is it possible to change the colour of  the flashing messenger in task bar?

Use a visual style?

can a script be made to do this

No.  The colour depends on the Theme you are using.  Some themes even have a little LED look-a-like thing that flashes instead of a different colour.  So it depends too much on your visual style.

ok

thanks

visual style whats that
sorry if im stupid

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Originally posted by boston
visual style whats that
sorry if im stupid

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Originally posted by alexp2_ad
No.  The colour depends on the Theme you are using.  Some themes even have a little LED look-a-like thing that flashes instead of a different colour.  So it depends too much on your visual style.

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if someone could spend time making this script to altar the colour i would be forever grateful

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Originally posted by RaceProUK

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Originally posted by alexp2_ad
No.  The colour depends on the Theme you are using.  Some themes even have a little LED look-a-like thing that flashes instead of a different colour.  So it depends too much on your visual style.

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Although with a DLL and some hooking trickery, it may be possible to alter the colour. However, such a task won't be easy at all.

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i too would also be grateful if this could be made into a script.

Please can someone make this script. I, and im sure, many other people will be very very very grateful

I doubt anyone is gonna spend hours of work to do this. It will require hooking, wont be reliable, and is dependant on knowing the theme most likely, and people use different themes. There are in fact 3 themes shipped with Windows XP, not including classic.

Cloudy

can't they all be interpreted into the script?

Yes, the script could detect each one of these themes, But the problem is it requires advanced programming in any language, nevermind Jscript. It would most likely require an external DLL to hook the task bar.

Cloudy

maybe there could be a configuration window where you chose what theme you had?

It doesn't matter if it had a configuration window. Even if you knew that 100% of people would be using the XP Luna Blue theme, It would still be a very hard script. Correct me if i'm wrong, but it seems like this would be very hard to do.

Cloudy

yes, it would be very hard to do, but it would definately be worth it
i know at least 50 people who want something like this
if someone does make it, everyone would be so grateful to them and i bet it would get downloaded like 1000s of times

Why do you want to change the colour anyway? What's the point?

because i could customize it for different contacts

eg:
x1@hotmail.com--flashes green
x2@hotmail.com--flashes red

ETC

or i think having a different colour will look a lot better (even if you won't be able to customize it for different contacts0

don't double post... to me this sounds like a pointless idea... it would be too hard for such a little idea....

a little idea,yes but a huge success!

that sounds soooo cheesy... give it up if someone wanted to they would have posted by now...and eve if theres 50 people that like it and 1000's of downloads... thats nothing... theres billions of people over the internet...just give up

ok

Hmm, different color Flashing Windows per Contact in the system tray... I like the idea It could be something for Patchou to consider building into Plus! maybe Suggest that.

There would still be no point. The contacts remain in their same order on the titlebar, just look for a flash on that section of the taskbar.

Cloudy

Well as said, it's unlikly something like that is going to happen, but i'm sure (and don't hold me to this!) that there is a way to change the sound of a messages recieved for different contacts..

If not, it would be a nice idea for a script.