FuseTalk PM Notifier Tool

[NikPreviousAcct]

Back in this thread, Jason unveiled an awesome tool for Private Messaging on forums using FuseTalk.

Is anyone working on incorporating emoticon support into it?

 

[Kyteland]

Since someone else brought up the PM notifier, I have a short list of annoyances that I would love to see fixed in it.

First off, if the internet connection dies it pops up a dialogue box telling you that it can't synch. That's fine, but as soon as you click OK it immediately pops up another one. You either need to restore the connection or shut down the program, because they never stop popping up. It would be great if it failed silently. Perhaps it could try to reconnect every 60 seconds or so, and do it in the background without popping anything up. A color change of the tray icon is more than sufficient to tell you that it's offline.

The second thing is that it disables the shut down dialogue box in the start menu for me. It may just be an issue with my system, but when it's running and I go to start->shut down and click OK nothing happens. Windows closes down most of the running programs, but not the PM notifier. I have to close it manually and then do start->shut down a second time. Also, the power button on my case is configured to shut down the computer. When I use that button instead of the start menu option it shuts down fine. It's really odd. I'm running win2k with sp4.

Sorry for the threadjack.

 

[NikPreviousAcct]

The thing with the shutdown function also happens with some MS programs like Outlook.

 

[NikPreviousAcct]

Another issue: it shows me logged on constantly. Like, all the time. If the PM notifier is running and I'm away from my computer, it still shows me as logged in.

Another issue: if a PM starts off with an emoticon, the PM will not be displayed at all. The window pops up with the person's name like there's going to be a message, but there's no message. Just "Username: " and nothing. I have to open a browser, log in to the forums, click Private Messages, find who it came from, and read the PM history, completely defeating the purpose of the tool.