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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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