Shoutbox

New Plus!, New Skins =)
Finally, it's ready =)
Wait for future improovements!

"Let your Messenger be YOUR Messenger. Remove those ugly dots before each message if you want. Maybe you prefer having Display Pictures in the right-hand side. Or, who knows, for some reason you prefer having your dashboard in the bottom of the contact list. Add status shortcuts to conversation windows and to the contact list, remove the logon window scene, or even the contact list's scene. What if you could even choose contact list's and logon window's backgrounds? Now you can."


Update:
Currently available Options:
>Remove SignIn Links
>Remove Scene at the Logon Window
>Remove Contact List Scene
>Remove Colorizable background from contact search box
>Move Display Picture back to the right, in Convo Windows
>Logon Background (Choose between 70 options, including default)
>Contact List and Other windows  background (Choose between 70 options, including default)
>Add quick status change and logout buttons to contact list [Right, Left, Toolbar and None]
>Add quick status change buttons to convo window
>Add quick logout to convo window
>Move dashboard to the bottom
>Remove Display Picture (Logon Window)
>Remove Help Button (Logon Window)
>Remove Display Picture (Contact List)
>Contact Toolbar position {Contact search, and its buttons}(Contact List) [None, Bottom, Top-Default]

Fixed:
Activate Quick Status/Logout (under contact list section) would activate both Contact List's and Conversation Window's.

Some functions:
>Quick status change: just click on the status icon you want to change to =)
>Quick logout: press and you're logged out.

Download Version 0.5
Requirements:
Messenger Plus! Live 4.80.0.356 or 4.79.0.353 Beta
Windows Live Messenger 14.0.8050.1202 or 14.0.8064.0206

Upcoming features:
>Choose an alert skin (Drawing them... 0%)

>Added: add blur underneath texts, for readable texts even with dark backgrounds. (50%)

>Added: move the quick status change buttons (until now: formatting toolbar, main toolbar. Trying to add: near display your/your contact's display picture. {it hides both DPs after clicked...}) (70%)

>Added: Choose Add contact dialog/Display Picture Dialog/Emoticons Dialog/Winks Dialog/Change Scene Dialog/Change Background Dialog/Conversation Window background. [one combobox for each window] (90%) (Creating IDs for each one, and it's respective comboboxes.)

>Added: move the quick status change buttons (contact list: none, toolbar, left, right) (Added in 0.5)

>Added: add send button to conversation window. (placed in the toolbar). (Added in 0.5) (Option string not already added... forgot it =P)

>Added: remove convo window scene (the place where it was goes completely transparent) (Added in 0.5)

>Fixed: quick status change and quick logout button now have tooltips (although "logout" is described as "exit", since there was "log&out" and "exit", I chose "exit") (Fixed in 0.5)

>Fixed: skin options button now has the "Preferences" tooltip. (Fixed in 0.5)

>Merged: Add quick status change buttons to contact list and Add quick logout to contact list, now "quick status change" also includes "quick logout button". (Merged in 0.5)
*Note, quick logout button is still a separated option in the convo window.

>Fixed: "Contact List Default" background now also available for logon Window.

I like the sign in window. It is simple but impressive.

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Originally posted by Basilis
I like the sign in window. It is simple but impressive.

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Thanks =)

The sign in windows looks good indeed, how do you skinned the background?

The background was easy: replace ID 4300. But the Scene needed a workaround, in definition 947

code:

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<*PlusSkin Conditions(RemoveSceneLogon = false) *><Element Id=atom(idSceneBackground) LayoutPos=top Layout=FillLayout()>
<WallpaperView Id=atom(idScene) Thumbnail=false Active=0 Enabled=false Height=rcint("msgr",654) AddBehavior=DUI::ShowHide()/>
</Element>
<Element LayoutPos=top id=atom(idSceneEdge) Background=rcbkd("msgr",4301) Height=rcint("msgr",4111) AddBehavior=DUI::ShowHide()/></*PlusSkin*>
<*PlusSkin Conditions(RemoveSceneLogon = true) *><Element Id=atom(idSceneBackground) LayoutPos=none Layout=FillLayout()>
<WallpaperView Id=atom(idScene) Thumbnail=false Active=0 Enabled=false Height=rcint("msgr",654) AddBehavior=DUI::ShowHide()/>
</Element>
<Element LayoutPos=none id=atom(idSceneEdge) Background=rcbkd("msgr",4301) Height=rcint("msgr",4111) AddBehavior=DUI::ShowHide()/></*PlusSkin*>

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(note that scene can be removed with a BoolVal and backgrounds can be changed with Multivals)
And that white field in the midle, isn't messenger's default, but ID 4302

Looks very good I will download your skin when it's released

I think it's that for now =X
Later on I add some functionality, when I discover how to do it again...
Just making the .reg surprise for those who don't like the clickable thing that you should click to support messenger (we can't officially remove... "it") and the Options Panel =)
Maybe I'll release it tomorrow =P

I'm impressed of your work blessedguy. If you are releasing the skin, you will be the first one who have created a compatible skin for the newest WLM

In fact, mynetx has already released his skin for WLM 14.0 =)
(Plus! Patch)

Download

Great skin with many backgrounds for the contact list and the login screen Great job