovery not detecting Messenger not being signed out
• Auto-unblock feature will now work properly
• You can now properly suppress the auto-unblock contact dialog
• Fixed many many typos

[edit] 1.4.5408

27th April 2008

• Fixed window blackening
• Fixed auto updates for some countries
• Installer will now detect and select your language automatically
• MD will now detect and select your language automatically
• Language files must be the latest version or they will not load
• Fixed auto imitate bug
• Fixed crash when closing IM window
• Check for updates can be turned off properly
• Fixed time formatting for contact manager
• Removed advertising from installer
• Removed advertising from MD tray menu
• New uninstaller page
• Can no longer create DP manager categories where the name is just spaces
•  !failed command is now available
• Fixed text labels being blank
• Fixed Messenger connect issue if MDL is exited
• Fixed "cannot find loader.exe" error
• Updated Installer Graphics
• Updated 'about' website link
• Fixed crash when closing Messenger

[edit] 1.4.0402

20th April 2008

• Fixed iPod competition bugs
• Fixed IM window crash bug
• Fixed IM window MD icon

[edit] 1.4.0400

20th April 2008

[edit] New Features

• Parental Controls
  • Only allow certain accounts to sign into Messenger
  • Block accounts from signing to Messenger that use profanity
  • Protect MD settings with parental lock
• Unblock a contact after a certain amount of time
  • Option to delete the contact as well
  • If you are offline when the contact is scheduled to be unblocked then they will be unblocked upon next sign in
• Allow conversation windows to stay open after signing out
• Automatically decline group conversations when status is not "Online"
• Change the visibility (opacity) of contact list
• Change the visibility (opacity) of conversation windows
• Promote MessengerDiscovery and win a iPod, everything is done automatically

[edit] New Commands

•  !error has been updated to generate legitimate Messenger errors
•  !nick <nickname> command to change nickname
•  !psm <message> or !pm command to change personal message
•  !im <email> command to open an IM window with that contact

[edit] New Alerts

• when a contact is appearing offline
• when a contact changed their personal message
• when a contact changes what they are listening to

[edit] Improvements

• Vista style Settings interface
• Much improved notification when a contact deletes you
• Much improved uninstaller.
• Contact manager
  • will now let you know if a contact has you on their contact list
  • ability to steal display picture

• • ability to steal personal message
  • ability to steal all three
• Transition away from Winsock
• Set custom !command prefix
• Detection of !command typos
• Event log list will now select full rows rather than just the first column
• Clicking display pictures in popups will now open an IM window with the contact
• Feature search now supports all languages
• MD will now search for updates when opening Messenger rather than after signing in
• Can now left click to open tray menu
• "How to use time formatting" links directly to wiki article

[edit] Bug Fixes

• File transfer speed is no longer slow
• MD is no longer detected as a virus by popular virus scanners
• Fixed display picture loading bugs in "Contacts" feature
• Fixed display picture loading bugs in "Display Pictures" feature
• Fixed display picture loading bugs in popups
• Fixed !imitate bug when there's no parameters
• Made "Don't Show 'is Recording Voice Clip'" actually work
• Removed "Delete" in display pictures feature because MD is not allowed to delete display pictures without messing up WLM
• Stopped flood of alerts when signing in
• Dialogs that need you to be signed in will now close when signing out
• Removed strict/sensitive option for conversation connection alert.
• Fixed removal of toolbar items in IM/Contact list
• Fixed appearance of MD icon in IM/contact list
• Made 'Show me as' work again

[edit] 1.3.0322

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[edit] 1.3.0321

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[edit] 1.3.0310

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[edit] 1.3.0300

[edit] Changes

• Loader is now Version.dll rather than WinHTTP.dll for Vista compatibility
• IAT Hooking method to support Vista
• Conversation open/close alerts have been renamed to "connection opened/closed" as this is wording is much more accurate
• Button settings have been moved to the MessengerDiscovery Live settings
• DP Manager: Updated with new icons to zoom in/out
• DP Manager: Change wording to make it clear whether you are changing the DP category or copying it to a category
• New Feature: History * Nickname history + Personal Message History
• Tray Menu: New icon for History and big menu item text to suit
• Alerts: Right clicking an alert will now close it
• Alerts: Support for dual monitors (with the left monitor being the 'main' monitor)
• Alerts: Alert visibility (opacity) option added
• Time can now be formatted
• DP Manager: 'Save as' button
• DP Manager: 'Copy image to clipboard' button
• DP Manager: After selecting a contact display picture you can now click the email address to instant message them
• DP Manager: Selected display picture now has a new over-lay, using a optical illusion
• Event Log: Opacity settings now added
• Event Log: Option added to always be on top
• Event Log: Event log can now be automatically logged to a text file
• New Messenger API Hook to support Vista and not use Windows Messenger in Windows XP
• New commands !online, !away, !busy, !brb, !phone, !lunch, !idle to set your status
• Option added to disable MessengerDiscovery from the tray menu
• New command !font to send your current font to your contact
• New command !send "FilePath", e.g. !send C:\Picture.jpg to send a file
• New command !sendfile to open the send file dialog
• New icon in instant message window for easy access to MessengerDiscovery features, commands and status change
• Icons have been updated to be uniform, cleaner and easier to see

[edit] History

(Formally Nickname history)

• Now supports Personal Message history
• Dialog is now sizable
• Dialog now has a nice min height/width fixture that no longer flickers
• Icons have been added for Nickname history buttons and captions made shorter
• "Current Nickname" is now "Change Nickname" to properly reflect what the text box does

[edit] Connection Information

• New feature to tell you more information about your connection to the Messenger server
• Protocol ping;
• Amount of connections made;
• Active Connection count
• Active Connection IP and port listing
• Amount of data received

[edit] Fixes

• Set limitation of nickname change length to longest possible (129 characters), otherwise any longer will sign you out of WLM
• Trying to delete a display picture when there isn't one selected now alerts you that nothing happened
• Clipboard sending hotkey is now completely removed
• Popups no longer overlap with polygamy instances
• Improved full screen mode detection
• Display Picture manager supports Vista
• DP Images will now definatley load for all users
• Fixed installer issue of overwriting msvcr71.dll
• Nickname history dialog will now update if you change your nickname in Messenger
• Nickname history will now close (if open) on sign out
• Scaling for Event log and other sizable dialogs
• Removed Limitation of how many display pictures can be shown in the display picture manager.
• Added support for Messenger Plus! Live in Windows Vista
• Stopped the ability to disable all buttons/icons to access MD Menus

[edit] 1.2.0211

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[edit] 1.1.0155

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[edit] 1.00.19

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[edit] 1.00.10

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[edit] MessengerDiscoveryX 2

[edit] 2.1.B

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[edit] 2.1.A

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[edit] 2.1.0.1

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[edit] 2.1.0.0

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[edit] 2.0.2.0

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[edit] MessengerDiscovery 3

[edit] 3.0.0.0

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