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Messenger Plus! Window Borders by Willz on 07-31-2008 at 05:17 AM

Ok this has been driving me insane for a few hours. Anyway I decided to give skinning Messenger Plus Live itself a go and actually got pretty far for the preferences window.

The only issue I am coming across is being able to change the color of the window border. Basically I just want to make the outer blue part of the border a black color that isn't colorized.

I threw this code in the General interfaces file and it worked for the size of the rounded corner, but the window border color seemed to be ignored. Maybe I did something wrong I don't know but I'm over it now :P

quote:
<WindowTmpl>
   <BackgroundColor>
      <GlobalColor>bg</GlobalColor>
   </BackgroundColor>
      <Corners Shape="Round">
         <RoundSize>28</RoundSize>
      </Corners>
   <Borders Type="Dialog">
      <Color>
         <GlobalColor>bg</GlobalColor>
      </Color>
   </Borders>
</WindowTmpl>

I was hoping maybe some of the scripters who deal with Messenger Plus windows or possibly Patchy can shed some light into how I can do this. Asides from that the skinning of MPL is going pretty well, though I wish the colorization functionality worked a bit better (hint hint)

Heres a preview of what I have working.

[Image: phunknplusaw1.th.png]
RE: Messenger Plus! Window Borders by warmth on 07-31-2008 at 04:39 PM

:O waoooooooooooooooo!!! willz asking for help... that must be new... :$

btw that feels great...

RE: Messenger Plus! Window Borders by mynetx on 07-31-2008 at 04:47 PM

Hehe, when I was working on some custom toasts etc and was exactly on the same problem. I guess the only way is to change the window style away from <WindowTmpl> to <DialogTmpl>, which would allow to hide the real borders completely, and add your own ones. But that would result in having to edit the ButtonBar as that is not a valid element in <DialogTmpl>.

RE: RE: Messenger Plus! Window Borders by Willz on 07-31-2008 at 11:24 PM

quote:
Originally posted by mynetx
Hehe, when I was working on some custom toasts etc and was exactly on the same problem. I guess the only way is to change the window style away from <WindowTmpl> to <DialogTmpl>, which would allow to hide the real borders completely, and add your own ones. But that would result in having to edit the ButtonBar as that is not a valid element in <DialogTmpl>.

Yeah I really wanted to avoid doing that, too much effort for something that should be really simple in theory :P (Well ok its not that much effort but its more than what I would have wanted)
RE: Messenger Plus! Window Borders by Patchou on 07-31-2008 at 11:32 PM

WindowTmpl is the way to do it, sorry :p

RE: Messenger Plus! Window Borders by Willz on 08-01-2008 at 02:44 AM

Well I went in and did it the WindowTmpl way :P It was a bit of a pain to have to do it that way but meh what can you do. Looks like I'll be able to skin this after all :P

[Image: phunknplus2if3.th.png]

RE: Messenger Plus! Window Borders by Nagamasa on 08-01-2008 at 04:36 AM

Looks sick Willz. (h)

Yet another reason why you're better than all of us :P

RE: Messenger Plus! Window Borders by Eddie on 08-01-2008 at 08:09 AM

quote:
Originally posted by Nagamasa
Looks sick Willz. (h)

Yet another reason why you're better than all of us :P
Careful :P Willz still has to fit his head through doors, but agreed, very well done Willz :P
RE: RE: Messenger Plus! Window Borders by Willz on 08-01-2008 at 11:43 AM

quote:
Originally posted by Eddie
quote:
Originally posted by Nagamasa
Looks sick Willz. (h)

Yet another reason why you're better than all of us :P
Careful :P Willz still has to fit his head through doors, but agreed, very well done Willz :P

Hah well I wasn't trying to show off or anything, I was really really stuck and it was annoying the hell out of me. If it were up to me I would have kept the fact that I had a Plus skin going secret. Ah well. :P
RE: Messenger Plus! Window Borders by Felu on 08-01-2008 at 12:09 PM

Mmm... that looks really nice. Looking forward to the skin. Keep up the good work Willz.

RE: Messenger Plus! Window Borders by Lukychan on 08-02-2008 at 04:43 PM

Looks Good! Very cool Willz, as always. ;)

RE: Messenger Plus! Window Borders by PaUrAzZ on 08-04-2008 at 02:04 AM

willz you are very very good skinner...my compliments!
:D