Shoutbox

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

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

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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.

waoooooooooooooooo!!! willz asking for help... that must be new...

btw that feels great...

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>.

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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>.

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Yeah I really wanted to avoid doing that, too much effort for something that should be really simple in theory (Well ok its not that much effort but its more than what I would have wanted)

WindowTmpl is the way to do it, sorry

Well I went in and did it the WindowTmpl way 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

Looks sick Willz.

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

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Originally posted by Nagamasa
Looks sick Willz.

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

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Careful Willz still has to fit his head through doors, but agreed, very well done Willz

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Originally posted by Eddie

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Originally posted by Nagamasa
Looks sick Willz.

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

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Careful Willz still has to fit his head through doors, but agreed, very well done Willz

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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.

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