Changelog

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MessengerDiscovery 2

2.0.0.8 (alpha)

Nov 21 2007, 01:26 PM

• Unknown

2.0.0.7 (alpha)

• Unknown

2.0.0.6 (alpha)

• Unknown

2.0.0.5 (alpha)

• Unknown

2.0.0.4 (alpha)

• Unknown

2.0.0.3 (alpha)

• Unknown

2.0.0.2 (alpha)

• Unknown

2.0.0.1 (alpha)

• Unknown

MessengerDiscovery Live 1

1.5.0800

26 october 2008

• Fix of memory leak from alerts
• Preliminary support for Windows Live Messenger 9 (full support will come in MessengerDiscovery 2)
• Fix of !command lag
• Webcam recorder will now record in any codec
• Numerous other fixes

1.5.0725

24th July 2008

• Stopped MessengerDiscovery launching indefinitely in some very rare instances
• When you pin a contact they will now use the current alert skin rather than 'default'
• When unpinning a contact in an alert the alert will now wait until the mouse leaves the alert until it closes
• Alerts should now display on top of every window
• Fixed msgplus gargling mdl commands
• Removed MessengerDiscovery promotion
• Fixed group conversation alert for single participant conversations
• Fix for tray menu never disappearing
• Updated several language files with latest version

1.5.0720

11th July 2008

• Fixed Speech function operating when "Do not allow Messenger to show me as 'idle'" is set
• Fixed huge bug in online contact notifications, contacts will now load properly in contact manager and you will now receive online contact alerts and more contact display pictures in display picture manager
• Fixed installer not putting the DLL in the right location, MD will now load for certain
• Alert skins will now properly load the font color from Skin.ini
• - Fixed serveral other alert skin bugs
• Now has Dutch language
• Fixed language loading in the event the language files get deleted
• Display pictures will now load properly (thanks Sirp)
• Fixed !commands not working with msgplus bbcode.
• Fixed typos
• Fixed several sign in issues, no one should get sign in trouble anymore
• "What's new" in update window will now link to the change log wiki
• Removed auto reply from engine to speed things up a lot (feature was removed in 1.5)
• "(current user)" will no longer get listed in contact manager
• Implemented fail safe into GetNickName function, contact nicknames should now display perfectly

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

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

1.4.0402

20th April 2008

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

1.4.0400

20th April 2008

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

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

New Alerts

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

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

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

1.3.0322

• Unknown

1.3.0321

• Unknown

1.3.0310

• Unknown

1.3.0300

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

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

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

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

1.2.0211

• Unknown

1.1.0155

• Unknown

1.00.19

• Unknown

1.00.10

• Unknown

MessengerDiscoveryX 2

2.1.B

• Unknown

2.1.A

• Unknown

2.1.0.1

• Unknown

2.1.0.0

• Unknown

2.0.2.0

• Unknown

MessengerDiscovery 3

3.0.0.0

• Unknown