HyperIM Help

General usage - FAQ

This is a list of some common questions about how to use HyperIM. This FAQ does not contain any information about any particular plugin. If you are looking for a plugin-related Help page, please search the Help center for that particular plugin.

Where do I create a new profile so that I can use HyperIM?

You don't need to create any account anywhere. You also DO NOT need to use the same user or password as in your Yahoo! Account or other important account! Just enter your desired login name, with a desired password. The profile is just a file saved on your disk, locally. For your privacy, the statuses are saved encrypted based on your password, so you should not forget it.

So, where are the macros?! / What's the macro for...

• Identify the edit box in which you are editing your new custom status. Click on it if it does not already have the focus (blinking cursor in it).
• You can now view all the current available macros by four different methods:
  1. Middle click (that is, press the middle button of the mouse) when your mouse cursor is over that area, and you can see and choose the current available macros.
  2. If you don't have a middle button just press the left and the right (or the right and the left) buttons of the mouse and the same menu will appear\
  3. Or, you can keep the CTRL key pressed and hit the SPACE key. The same menu will appear. This is useful because display the menu while you are writing the status
  4. Or, hold down the CTRL key (look for it on your keyboard in the bottom left corner or somewhere below the big Enter key). While the CTRL key is pressed you can click over the status with left/right button and the menu will appear
• You can now select any macro and it will be inserted at the current location in the status box, or you can press Escape or click the mouse somewhere else, to just close it.

I can't find the macro for... / some macro doesn't work

Make sure that the plugin that provides that specific macro is enabled in the "Enable macros from" plugin list. Note that some media-player plugins have more or less macros than others, so for maximum compatibility you should use the Master macro (default name is %mPreset%) in the status, which in turn can contain any other macros. This way you won't end up with non-existent macros on the top-level parsed string.

How can I configure a specific plugin?

Double-click the plugin name in the list. If nothing happens, that plugin doesn't have any options. For currently activated plugins, you can also get to their Options dialog by right clicking in the HyperIM tray icon and selecting it from the "Configure plugin" submenu.

There are too many plugins. How do I get rid of the ones I'll never use?

Open the Plugins manager window (for example by right-clicking on an empty area of the HyperIM main window and selecting Plugins manager, or just press CTRL+P). Select each plugin that you'll never use from the list on the left, and then click the Unload button. Then click the filename that was just added on the list in the right and click the Delete button.

HyperIM crashed, what do I do now?

If you found a bug you can report it. Just make sure you follow the bug reporting guidelines