HyperIM Plugins

Yahoo! Messenger Status Plugin

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This plugin changes the status for Yahoo! Messenger, sending your fancy HyperIM generated status directly into Yahoo! Messenger's one!

Exclusive features

• new! works with Yahoo! Messenger 9.0 BETA!
• it can change your Yahoo! Messenger 7.5 (or newer) status without forcing you to make Yahoo! Messenger remember your Yahoo! ID and password in the Registry, unlike MsgrAmp, Y!Amp, or other programs require you to do! Keep your privacy safe!
• new! Automatically restores the last used status after Yahoo! Messenger reconnects. The usual buggy behaviour of YM is that after a reconnect, your status is set to Available, instead of what it was before. Not anymore!
• works with multiple simultaneous logged in Yahoo! ID accounts (also known as multimessenger mode)
• up to full 255 characters long statuses!
• you can choose so that if you are Invisible in Yahoo! Messenger, then your status shall not be changed away from that mode. Frustrated to have your status change suddenly from Invisible to Available? Then this brand new option is the solution!
• Unicode and ASCII characters appear correctly in your status in any situation. Unlike in Y!Amp, no funny squares or weird characters show up instead of what you wanted!
• doesn't advertise any URLs in your status, unlike Y!Amp and MsgrAmp do 90% of the time.
• this was the first plugin that allowed users to put headphones icon in their status without having to listen to Yahoo! Launchcast (mid-2005). Since then, it has been greatly improved, now supporting almost ALL of Yahoo!'s Messenger status icons
• supports status changing even if you are logged in with an alias profile (a non-default Yahoo! ID)
• because you can use macros together with every particular status in HyperIM, status icons have very much flexibility. You can actually save each status with its particular status icons! You just select from HyperIM your status, and the macros that it contains inside it affect your YM status icons! You can also use the floating toolbar with visual buttons for this.

A few examples to show the current song with different status icons
HyperIM status	Result
%mSong%/y:m
%mSong%/y:i
%mSong%/y:b/y:w
%mSong%/y:c
%mSong%/y:i/y:m
%mSong%/y:g
%mSong%/y:g/y:i
%mSong%/y:p
%mSong%/y:p/y:b

Supported status icons

• fake Webcam icon in your Yahoo! status *
• Headphones icon in your Yahoo! status (no need to use Launchcast)
• fake Games icon in your Yahoo! status! *
• fake "Open Talk" icon besides status text *
• fake Plugin icon (Yahoo! Messenger 8.0 and 8.1 only) *
• fake Idle status icon *
• Busy icon, with any status

*) Only with YM 8.1 or older

You can also combine them! You can also have an optional floating toolbar that allows you to instantly select desired icons (see below), so you don't need to remember, or even use the status icon macros (even though they're more powerful to use). To activate the floating toolbar double click the plugin and mark the corresponding checkbox.

Tested with the following supported versions:

• Yahoo! Messenger 9.0.0.907 BETA - latest version on 2007/11/09
• Yahoo! Messenger 9.0.0.797 BETA
• Yahoo! Messenger 8.1.0.421 - latest stable version on 2007/10/30
• Yahoo! Messenger 8.1.0.419
• Yahoo! Messenger 8.1.0.416
• Yahoo! Messenger 8.1.0.415
• Yahoo! Messenger 8.1.0.413
• Yahoo! Messenger 8.1.0.402
• Yahoo! Messenger 8.1.0.401
• Yahoo! Messenger 8.1.0.244
• Yahoo! Messenger 8.1.0.239
• Yahoo! Messenger 8.1.0.209
• Yahoo! Messenger 8.1.0.195
• Yahoo! Messenger 8.0.0.x
• Yahoo! Messenger 8.0.0.505 BETA
• Yahoo! Messenger 7.5.0.814
• Yahoo! Messenger 7.0.0.437