Because loading the windows can take some time (especially the Preferences window), they will now start invisible and will be made visible after everything is loaded. So, don't go mad when the window doesn't open immediately on your Quad Core with 4 gigs of RAM. =P

Everything happening with the countdowns is now sent to Plus!' Event Log. This was added because the user could disable the toasts and thus won't be able to know what happened. Now, he/she can look in the Event Log and find it

Just in time, a glitch was spotted when using the total amount units. This was caused by the fact that the same Date object was used as for the separate units which substracts the timezone offset, while this shouldn't happen for the total amount units. So now, that's been fixed.

Requested by Matty who needed a reliable class for handling list-view controls, I wrote a ListView class which gives more control over list-view controls. Because I felt like Countdown Live should benefit from this too, I implemented it in the current script. And it works great! For example, when the new version of Messenger Plus! Live will be released, users can sort the language files in the "Download languages" window. No more messy workarounds anymore with "Array.sort()", only pure Win32 API! :-D

When Countdown Live starts up for the first time for a new user, it'll try to get the user's Plus! Live language from the languages folder or, if not found there, from the languages server. The user won't notice this action and if this fails, the scripts falls back on the English language file. In a future release, I might even add a language updater... maybe...

At last I found a French translator for the script. A friend of mine asked his French friend Franck Dethier if he was interested in translating the script. He did a fast and great job translating the script, which allows me to release the script on this April Fools day. The other translations are also updated to support the new features since 2.0.006.

In some rare cases, the selected language may become invalid, for example when you update Countdown Live and the selected language isn't updated yet. From this release on, the default language (based on the user's Plus! language, or else English) will be automatically restored after the user is notified about this.

Many thanks to Francesco Giallatini, Jörg Schiller and Patricio Caniulef for their efforts to translate this! Currently, I'm still in need of a French translation as BMPalmer who would do the translation, seems to be disappeared.

Matty reported me some graphical errors in the preferences window, which were quite quickly fixed. Nothing serious here.

What is nicer than having a script which greets you in your language as soon as you install it? The language system has been extended with a new <LangCode> element which makes it possible for Countdown Live to find the right language based on Plus! Live's current language. You can test this out by choosing another language first, saving your preferences and then try to restore the defaults. Don't forget to export your preferences first!

On public request, an option was added which allows the user to choose whether toasts should pop up when the status of the countdowns changes. This includes enabling, disabling, pausing and resuming.

A new tab was added to make room for the feature above. In this tab, I have moved some less stable features.

All script windows now have a nice Countdown Live icon appearing in the taskbar and Alt+Tab window. This should make the windows easier to find when having other Plus! Live windows opened. And it's just lots more beautiful! :-D

One stupid mistake made a whole feature fail. Wow. Well, it's fixed now.

This bug was caused by a wrong detection of the Plus! version for adding icons next to the items in the drop-down lists. Countdown Live would think that the user has a Plus! version installed supporting icons in drop-down lists, while he/she actually hasn't. This caused the procedure for loading the preferences into the window to fail. This update fixes this issue, however it's recommend that users always use the latest version of Messenger Plus! Live.

I've spent a whole afternoon on rewriting that whole class. But I'm happy I've done it. The class can now hold as many submenus the developer wants, the menu items can be identified by a string, such as "MnuThing", and thus make it easier to identify what item was clicked. And it's just so easy to create a menu now! Unfortunately, there's still that problem with the icons, sorry dear XP-users. Maybe let this be an good argument to upgrade to Vista? (Just kidding!)

When the preferences window was placed on the left side of the screen so that the buttons which open a menu were partially outside the screen, the menu would popup on a wrong position. This was fixed by setting a minimum coordinate of 2 for these menus. It seems like Messenger Plus! Live also has this problem with the MenuButtonControls... so Countdown Live has another advantage by using Windows menus and handling them itself instead of Plus! doing it.

To make this page readable in such a tiny Plus! Live window (although it's actually resizeable), all items now have a More/Less link to display the extended information, unless they don't need an additional explanation. This should reduce most of your scrolling headaches while browsing through this What's New page.

Now, the user can choose to temporarily disable the countdowns when:

• ...a personalised status is set. In this case, all countdowns are paused.
• ...another media message is set, such as a Now Playing message from Windows Media Player, while the media message countdown is active. In this case, the media message countdown is paused.

The countdown(s) will continue as soon as the special case is unset.

When the user changes his/her name or personal message in the contact list while a countdown is active, Countdown Live will look for countdown tags in the new name or message. If it finds a tag, it'll automatically store it in the preferences and use that instead.
An example:

1. The user is counting down to new year in his/her personal message with the following message:
   Counting down to new year: (!CD1)
   and has enabled this new feature.
2. The user now changes his/her personal message to:
   New year comes in: (!CD1)
3. Countdown Live detects the change and looks for a countdown tag.
4. A tag is found and Countdown Live stores the new personal message in its preferences.
5. The countdown will continue with the new message.

Finally, you can safely install Countdown Live 2.0 over a 1.0 installation without crashing everything. Countdown Live will try to remove the old files, such as "Countdown Live.js", and port the preferences from version 1.0 to 2.0. The only limitation is that a script restart is required when the user doesn't have script debugging enabled.
Testers note: If you can, please test this feature out by removing 2.0, installing 1.0 and then installing 2.0 on top of it. I'd like this feature to work as good as possible!

When a countdown reaches its end, a toast pops up notifying the user about this. The use can click this toast to open the preferences and eventually make changes to the countdown.

No strange "-1 days" or other miscalculations anymore! In fact, the new calculation is lots simpler and thus also faster than the old method.

The preferences exporting system was improved with addition of a header comment, newlines and tabbings to make the preferences XML file more readable for a human in a plain text viewer.

The first option is that the tag is replaced with a message, like "It's here!". The second is that the countdown turns into a countup using another tag, so the user can add "ago" at the end for example.

Sorry, dear XP users, but I can't seem to find a fix for the problem. However, I'll try things out from time to time and when I get the icons working on XP, I'll certainly remove this limitation.