Shoutbox

how can your skin remove the aero borders from messenger 2009 as i am struggling to get rid of it from my 365 skin?

Add shaping to your skin and it will remove the aero border (although you don't have to actually change the shape)

something like this:

xml code:

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    <Region>
        <ContactList>
        <Rectangle>
                <Left>0</Left>
                <Top>0</Top>
                <Width Unit="percent">100</Width>
                <Height Unit="percent">100</Height>
            </Rectangle>
        </ContactList>
    </Region>

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will set the shape of the skin to a rectangle (as it is anyway) and remove the aero

or if you want true non-aero and rounded top corners:

xml code:

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<Region>
        <ContactList>
                <Rectangle>
                <Left>0</Left>
                <Top>0</Top>
                <Width Unit="percent">100</Width>
                <Height Unit="percent">100</Height>
            </Rectangle>
            <Image Integration="subtract">
                <Source>
                    <File>images/shape/corner-tl.png</File>
                </Source>
            <Position>
                <Left>0</Left>
                <Top>0</Top>
            </Position>
            </Image>
            <Image Integration="subtract">
                <Source>
                    <File>images/shape/corner-tr.png</File>
                </Source>
            <Position>
                <Right>0</Right>
                <Top>0</Top>
            </Position>
            </Image>
        </ContactList>
    </Region>

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Attached is the top right hand corner image, just flip it to get the left one

thanks danny that worked perfectly.

well there's a registry hack to remove all the time, but tht may not be wat ur looking for.
heres the location of the hack, and a program which will do it for you: http://www.mydigitallife.info/2009/01/09/enable-o...ith-auto-switcher/

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Originally posted by wta121
well there's a registry hack to remove all the time, but tht may not be wat ur looking for.

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It's not....as you can see he wants it for the skin itself

And he already said thanks?

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Originally posted by stuartbennett
thanks danny that worked perfectly.

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That isn't useful for skinning, skins aren't able to make registry changes, but registry changes related with options. Maybe Patchou could include something to disable it through the SkinInfo file.

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Originally posted by robert_dll
That isn't useful for skinning, skins aren't able to make registry changes, but registry changes related with options. Maybe Patchou could include something to disable it through the SkinInfo file.

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I've already requested this in the beta forums.....i might give it another gentle nudge

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Originally posted by djdannyp

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Originally posted by robert_dll
That isn't useful for skinning, skins aren't able to make registry changes, but registry changes related with options. Maybe Patchou could include something to disable it through the SkinInfo file.

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I've already requested this in the beta forums.....i might give it another gentle nudge

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but danny the method you gave me does disable aero through the skininfo file? i will admit that being able to change registry settings not related to a skins options directly from skininfo would be cool but what would you use it for, anything that involves changing the registry would be to service an option so how would it be any different to the way things are?

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Originally posted by stuartbennett
but danny the method you gave me does disable aero through the skininfo file? i will admit that being able to change registry settings not related to a skins options directly from skininfo would be cool but what would you use it for, anything that involves changing the registry would be to service an option so how would it be any different to the way things are?

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Well, it would mean that Plus! doesn't actually have to "shape" skin but simply does the Aero disabling stuff. Instead of shaping the skin to get the Aero disabled as a side-effect, you could have something which only focuses on disabling Aero - which I think is far more efficient.

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Originally posted by Matti

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Originally posted by stuartbennett
but danny the method you gave me does disable aero through the skininfo file? i will admit that being able to change registry settings not related to a skins options directly from skininfo would be cool but what would you use it for, anything that involves changing the registry would be to service an option so how would it be any different to the way things are?

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Well, it would mean that Plus! doesn't actually have to "shape" skin but simply does the Aero disabling stuff. Instead of shaping the skin to get the Aero disabled as a side-effect, you could have something which only focuses on disabling Aero - which I think is far more efficient.

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oh now i see what you mean, but would this be the only thing such a feature would be used for? remember in order for Patchou to take all the time and effort required to add a feature into messenger plus it has to be something that firstly a lot of people are going to utilize and secondly a feature that does more than just that 1 change, Patchou could argue that because there is already a mechanism for getting rid of the aero effect it can't be justified to add the feature just for that one use, but if it had several processing saving uses to enhance a skins performance then it would be more justifiable for Patchou to put in the extra work required to create this feature.

i am not trying to be difficult i am just trying to defend Patchou's perspective on why he hasn't already made this feature and why he may perhaps not see it as a big priority right now.