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PopUp - Frequently Asked Questions
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Hi everybody,
this is a collection of frequently asked questions: please read them, all of
them.
99% of the times I receive questions which already have an answer here. :-)
I will try to explain myself easily, so that NON-SPEAKING ENGLISH users will
understand too.
I last updated this file when I released version: 1.0.1.9
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[1.0.1.9] Q: The plugin is good, but I don't see the popups when a message
arrives.
A: This is normal, because PopUp plugin makes the popups only when a plugin
asks for them.
NewStatusNotify plugin asks PopUp plugin a popup when a contact changes his
status.
NewEventNotify plugin asks PopUp plugin a popup when a message, file or url is
received.
WinampNotify does it when a new song is played in your Winamp 2.x/3.x
MSN does it when you receive an hotmail message.
EmotIcon does it when your received message contains an emoticon it recognizes.
NotifyAnything lets you configure the popups on many circumstances. :-)
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[1.0.1.3] Q: What's the deal with "Concurrent Popups"?
A: with this option ON, PopUp will create a new thread for every popup which
needs to be created.
The main effect on this is that fade and "animate" effects can happen at the
same time on multiple plugins, instead of animating one at a time.
If you use fading/animations, I suggest you keep it ON.
If you don't use them, you don't need it. You can turn it OFF if you wish.
It will cause no harm, though, so it's ON by default.
IMPORTANT: don't play "ON-OFF-ON-OFF" with popups on your screen. If you do,
your Miranda could be closed in the place of a popup, and you'll lose any
unsaved changes.
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[1.0.0.4] Q: I've checked "AM/PM", but I don't get any AM/PM, what's wrong?
A: Check your international settings (your locale). There should be an option
page where you can configure the AM and PM symbol, and maybe they're "void" by
default, as it was on my machines ^__^ so just write "AM" and "PM" or whatever
you like.
Q2: "I don't want to mess around with my OS! Make them translatable!"
A: You're not going to *mess around* with anything. You only need to
*configure* your OS which *IS NOT* properly configured by *DEFAULT*.
Since AM/PM is part of the Operating System, my plugin has nothing to do with
its translation. Blame Microsoft if they don't put a default AM/PM value!!
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[1.0.0.7] Q: I've noticed some strange memory leaks... can you fix them?
A: I've fixed them in 1.0.0.5, so grab the latest version of PopUp plugin :-))
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[1.0.0.0] Q: Hey, remove XXX and add YYY to the plugin!
A: Write to hrk@users.sourceforge.net explaining "why" in an intelligent way.
If you convince me, I'll do what you ask.
Examples of "asked things" are: Dynamically resizing popups; Background colour;
Bold font for name; Fade in/out; AM/PM...
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[1.0.0.0] Q: The popups don't show on my system. Can you find the problem?
A: Open the "Options" and click on "Preview": if you see PopUps, the plugin
works.
If the preview does not work, then there is a problem.
I need a bug report. :)
Get VersionInfo plugin and send me its output informations too.
I can make you a special debug build to see if we can find out the problem.
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[1.0.0.0] Q: If I use MS Sans Serif as font for the popups, either my name or
the date gets cut. Can you fix it?
A: No :/ I can't fix it.
This happens with every font of "Serif" family, so it happens with MS Sans
Serif, MS Serif, some kind of "Lucida" and so on.
I don't know why, but it happens.
You can do two things:
1) Use a font of another family.
2) Enable "Enlarge PopUps by" and select a percentage you like. 120% should be
good, but you can choose any value in the range 100% (no change) ~ 200% (double
size).
If you put 105%, you'll see no big difference in popup size (so it will not
become huge!) and you will have a readable text.
A2: It seems it's a problem related to "Latin" fonts. I cannot understand
what's wrong so you'll have to use the workaround written above. :-)
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[1.0.0.0] Q: Hey, I can't stand the second line, can't I disable it?
A: Yes: uncheck "Show second line".
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[1.0.0.0] Q: Thank for your work! Your plugin rocks, I'd like to give you
something!
A: You're welcome $_$. Anyway, my plugin is released both as freeware and Open
Source, so you don't have to pay for it, as you don't have to pay for Miranda,
and you can read its source code as you can read Miranda's source code. [Hmmm...
if I were you I would not read my source code very finely, because I'm ashamed
on how chaotic it is. :) Sooner or later I'll write it again from scratch,
making a well organized code. Anyway, as of today it's fully commented, so it
can be useful nevertheless.]
By the way, should you feel like you want to compensate me in some way... in
the event you upgrade your computer and have some old pieces you *won't use
anymore*, which are *completely useless* and you don't *need them at all*...
email me at hrk@users.sourceforge.net, because maybe I can use them. :-)
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