Requirements

• Miranda IM Version 0.7 or later, available from the Miranda IM homepage.

• Windows 2000 or XP are the officially supported platforms. The plugin may work on Windows 98/Me or Windows NT 4.0, but this configuration is neither tested nor supported. It should also work on Windows Vista (any version).

Installation

The install process is straightforward. After you have downloaded the proper version from the download page (either ANSI or UNICODE, depending on the Miranda version, you are running), just unzip the plugin DLL into the \plugins folder of your Miranda installation.

Prior to installing the plugin, you should exit Miranda and restart it after finishing the install process.

Example

Assuming, you have installed Miranda in 'C:\Program Files\Miranda IM', the plugin DLL must be copied to 'C:\Program Files\Miranda IM\plugins'.

Verify that the installation was successful

Start Miranda and open the options dialog. Navigate to the Plugins node and make sure that the History Editor (historyeditor2.dll) appears in the list of running plugins. A green dot will indicate a successfully loaded and started plugin while a red dot will indicate a failure while loading the plugin. If you see this, you probably did one of the following things wrong:

• You are not running Miranda 0.7 or any later build.
• You installed the wrong plugin version (e.g. UNICODE plugin in ANSI Miranda build or vice versa).

Notes about ANSI vs. UNICODE builds

Miranda comes in two different builds. The ANSI build is suitable for all versions of Windows, beginning with Windows 95. The preferred version, however, is the UNICODE build which works on Windows 2000 or later. This build has many advantages such easier localization (independent of the system locale setting) and the ability to send and receive UNICODE messages. Most users should (and do) run the UNICODE build while the ANSI build is required for people still running Windows 95, 98 or Me.