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Originally posted by Kebne
Hi, 
I am currently modifying a dark skin to a high-contrast skin for people with vision loss. I have understood that the text-color in the inputareacont cant be changed, only the background. But hey.. If using windows hi-contrast colour scheme then the black turns white anyway. Great so far.. But now I struggle with changing the "says" line in the conversation history part of the conversation window.
I have tried to change every instance of "foreground color" in the 920 style file to rgb(255,255,255) and give it a try, but then an error occur and messenger cant open a conversation window. I guess this is a beginners fault. But still I am quite shocked to see how hard it is to change colours in messenger. One reason is that I haven't found a complete reference list to all the existing elements in messenger.
Yeah if you are talking in terms of skins you can't permanently change the color of text in several areas. We just don't have control over them.
This includes:
The chat history area (where all your messages that have been sent show)
The typing area (where you type your messages)
Certain messages that appear in the information bar
The Messenger Plus! chat tabs
Certain window messages
If you are editing the skin looking to change these things then you are wasting your time since it can't be done. Its a technical limitation in Messenger, Messenger skinning is not an easy task it is very tedious and time consuming
btw if you are modding a skin don't forget to ask the creator for permission first.
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