Clist NG:

Commit of CList NG by silvercircle from https://github.com/silvercircle/miranda-ng
This is based on clist_nicer and Anti-Grain Geometry: http://www.antigrain.com/
This is the first version that actually compiles.
Do NOT use it in production environment!

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+                                        Clist Nicer modified

+                                        --------------------

+

+This is a modification of the original clist_nicer, written by Pixel based on

+Mirandas classic contact list with added skinning features.

+

+The following things were changed by me:

+----------------------------------------

+

+* ability to show client icons in the contact list. Does only work with the ICQJ or

+  ISee protocols for Miranda.

+

+* ability to show extended status icons and modes.

+

+* ability to show visibility icons in the contact list. A read eye means that you've

+  set this contact on your INVISIBILITY list (ICQ jargon) or the contact has been

+  blocked (MSN or Yahoo). You'll never be visible to this contact. A green eye means

+  that you've put this contact on your VISIBLE list, so you'll always be visible to

+  him/her, no matter what your status is (unless, you're really offline, of course).

+  Note that such "explicitely visible" lists do not exist in all protocols - it's

+  basically an "icq thing".

+

+* Added a toolbar for some commonly used operations. Check the tooltips on the toolbar

+  for more information.

+

+* added 2 buttons at the bottom for a "ICQ style" look. The left one opens the main menu

+  and the right one opens the status menu.

+

+* added some items to the contact list context menu (RIGHT click the contact list while

+  the pointer is NOT hovering a contact or its icon). The menu allows you to quickly

+  enable/disable some of the new features.

+

+* added codepage encoding for nicknames on the contact list. Currently, you can only set

+  "per contact" codepages with tabSRMM. If a codepage is present, it will be used to

+  encode the nickname. The result will be a widestring (unicode).

+

+* ability to show avatars and extended user information, like status

+  messages, on the contact list

+

+* multiwindow and genmenu support.

+

+

+                REQUIREMENTS:

+                ============

+

+* Miranda IM 0.8.1.x or later

+* Windows 2000 or later (ANSI version may work on Windows 98/SE, but this is totally

+  unsupported)..

+

+                INSTALLATION:

+                =============

+

+* Copy the .DLL to your miranda Plugins folder, while Miranda is not running.

+

+                A FEW PERFORMANCE TIP

+                =====================

+

+Clist_nicer+ can be graphic intense so it has the potential to eat quite some CPU

+cycles. This shouldn't be a problem on modern systems as they are generally fast

+enough, no matter what settings you apply. On slower systems, however, a few

+rules may improve performance significantly.

+

+* don't overuse the "overlay" skin items. All the odd/even/first/last/single skin

+  items use overdrawing to get the desired effect. This can easily double or even

+  triple the required calculations for color and transparency mixing, applying

+  shapes (rounded corners) and more. It gets even worse when each item has alpha

+  values less than 100%.

+

+* avoid the setting "Inherit transparency from background items" in the avatar

+  section of the "Advanced options" page. Transparent images need to be rendered

+  using the AlphaBlend() API which is slower than StretchBlt(). Additionally,

+  AlphaBlend()'s image rescaling "quality" is crappy. As a workaround, clist_nicer+

+  uses 2-stage rendering - it uses AlphaBlend() for applying transparency (both constant

+  and per-pixel) on the *unscaled* image and then renders the final image using

+  StretchBlt(). So the setting for transparent avatars can really hurt on slower

+  machines (but the 2-stage rendering does improve quality, of course).

+

+* avoid disabling the "Scroll with text" option for a background image. It can really

+  hurt the scrolling performance with smooth scrolling enabled.

+

+* avoid active view modes when you connect and your contact list is still empty. The

+  view mode filtering requires additional processing time, and when you connect

+  multiple protocols and a few dozen contacts are coming online, this can be notice-

+  able, even on faster machines.

+

+

+                SUPPORT:

+                ========

+

+Direct all your questions at my forum at http://www.miranda.or.at/forums/ This is also

+the support forum for my other plugin (tabSRMM)

+

+License: This program is licensed under the terms of the GNU gneral public license

+         Version 2 or any later version.

+

+         You should find a copy of the license in this archive, if you cannot find it,

+         please visit http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html

+

+

+Copyrights: This program is based on the work of others. The original clist code is

+            copyrighted by the Miranda IM development team (http://www.miranda-im.org).

+            Most of the skinning modifications were written by Pixel.

+

+            The toolbar icons were made by Angeli-Ka. Thanks for permission to use them :)

+            ICQ client icons also (C) by Angeli-Ka.

+            Overlay status icons made by Faith, permission to use them was granted. Thanks :)

+

+Contact: MSN & email: silvercircle AT gmail DOT com

+         http://miranda.or.at

+