Does anyone know how to change the contact list text colour as in mine and stuarts skin pack with the christmas theme the text is black but doesn't show up well on the tree background and it would be nice if it was white

Have you tried adding the Foreground-property where you put the Background-property for the tree background?
To select the color white, use the RGB function like this:
(stylesheet example)

code:

---

Foreground:rgb(255,255,255);

---

code:

---

Foreground:rcclr(<ID>);

---

Yeah I used foreground:rgb(255,255,255) to change the group title text colours but wasn't sure where to put it to change the contact list text colour so i will try adding it to the background property

edit: I am sure I changed the background colour in the ablayout tag and added in the foreground line but it didnt work there

Edit the 1004 (detailed contact list) and 1009 (compact contact list) stylesheets.

Where you see:

code:

---

Element[id=atom(listitem)][selected]
{
Background:rcclr(20061);
Foreground:rcclr(20065);
}
Element[id=atom(listitem)][selected][windowactive=false]
{
Background:rcclr(20064);
Foreground:rcclr(20065);
}
Element[id=atom(listitem)][selected][keyfocused=false]
{
Background:rcclr(20064);
Foreground:rcclr(20065);
}
Element[id=atom(listitem)][selected][indrag]
{
Background:rcclr(20061);
Foreground:rcclr(20234);
Alpha:128;
}

---

code:

---

Element[id=atom(listitem)]
{
Foreground:rcclr(20065);
}

---

thanks Vikke, so Jason i trust we will be implementing this soon lol.

EDIT:

actually i will attempt this over the weekend.

Hi!

I try the editting, but is not work. Sometimes i see a big nothing, because the contact list window is blank... i change a showing to a compact contact list and the colors are not changed. Help Me, pls!

Well its worked for me

Next thing to do is change the PSM colours to white

And other color is not good? Maybe orange or other...because, i want to change my C. L. background to black, and the other colors are green and orange..

search on the internet for RGB colours, click on one of the search results and it will come up with RGB values for the colours

Edit:

The green i used was 0,102,0

Here is a RGB value for orange 255,140,0

I use a Paint () for the colours. And i write this to the 1004.style:

Element[id=atom(listitem)][selected]
{
    Background:rgb(255,128,0);
    Foreground:rgb(48,172,182);
}
Element[id=atom(listitem)][selected][windowactive=false]
{
    Background:rgb(228,228,228);
    Foreground:rgb(51,51,51);
}
Element[id=atom(listitem)][selected][keyfocused=false]
{
    Background:rgb(228,228,228);
    Foreground:rgb(51,51,51);
}
Element[id=atom(listitem)][selected][indrag]
{
    Background:rgb(255,128,0);
    Foreground:rgb(128,128,128);
    Alpha:128;

Yeah and like vikkie said you need to add this under it

code:

---

Element[id=atom(listitem)]
{
Foreground:rcclr(20065);
}

---

and can i change the foreground color? (Foreground:rcclr(20065)

Yes of course you can like all the others you can changa in all files

Where i write?  Here:
<Style ResID=clss>
Element
{
    FontFace:"MS Shell Dlg 2";
    FontSize:8pt;
    ContentAlign:0x00000004;
}
Element[id=atom(listitem)]
{
Foreground:rgb(0,0,0);
}
Element[id=atom(listitem)][selected]
{
    Background:rgb(255,128,0);
    Foreground:rgb(0,0,0);
}

OR here ( ? ):

Element[id=atom(listitem)][selected][indrag]
{
    Background:rgb(101,184,224);
    Foreground:rgb(0,0,0);
    Alpha:128;
}
Element[id=atom(listitem)]
{
Foreground:rgb(0,0,0);
}
Element[id=atom(listitemsel2)]
{

Because, the first is not work...:/

Have you included a link to the file in the skininfo.xml

Also write what??

Yes, the SkinInfo.xml is included the link to file. But it isn't work..

EDIT: Ohh yeeaaaaaa....It's good...im not write a dot to a link and i repair it

THX THE HELP!!!!!!!!!

email me the plsk pack and I will look at it for you - freak544[at]hotmail[dot]co[dot]uk

also ave you made the same changes in the 1004 and 1009 file?? - As when I changed one file I needed to change the oter one aswell

this is correct

code:

---

Element[id=atom(listitem)][selected][indrag]
{
Background:rgb(101,184,224);
Foreground:rgb(0,0,0);
Alpha:128;
}
Element[id=atom(listitem)]
{
Foreground:rgb(0,0,0);
}
Element[id=atom(listitemsel2)]
{

---

Can you help me with the white background changing?

What do you mean white background changing

do you mean:

Change the background of the contact list or

Change a different background

Change the background of the contact list...

There is a tutorial on how to do it

Edit: Here is the thread http://shoutbox.menthix.net/showthread.php?tid=79783

Ok, I try again this THX everything!

i changed psm text colour is the last element right at the bottom of both the 1004 and 1009 style files just change the existing foreground from (119,119,119); to whatever colour you desire, ive done this in both 1004 and 1009 howeer you dont have to do this in both, 1004 is the detailed contact list click the sort contact button and tick "show contacts details" to show the detailed contact list to see the changes have taken effect, the basic contact list in other words the compact one is 1009.

ive implemented this in our skin Jason however although it works it doesnt work on warmth's psm, i can only assume he is using plus's colour codes to force the text to show up as bold and black its the only thing i can think of to explain why his psm is uneffected, unless of course vikke you can think of something i did wrong.