Aral Balkan

As I mentioned in my previous post, I've switched from using Trillian Pro to Miranda IM. When I first ran Miranda, I was a little worried about whether I would end up missing all the features that Trillian had. This was before I discovered the myriad of plug-ins contributed by the Miranda community.

The most important one I've installed so far is the tabSRMM ("Tabbed message dialog") plugin. It replaces the lackluster message dialog that comes with Miranda with a more powerful and configurable tabbed pane. One word of warning though: The installation instructions are misleading: Contrary to what they state, copying the tabsrmm.dll file (or tabsrmm_unicode.dll if you want Unicode support) to the Plugins folder is *not* enough to install the plugin. You have to remove the existing SRMM.dll file and rename tabsrmm.dll to SRMM.dll (this, at least, was how I got it to work on my machine.)

Comments

• You dont'actually have to rename the dlls. You have to go to the plugin options on your huge miranda options dialog, disable srmm.dll, and enable tabsrmm.dll instead. Or, just delete the original srmm.dll and tabsrmm will (probably) be activated instead, on top of it, when you start miranda. That's how it goes when you have two different plugins that do the same thing, only one of them gets activated. The same goes for the 'clist' plugin (miranda comes with two different list rendering/managing plugins, but only one of them is activated).
  
  This whole plugin (dll rather) functionality is what makes miranda really cool, but I do agree the documentation is often sparse, misleading, or just not very user friendly.

  by zeh on 2005-04-18 02:47:10

• Hi Zeh,
  
  Thanks, man -- good to know. That's a much neater process :) Btw, just deleting srmm.dll doesn't make Miranda pick up tabsrmm automatically -- that was the first thing I tried ;)

  by Aral Balkan on 2005-04-18 10:41:01