Problem with background changer script - Printable Version
-Shoutbox (https://shoutbox.menthix.net)
+-- Forum: MsgHelp Archive (/forumdisplay.php?fid=58)
+--- Forum: Messenger Plus! for Live Messenger (/forumdisplay.php?fid=4)
+---- Forum: Scripting (/forumdisplay.php?fid=39)
+----- Thread: Problem with background changer script (/showthread.php?tid=70712)
Problem with background changer script by giveitdeath on 01-15-2007 at 02:33 PM
Everytime i change the background on my contact list the picture seems to mess up. All the colours go funny and pixels mess up. Also the pictures don't seem to fit right.
RE: Problem with background changer script by Jimbo on 01-15-2007 at 03:26 PM
quote:Just go to C:/Program files/Msn messenger and change lvback.gif to the background image you want.
Originally posted by giveitdeath
Everytime i change the background on my contact list the picture seems to mess up. All the colours go funny and pixels mess up. Also the pictures don't seem to fit right.
Note:Has to be .gif and make sure you rename your chosen background to lvback.gif
RE: Problem with background changer script by giveitdeath on 01-15-2007 at 03:30 PM
Ive tried that and im still getting the same problem, the pictures distorted.
RE: Problem with background changer script by xJ + on 01-15-2007 at 03:54 PM
quote:You can't do anything, the background image will still be distorted no matter what image you put.
Originally posted by giveitdeath
Ive tried that and im still getting the same problem, the pictures distorted.
RE: Problem with background changer script by giveitdeath on 01-15-2007 at 05:00 PM
quote:
Originally posted by xJ +
quote:You can't do anything, the background image will still be distorted no matter what image you put.
Originally posted by giveitdeath
Ive tried that and im still getting the same problem, the pictures distorted.
Why is that?
RE: RE: Problem with background changer script by CookieRevised on 01-15-2007 at 08:44 PM
quote:Both things have got nothing todo with the script. All the script does is copying/renaming your image to lvback.gif so it can be used by Messenger as the background. It does nothing more as what you manually would do.
Originally posted by giveitdeath
Everytime i change the background on my contact list the picture seems to mess up. All the colours go funny and pixels mess up. Also the pictures don't seem to fit right.
quote:Absolutely not. It can be any image format which is supported nativly by Windows, which includes: BMPs, DIBs, EMFs, GIFs, ICOs, JPGs, PNGs, RLEs, TIFs, WMFs, etc...
Originally posted by Jimbodude
Note:Has to be .gif
quote:That is because Messenger itself stretches the image according to the contactlist size.
Originally posted by giveitdeath
Also the pictures don't seem to fit right.
PS: if you want to post about a particular script, first use the search feature of the forum to find a/the thread about that script and continue in there instead of making yet another thread about it... Also, by searching you could have found why the image wasn't what you expected it to be since that has been explained also before
RE: Problem with background changer script by giveitdeath on 01-16-2007 at 08:13 AM
Is there anyway of finding out the contact list size so i can resize my pic to fit?
RE: Problem with background changer script by xJ + on 01-16-2007 at 09:39 AM
quote:CookieRevised, I think you are wrong. I tested using other format but the messenger itself can't read any of them. The only format so far is .gif unfortunately.
Originally posted by CookieRevised
quote:Absolutely not. It can be any image format which is supported nativly by Windows, which includes: BMPs, DIBs, EMFs, GIFs, ICOs, JPGs, PNGs, RLEs, TIFs, WMFs, etc...
Originally posted by Jimbodude
Note:Has to be .gif
quote:I would printscreen my mesenger, paste it on any paint program that has got the crop feature. I crop the contact list space thereafter, and check the image size of that cropped out part.
Originally posted by giveitdeath
Is there anyway of finding out the contact list size so i can resize my pic to fit?
Unfortunately, I have no other alternative ways to find out, hopefully someone will know the fasteest and easiest. Otherwise you have to use my method.
RE: RE: Problem with background changer script by CookieRevised on 01-17-2007 at 09:45 AM
quote:I'm sorry to say, but I'm totally correct...
Originally posted by xJ +
quote:CookieRevised, I think you are wrong. I tested using other format but the messenger itself can't read any of them. The only format so far is .gif unfortunately.
Originally posted by CookieRevised
quote:Absolutely not. It can be any image format which is supported nativly by Windows, which includes: BMPs, DIBs, EMFs, GIFs, ICOs, JPGs, PNGs, RLEs, TIFs, WMFs, etc...
Originally posted by Jimbodude
Note:Has to be .gif
Messenger does not use own code to read the file, but uses the general Windows API or whatever is in the system32 DLLs to read the images, hence it can read all those formats since they are nativly supported by Windows by those system DLLs.
RE: Problem with background changer script by markee on 01-17-2007 at 09:51 AM
quote:You are correct, however you should have said more explicitly that the file extension needs to be changed to GIF even though it is of a different format (I tested this with a jpg just to confirm).
Originally posted by CookieRevised
I'm sorry to say, but I'm totally correct...
RE: Problem with background changer script by Keikonium on 01-17-2007 at 09:57 AM
CookieRevised is right, and wrong at the same time. Messenger CAN read .jpg, .png. etc as the background, but the file extension needs to be .gif for it to load.
It doesn't matter if the image is a .png, RENAMED as a .gif, or if the image is a real, true .gif.
BUT messenger can't load a .png (with a .png extension) as the background image.
And as for finding the contact list size, I'd suggest making it the size you want, print screening it, and bringing the print screen into photoshop or something. Then crop out the contact list, and look at the image dimensions. This will give you the contact list size. Altho, making the window bigger/smaller WILL alter your image 
.
EDIT: Oh crap, both answers I just posted were already answered! Oh well, I guess another explanation doesn't hurt .
RE: Problem with background changer script by CookieRevised on 01-17-2007 at 10:00 AM
quote:Jimbodude already said that, explicitly.
Originally posted by markee
quote:You are correct, however you should have said more explicitly that the file extension needs to be changed to GIF even though it is of a different format (I tested this with a jpg just to confirm).
Originally posted by CookieRevised
I'm sorry to say, but I'm totally correct...
And I talked about the format, not the name of the file.
Also, it is already said in extremely many threads (and I do mean many) and posts about this.
Furthermore, everything about lvback.gif (where it is, how to use it, that it must be named like that, that it can be different formats, etc) has already been said extremely many times before in the past (and I mean like in years ago), and repeated over and over again on the forum...
quote:What was wrong in what I've said? Where did I said anything about the file name?
Originally posted by Keikonium
CookieRevised is right, and wrong at the same time.
-------
I'm sorry to be a bit blunt here, but this is exactly why people should search and/or refer to existing threads instead of repeating things (or at least read what is being said in threads)
And/or posting in the existing threads about certain scripts instead of creating new ones, so stuff doesn't need to be repeated. Because everything said here is already said in the Background Changer thread too...
:/
RE: Problem with background changer script by Ezra on 01-17-2007 at 10:05 AM
Wasn't there a Reshack hack to make the space where the background goes smaller for MSN =< 7?
I guess that should still work for WLM.
RE: Problem with background changer script by MattyRid on 01-17-2007 at 10:09 AM
Hate to say it but, I too can confirm that it only uses gifs. And from memory it was written on the messenger says blog that the file had to be lvback.gif
Only thing is I can't seem to find it at the moment but I'm about 100% sure it was posted a few times. I'd have to sit down tomorrow if and when I get a chance to find the blog posts again.
RE: Problem with background changer script by CookieRevised on 01-17-2007 at 10:11 AM
quote:it does not, it supports any format Windows nativly supports...
Originally posted by MattyRid
Hate to say it but, I too can confirm that it only uses gifs.
quote:but that does not mean the format must be gif though
Originally posted by MattyRid
And from memory it was written on the messenger says blog that the file had to be lvback.gif
RE: RE: Problem with background changer script by Keikonium on 01-17-2007 at 10:17 AM
quote:
Originally posted by CookieRevised
What was wrong in what I've said? Where did I said anything about the file name?
I could ask you the same question. I never mentioned the file name either. I said "It doesn't matter if the image is a .png, RENAMED as a .gif". Renaming the .png extension as a .gif extension. Not the filename
. I'm not sure where you got that from lol.And what you said that was wrong was:
quote:
Originally posted by CookieRevised
Absolutely not. It can be any image format which is supported nativly by Windows, which includes: BMPs, DIBs, EMFs, GIFs, ICOs, JPGs, PNGs, RLEs, TIFs, WMFs, etc...
You are right and wrong (like I had said). It CAN be those extensions because yes, it DOES support native windows image formats, but it has to be renamed as a .gif instead of keeping those extensions for messenger to use it as a background.
I urge you to put a lvback.png into your messenger folder and tell me it works. Because it will NOT work. Then take that same file (providing you have known file extensions showing) and rename it to lvback.gif. Then it WILL work.
So what people are confusing is you saying that messenger CAN use .png. And yeah it can... but not AS a .png extension image. It has to be .gif. End of story.
Am I right, or wrong here?
RE: RE: RE: Problem with background changer script by CookieRevised on 01-17-2007 at 10:27 AM
ranting mode on...
quote:Please read my post again....
Originally posted by Keikonium
quote:I could ask you the same question. I never mentioned the file name either. I said "It doesn't matter if the image is a .png, RENAMED as a .gif". Renaming the .png extension as a .gif extension. Not the filename
Originally posted by CookieRevised
What was wrong in what I've said? Where did I said anything about the file name?
Where did I say YOU were wrong???? Or where did I said you didn't explained it correctly????
That post you posted was the first post in this thread of you, so how on earth could I reply on something you wrote after me?
quote:Again: please read what I said...
Originally posted by Keikonium
And what you said that was wrong was:
quote:
Originally posted by CookieRevised
Absolutely not. It can be any image format which is supported nativly by Windows, which includes: BMPs, DIBs, EMFs, GIFs, ICOs, JPGs, PNGs, RLEs, TIFs, WMFs, etc...
You are right and wrong (like I had said). It CAN be those extensions because yes, it DOES support native windows image formats, but it has to be renamed as a .gif instead of keeping those extensions for messenger to use it as a background.
There is absolutely nothing wrong in what I've said:
quote:"file format" is not "file name".
Originally posted by CookieRevised
Absolutely not. It can be any image format which is supported nativly by Windows, which includes: BMPs, DIBs, EMFs, GIFs, ICOs, JPGs, PNGs, RLEs, TIFs, WMFs, etc...
Again, where did I (ever, in whatever thread) said that the file extension can be something else than GIF?
quote:Take a look at posts I've made in the past about this. Also a massive major big part of the Background Script has been written by me, especially the code and comments regarding the file formats, I hope/think I can say I know how it works...
Originally posted by Keikonium
I urge you to put a lvback.png into your messenger folder and tell me it works. Because it will NOT work...
This whole discussion is also extremely useless/stupid. All it takes is a look at the Background Changer thread. And also people shouldn't actually be confussed if they read posts properly, since Jimbodude already said it should be named *.gif and the only thing what was wrong, which I replied upon to correct, was the claim that the format should be gif too...
Thus, if posts are read properly, then there was no need to
a) again explicitly repeat that the name must be *.gif
b) this whole he said/I said discussion...
Also, I ask myself here, who actually tried the Background Changer script, the main and original subject of this whole thread, to actually test all this before making a post?
...ranting mode off
EDIT:
quote:lol, very true though...
Originally posted by SpunkyLoveMuff
*.gif won't work... it has to be lvback.gif
RE: Problem with background changer script by Spunky on 01-17-2007 at 02:35 PM
quote:
Originally posted by CookieRevised
Thus, if posts are read properly, then there was no need to
a) again explicitly repeat that the name must be *.gif
b) this whole he said/I said discussion...
*.gif won't work... it has to be lvback.gif
* Spunky runs