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Can these things be done? by Basilis on 07-31-2008 at 02:00 PM
I was trying some things in the conversation window but I didn't come around to make them work so I want to ask if anyone knows a way to make them work. I was trying to align the display pictures to the left, to add the contact's status next to its name and to add a "Change Status" button in the main toolbar. For the first one, I only managed to move the hide/show DPs button to the left. For the status one, it only hide the name and replaced it with this ( ). About the new button, I know it can be done but I haven't found the right code yet. So, anyone who can help?
RE: Can these things be done? by ipab on 08-04-2008 at 01:36 AM
Everything you said from a cursory look, can be done. Just takes some perseverance that's all...
As far as the button for changing status goes, sorry to sound like an ass but it took a great amount of work for me to get it working for MSNM 7.5 and then it took Willz forever to port that to 8.0 and subsequently 8.5.
As this point it really is upto him as to whether he will hand it over or not, but really, even if he doesn't spoon feed you with it, that is really the whole point of the plus skinning system, openness, so just open up any skin that willz have made recerently and look carefully for the "custom" button he added. Just know that you will have to forgo certain functionality (essentially you are replacing a dropdown menu with your own contents). If you can piece together something, perhaps we will be more willing to help 
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Edit: Upon re reading your post, I'm not too sure whether you can put a contact's status next to their name in a contact window...
Again, posting what you have now would be nice .
RE: Can these things be done? by Basilis on 08-04-2008 at 06:30 AM
Well, I mostly want to get the DPs to the left. I knew Willz and you had managed to add that button for the status but the last time I tried to integrated it in one of my skins it didn't work as it is a dropdown and it needs more work. I am almost sure the status next to the contact's name can't be done. Now about the DP's. Well, I firstly tried to get them to the left by changing the layoutpos=right to layoutpos=left but it only worked for other elements. Then I tried putting that part of code in another place but the DPs only got above or below the chat history. Any ideas?
RE: RE: Can these things be done? by Willz on 08-04-2008 at 12:17 PM
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Originally posted by Basilis
I am almost sure the status next to the contact's name can't be done.
It can't, reason being is that its not like how it is in the contact list. In the contact list you are calling upon the status property of the contact, in the contact list each contact has its own element with its own properties so you can target the specific one.l
But in the chat window you can't do that because in a chat window you can have a group convo and so it would not know which one to display since its all the one thing. That's why you can't add another display picture in the chat window either, because it relies on grabbing the email address of the contact to fetch the picture and because there is no way of being able to filter this it won't work.
RE: Can these things be done? by Basilis on 08-04-2008 at 12:21 PM
What about moving the DPs to the left? Have you any idea?
RE: Can these things be done? by DennisMartijn on 11-02-2008 at 10:06 AM
Hm, I figured the same thing. Copy'd the excisting code from Open Live Detailed contact list container, to the 920 def, somewhere underneath the display picture of the contact, and indeed resulted in only ( ) showing up.
Still, it is of great importance to me to indicate the contact's, and preferably my status too, in the contact window.
Wouldn't it be possible to just "copy" the status pearl from the contact list, to somewhere in the contact window?