Stuffplug 3.5 Released!

Thursday 10 January 2008, 00:23

Finally!
After about two months of hard work finishing up all the rough edges on the stuffplug code I had back then, it's finally ready to be released!

First and foremost, it's now compatible with WLM 8.5!

Other changes from 3.0.387 include, but are definitely not limited to:

*loads* of bugfixes
Complete User-Interface overhaul
New feature: ProperColorize
New feature: GroupBlock
New feature: Security Speedup
Updated feature: FakeInvite
Updated feature: FriendlyName Editor (you can now enable and disable without restarting)
Non-finished features are now in a user-accessible "Experimental" menu.

This isn't quite the long list you've probably expected for such a major release, but that's because most of the changes are actually internal or related to new features that are still far from finished.

Also, please note that this version is not compatible with Windows Live Messenger 9 beta for now.
We will release a seperate, new, version for that later.

Anyway, download here

Have fun,
TB

Comment by .Lou

Thursday 10 January 2008, 00:26

That's awesome news! I've been waiting for this released

You can count on it be mentioned on msgstuff.com soon ;-)

Comment by Nuno Peralta

Thursday 10 January 2008, 00:31

You can now sleep now, TB

Thank you for all =)
We can now enjoy the most wished release of 2007 xD
Good night ;p

Comment by warmth

Thursday 10 January 2008, 01:09

awesome

downloading and blogging it everywhere!!!

!!!

Comment by warmth

Thursday 10 January 2008, 02:22

I can proudly announce that my MP!L 4.5 skin work amazing with SP 3.5

Comment by XzRc

Thursday 10 January 2008, 02:33

great one! and good morning all =)

Comment by Aardvark

Thursday 10 January 2008, 02:46

I knew when I got back from holidays it would be out.

*checks post date* hey this was all posted today! WOOHOO! I haven't missed too much then.

Comment by NeutralizeR

Thursday 10 January 2008, 02:51

Forgot to add Turkish language?

Comment by Kangie

Thursday 10 January 2008, 02:57

I think the release that will include all the languages will be released about the 21st

Comment by Aardvark

Thursday 10 January 2008, 06:16

*Hours later*

Hey I finally checked out the new stuff in SP3! (I can't believe I didn't do it when I downloaded it), gotta love the preview of the feature with a dp border in the options - that's just too cool

Comment by Three6Mafia

Thursday 10 January 2008, 08:00

Great Work! Yet another quality release... Well done Guys. You all deserve a well earned beer (or Spirits).

Comment by wizz4

Thursday 10 January 2008, 09:00

great work, thnx. been waiting for this a while now

as an extra future, is it possible to add oversized display-picture and oversized emoticons again??

really miss those

Comment by lordy

Thursday 10 January 2008, 10:16

IIRC the reason for there not beign any oversized emoticons/DPs anymore is that MSN now resizes these on the server and as such they never arrive at your computer oversized, even if that's wrong, there was a reason for it being that it wouldn't work right anymore so it wont be added back in

Comment by Matti

Thursday 10 January 2008, 18:32

Aah... beautiful! I guess lots of people have been waiting for this, and I had a lot of fun testing and translating this brilliant piece of work!

Great work TB! Now, let's wait for the other translators to finish their job so we can get a full multilingual version out soon.

Dutch users can already enjoy the translation by me and my friend DarylR (Daryl).

Hopefully, the world can now enjoy this release as much as we did while testing and translating it. Get this, people, you really want this!

Oh, TB: will we see some kind of Scripting API any soon?

Comment by J-Thread

Thursday 10 January 2008, 19:04

QUOTE(Matti @ Jan 10 2008, 07:32 PM) [snapback]6818[/snapback]

Oh, TB: will we see some kind of Scripting API any soon?

I think the fact that there is an "Enable scripts" option in the debug menu kind of answers your question...

Comment by Matty

Thursday 10 January 2008, 21:54

Great Work TB! I love the new features.

Comment by EaglesNestOne

Friday 11 January 2008, 01:00

ehehehehehehhehehehheheheehehhehehehehheeehhehehehehehehheheehhehehehehehehehehehehhe THANK YOU TB!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Comment by Aardvark

Friday 11 January 2008, 01:08

QUOTE(J-Thread @ Jan 11 2008, 06:04 AM) [snapback]6819[/snapback]

I think the fact that there is an "Enable scripts" option in the debug menu kind of answers your question...

Yeah but we have no idea how to write the scripts yet! Unless the information on how to do that is hidden inside this latest release too

Comment by polarbearlui

Friday 11 January 2008, 04:25

is there any chance of making all the features work with wlm8.1? cos currently i have a very nice skin that only works with wlm8.1. when i tried to install, block talk didnt work:(

any chance of making it work with wlm8.1?

Comment by Kangie

Friday 11 January 2008, 09:11

Theres already a version of Stuffplug for 8.1, so I doubt this version will be made compatible too I'm afraid

Comment by TheBlasphemer

Friday 11 January 2008, 13:02

For people interested in Scripting, read this:
http://www.stuffplug.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=1420

For everyone else:
If you have a copy of the WLM 8.1 installer, please contact me at tb[at]stuffplug.com.
I would love to make SP3.5 compatible with WLM8.1, but currently I can't test it as I don't have it

Comment by The UneXist

Friday 11 January 2008, 13:50

Yeah !! finally It's released.

I like the new StuffPlug

like the new Lay-out and the Features
specially the "~~Talk with more then 1 person in Chatwindow~~" tabbed conversations

Thank you alot SP3 Team

....oh, and the best wishes for 2008 !!!

(Thnx to Warmth...

)

Comment by warmth

Friday 11 January 2008, 13:53

QUOTE(The UneXist @ Jan 11 2008, 09:20 AM) [snapback]6835[/snapback]

specially the "Talk with more then 1 person in Chatwindow"

you mean tabbed conversations???

Comment by Three6Mafia

Saturday 12 January 2008, 04:47

QUOTE(TheBlasphemer @ Jan 11 2008, 11:02 PM) [snapback]6831[/snapback]

For everyone else:
If you have a copy of the WLM 8.1 installer, please contact me at tb[at]stuffplug.com.
I would love to make SP3.5 compatible with WLM8.1, but currently I can't test it as I don't have it

Windows Live Messenger (Build) 8.1.0178 can be got from HERE

Comment by polarbearlui

Saturday 12 January 2008, 05:32

hi. yesterday i tried o install sp 3.5. being unsuccessful, i uninstalled and installed sp 3 instead. i'm using vista ultimate adn wlm 8.1. now, the moment i sign into msn, it hangs and doesnt work anymore. i installed 8.1 without sp 3 and it worked fine. can any one help here? cant live without sp:(

Comment by shayne

Saturday 12 January 2008, 09:45

QUOTE(polarbearlui @ Jan 12 2008, 03:32 PM) [snapback]6848[/snapback]

Try updating to WLM 8.5 and then install Stuffplug 3.5 again.

Next time can you please ask for help on the Support forum and not here. Thanks

Comment by Ravi.

Sunday 13 January 2008, 14:40

Woah, I've been away to long!
Messenger 9.0
I just found out about 8.1

Im back

Comment by raghav

Tuesday 15 January 2008, 17:07

Good work TB.I know some people keep 'whining' about the late releases but i understand that this is not your job and you're not getting paid for it and there are other things important for you than StuffPlug.So some people who constantly 'whine' need to stop and appreciate TB's work

Comment by toulouzin31

Sunday 20 January 2008, 12:11

Hi !

Thank you very much for this release!

But just one question : the French language will it be added to the options? It would be very handy!
Thank you in advance for your answer.

Comment by slim8shady9

Sunday 20 January 2008, 12:35

Hi.
Can someone explain me the features "Memory Flusher" and "Security SpeedUp" with technical infos? I want to know what the features I activate exactly do to my messenger

Comment by TheSteve

Monday 21 January 2008, 02:32

QUOTE(slim8shady9 @ Jan 20 2008, 09:35 PM) [snapback]6929[/snapback]

Can someone explain me the features "Memory Flusher" and "Security SpeedUp" with technical infos? I want to know what the features I activate exactly do to my messenger

The memory flusher feature will occasionally force recently unused memory pages to your page file to free up RAM for other things.

The security speed up feature is described in detail here: http://www.stuffplug.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=1123

As a quick summary, messenger uses an inefficient method of catching bad words so that if you send/recieve a very large message, it will freeze messenger because it has to scan that long message several times. So this feature jumps in an uses a more efficient method of search.

Comment by Nuno Peralta

Wednesday 6 February 2008, 21:39

The Fake Invite descriptions says "activies" instead of "activities".

Comment by Kangie

Wednesday 6 February 2008, 23:54

If you notice any bugs, even small ones like spelling mistakes, please report them in The Bug Manager so the developers have a proper record of them, as posts about them in threads on the forum are easily missed

Comment by Nuno Peralta

Thursday 7 February 2008, 00:22

QUOTE(Kangie @ Feb 6 2008, 11:54 PM) [snapback]7037[/snapback]

oh! i forgot ;p

Comment by Trio

Tuesday 19 February 2008, 23:50

Sorry, I have one program

I already install Stuffplug 3.5, but it's not have Traditional Chinese Language

How can I do and where has download Traditional Chinese Language for Stuffplug 3.5?

Thanks.

Comment by warmth

Wednesday 20 February 2008, 00:00

QUOTE(Trio @ Feb 19 2008, 07:20 PM) [snapback]7108[/snapback]

you can't for now... unless you translate it your selft or contact the translators and they gave you the file... cause this one is not public yet... and don't come with the installer of the latest version...

Comment by Trio

Wednesday 20 February 2008, 08:48

thanks for your answer

Comment by Alexander

Friday 2 January 2009, 01:23

Long time I've been here but I still love Stuffplug :-)!

Comment by Calyp

Friday 9 January 2009, 13:43

Always used SPNG on my WLM, but now i'm waiting for support for WLM9Beta...
Hurry

Comment by warmth

Friday 9 January 2009, 18:47

You guys should read what TB said in his blog answering to me:

QUOTE

On a slightly different note, I'd like to comment on what warmth said in reply to an earlier post. Yes, StuffPlug currently is pretty much dead: the code I have is just no longer compatible with the changes in WLM9, and I'd have to start a re-write sometime. Problem is that most of StuffPlug's features aren't really relevant anymore on Messenger 9, and so trying to re-write the entire beast for WLM9 won't really get me anywhere. I'd much rather start off with something small and build it up from there, much like StuffPlug was in the beginning. So if you have anything, anything at all, that bothers you about Messenger 9, please do tell me, and it might spark that required bit of passion to start working on something again.

As for helping development of other projects; I have actually helped and contributed to both Plus! and MD in the past, and if I can help them again I'd still love to, but setting up an environment for different people to work on the same (hobby) project takes time and effort, and I'm not sure either of us are really ready to make that kind of effort.

So, if you read this: please do leave a comment if you have any views on the whole lack of third-party development on Messenger 9, or if you have something that you'd like to see changed in Messenger 9 by a third-party add-on.

I hope that TB doesn't get mad because me posting this here... this maybe will avoid people to get excited about something is going to not appear... like Calyp says...

Comment by Impheatus

Sunday 11 January 2009, 15:26

Could someone post a link to TB's blog? Ty very much.

Comment by Link_of_Hyrule

Wednesday 14 January 2009, 18:44

It would be great to see a script or addon to plus with some of the features that Stuffplug use to offer for messenger I really want to be able to edit my Display Name directly in the main contact window with out having to go to the options. Since the new plus is 100% compatible with the newest messenger I don't see why this wouldn't be possible.

Comment by Enne

Thursday 15 January 2009, 12:07

@ Warmth, never read that....that just sucks ( sorry )

I would like to have the '' use up to 5000 characters'' option back

now I can't write long story's, or just copy a piece of text into MSN conversations....

Comment by xsouldeath

Monday 19 January 2009, 21:15

erm wheres the stuffplug for WLM 9 a.k.a build 14 release lol... or is everyone still living in the past

Comment by TheSteve

Wednesday 21 January 2009, 05:25

QUOTE(xsouldeath @ Jan 20 2009, 06:15 AM) [snapback]8020[/snapback]

erm wheres the stuffplug for WLM 9 a.k.a build 14 release lol... or is everyone still living in the past

erm... look at the last post on page two...
http://www.stuffplug.com/forum/index.php?s...findpost&p=7996

Comment by Steve Fozz

Monday 2 February 2009, 13:01

QUOTE(warmth @ Jan 9 2009, 07:47 PM) [snapback]7996[/snapback]

You guys should read what TB said in his blog answering to me:
I hope that TB doesn't get mad because me posting this here... this maybe will avoid people to get excited about something is going to not appear... like Calyp says...

I use firefox as my default browser, messenger 8.5 alway opened hotmail in internet explorer,
since updating to wml 2009 messsenger now opens hotmail in firefox which is a royal pain when using more than one messenger account because you have to keep signing in and out of accounts on firefox.

Does anyone know how i may keep firefox as my default browser but still have wml 2009 messenger open hotmail with internet explorer as it did in messenger 8.5 ? .

thanks for any ideas,
steve fozz.

Comment by Fokkhof

Tuesday 3 February 2009, 14:04

QUOTE(warmth @ Jan 9 2009, 07:47 PM) [snapback]7996[/snapback]

Stuffplug works on WLM 9 too on my comp...

Comment by Ozzy Jr.

Wednesday 4 February 2009, 13:42

QUOTE(Fokkhof @ Feb 3 2009, 12:04 PM) [snapback]8031[/snapback]

Stuffplug works on WLM 9 too on my comp...

Stuffplug works on WLM 9? How did you do that?

Comment by warmth

Wednesday 4 February 2009, 19:00

That's not true... I think is working cause WLM2009 now opens WL Hotmail in the default browser... and he thinks that is because of Stuffplug... and he is wrong...

Comment by Impheatus

Sunday 8 February 2009, 13:50

AFAIK StuffPlug "runs" with WLM9 but it has limitied functionality.

Comment by Zangiry

Friday 13 February 2009, 17:05

i'm missing the 5000/10000 letter/word option
the "content stealer"

Comment by 64BIT

Friday 20 February 2009, 01:39

Now in street

Windows Live Messenger 14.0.8064.206

ok, the StuffPlug programers, is go super down.

I dont know what going on, but de messenger is now 2009.
I wait every time for StuffPlug put good programers in they software fasted.

I still wait, and wait, and wait.

Comment by saskfootball

Friday 20 February 2009, 17:04

I just installed firefox and and want to open my msn hot mail in firefox. does this soft plug work for computers with vista and I have msn version 8.5. I want to make sure it will work for me so that I can make the change over from EI. EI just does not load the pages fast plus it times out all the time. I think this has something to do with vista.

Comment by KingOss

Tuesday 3 March 2009, 21:41

Hi, i've just updated my WLM and i see that the version is now 14.0.8064.206 but... what happend?
why the version jump from 9 to 14? where are the 10-11-12-13 version?

I wait the StuffPlug's supported version in the meantime!

Comment by -=( KaaMoS )=-

Wednesday 4 March 2009, 05:09

The reason is very simple... they left the work about WLM9 many months ago. So, that BETA was obsolete.

Then they started the project again (for about 4 months ago), but with the idea to join the most of their known services in one Suite. Windows Live Essentials.

I'm not sure (please, if I'm wrong, correct me), but I think that the idea about 14 is use this number as official version is for all of its components (doesn't matter if they're Windows Live Messenger, OneCare, Writer, even Microsoft Office and many others).

So the next version of Office will be 14 too; also, Office will have components for Windows Live Essntials.

Is probably better for us if we start to call the new version of Windows Live Messenger as 14, instead of 9.

Comment by Aardvark

Wednesday 4 March 2009, 05:46

Strictly speaking it was never "WLM 9" either - WLM 2009. Therefore they should be able to fiddle with the version number as much as they like, as strictly speaking you should be saying "WLM 2009" not "WLM 9".

Also an interesting point of note is that the next version of Office will not be the 13th version of Office. The current version of version of Office (2007) is Office12. Microsoft feels that 13 will make their product more or less jinxed, and so are skipping it and going straight to 14.

Comment by KingOss

Thursday 5 March 2009, 16:49

ah ok, tnx

Comment by gasf

Sunday 8 March 2009, 17:19

QUOTE(Aardvark @ Mar 4 2009, 06:46 AM) [snapback]8083[/snapback]

That is what KaaMoS said

- that you should not be saying WLM 9 (but WLM 14)...
And it was actually called WLM 9 and some point while still on beta. also as KaaMoS said.

Comment by Aardvark

Monday 9 March 2009, 03:00

QUOTE(gasf @ Mar 9 2009, 04:19 AM) [snapback]8094[/snapback]

That is what KaaMoS said

- that you should not be saying WLM 9 (but WLM 14)...

No. Its formal name is Windows Live Messenger 2009. Just as WLM 8.5's formal name is Windows Live Messenger 2008.

Comment by -=( KaaMoS )=-

Tuesday 10 March 2009, 02:41

QUOTE(Aardvark @ Mar 8 2009, 10:00 PM) [snapback]8097[/snapback]

No. Its formal name is Windows Live Messenger 2009. Just as WLM 8.5's formal name is Windows Live Messenger 2008.

Ok "formal name" but the version is 14, so we have to call it 14 instead of 9.
That's the point.

Please, read carefully.. I wrote about THE VERSION NUMBER. No names here 8)

Comment by Kob

Sunday 15 March 2009, 15:14

so should i just re-install stuffplug to get it to open...cause when i open wlm 09 i get this cute little message box saying "FATAL ERROR: Unable to load nessasary Windows Live Messenger libraries" with a taskbar title entry saying 'StuffPlug3'. then "Loading of StuffPlug 3 Failed! Would you like to disable it?"

Comment by Kangie

Sunday 15 March 2009, 22:34

Unfortunaly StuffPlug isn't compatible with WLM2009, so it won't work I'm afraid

Comment by kristof

Saturday 28 March 2009, 12:21

Comment by Stuart

Thursday 16 April 2009, 08:05

as far as i can see the last ever version of stuffplug was 9th of january 2008 that was nearly 15 months ago, is there ever going to be another version of stuffplug or the program officially dead now?

Comment by Aardvark

Thursday 16 April 2009, 17:25

QUOTE(Stuart @ Apr 16 2009, 06:05 PM) [snapback]8164[/snapback]

If it were officially dead there would be an official announcement about it no doubt. Some software is released once every 3 years, or more! 15 months is nothing to be complaining about.

Comment by Stuart

Thursday 16 April 2009, 17:33

QUOTE(Aardvark @ Apr 16 2009, 06:25 PM) [snapback]8165[/snapback]

If it were officially dead there would be an official announcement about it no doubt. Some software is released once every 3 years, or more! 15 months is nothing to be complaining about.

i do appreciate that but considering how quickly microsoft releases new versions of messenger if you take 3 years to get this compatable with 9.0 then by the time of release the build will only support an obsolette version of messenger, i therefore thought that developement would move a little faster considering its for the messenger platform.

Comment by Aardvark

Friday 17 April 2009, 05:39

QUOTE(Stuart @ Apr 17 2009, 03:33 AM) [snapback]8166[/snapback]

i do appreciate that but considering how quickly microsoft releases new versions of messenger

Messenger has an entire team working on it (who are getting paid to do so); StuffPlug has three people who have personal lives jobs and aren't paid to build it.

Comment by x2zen

Tuesday 12 May 2009, 14:52

StuffPlug is dead in its current form. TB said that somewhere on this board.
"Project M" is, however, not dead.

Comment by psycho_maniac

Monday 3 August 2009, 01:50

QUOTE(x2zen @ May 12 2009, 09:52 AM) [snapback]8216[/snapback]

StuffPlug is dead in its current form. TB said that somewhere on this board.
"Project M" is, however, not dead.

care to share a link?

Comment by Kangie

Monday 3 August 2009, 18:21

It hasn't been released at all yet and is still work in progress, so there is no link

Comment by Aardvark

Tuesday 4 August 2009, 04:08

QUOTE(Kangie @ Aug 4 2009, 04:21 AM) [snapback]8346[/snapback]

It hasn't been released at all yet and is still work in progress, so there is no link

I think they're referring to the post where TB said that.

psycho_maniac: search the Latest News or Development Blog to find that post.

Comment by TheSteve

Friday 7 August 2009, 01:03

Actually Project M is dead too. It got reborn in to a different project.

Comment by Jimmy_B

Wednesday 23 September 2009, 13:17

QUOTE(warmth @ Jan 9 2009, 01:47 PM) [snapback]7996[/snapback]

theres just a two simple things id like to see with WLM9, the editable name and boosted character count, would these be possible through scripts?

Comment by kristof

Friday 6 November 2009, 10:51

I think there is never coming a stuffplug version for WLM9

Comment by teh yoshi

Friday 6 November 2009, 17:41

QUOTE(Jimmy_B @ Sep 23 2009, 01:17 PM) [snapback]8838[/snapback]

theres just a two simple things id like to see with WLM9, the editable name and boosted character count, would these be possible through scripts?

My favorite feature in StuffPlug was the time zone clock set for each contact appearing below their display picture. That thing was one of the best features ever, since I have friends all around the world, and I should be constantly mindful of the(ir) time. I wonder if that's not too difficult to embed into the latest WLM...

And I can't find a plugin out there that has that same feature, either. It's a real shame. I really miss StuffPlug.

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