Shoutbox

As the tittle says im new to skinning and new to codding.

1. How do you change the text colour of things? Eg the text colour of string "61288".

2. I have the code

code:

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<String Id="698">%1 just sent you a
nudge. I strongly recommend nudging them back for revenge!</String>

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Im using  %1 as thats the variable they use(in the file msglang_strings which is how you find what each string says and does) to stick in someones name on that string. But aparantly, it doesnt work like that with the skinInfo page, as when someone nudges me it says "%1" instead of the name.

3. Would anyone like to test my skin so far for messenger 8.5? I dont have it so im a little helpless(I have 9).Ansewered

Ive attatched a slightly older version of my skin(picture only) to this attatchment.If anyone is willing to test i will add another attatchment with the skin files (Ive changend a few things since the time of that screenshot, i want to get it a little bit more finnalised before i make a newer one(werid i know))

4. I would also like to change the backround colour of conversation windows.
Thank you in advance!

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Originally posted by mattisdada
3. Would anyone like to test my skin so far for messenger 8.5? I dont have it so im a little helpless(I have 9).

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I'm not totally sure but I think the resources in 8.5 are different so someone would need to extract them for you and send it to you so that you can edit them (as you did with 9.0) and then package them.
If you read the Skinning docs, you can have different resources for different skins. Just use the restrictions for versions before adding resources which are different for 8.5 and 9.0

So ive heard. Well, does anyone have 8.5 packages that they can send to me So i can at least START to develop for them?

By the way, thanks for the quick reply

Here is the skin so far with minor 8.5 changes. It might work.... but heres me doubting it.

And if anyone is wanting to use it for 9.0 or just wants to bug test it, feel free to add it.

Thanks

hey matt

i know that screenshot is early days yet but it looks pretty good so far, i think the custom scrollbars were a nice touch i may try to implement something like that in the next version of my skin as its a pretty cool idea.

i have zipped up the 8.5 resources for you and attached them to this post, however its a 4.52 megabyte file so depending on how fast your internet connection is it might take some time to download, also im not to sure on the size restrictions on this forum for file attachments so it might not attach.

EDIT:

as i feared it didnt attach due to the size of the file, however i have got your email address from your profile and have emailed the resources to you, i do have 8.5 installed over here on my dads pc so am happy to do some testing for you.

Any WLM 9.0 UIfile will only work under WLM 9.0. It is not backwards compatible nor will it be compatible with say wlm 9.5 or 10 (the next major version)

The same goes for 8.5. 8.5 UIfile code is for 8.5 only.

I've explained the reason why it is like that so many times that i can't be bothered now so if you really wanna know just look at my tutorial thread.

http://shoutbox.menthix.net/showthread.php?tid=79906

*Also even if you didn't touch UIFile code and only did image replaces it won't work properly since 9.0 has a lot of image ID changes.

thats very true wills, in my skin i have compatability for 8.5 and 9.0 in total i noticed that 3 images had different id's in 9.0 to what they were in 8.5 but some did stay the same. if he created 2 subfolders in his skins directory 1 for 8.5 and 1 for 9.0 puts the relevant versions uifiles in the corresponding directory and creates a resgroup for each version then it should work on both.

now willz is a skin tutorial expert so i do recommend taking a look at his tutorial cause even if the answers you need arent in there now they will be eventually.

Thanks for all the great replys .

@stuartbennett. Thanks for your comments and thanks for the resource files!

@Willz I did understand this, but, i was looking through some of the simpler skins made, and there was only 1 or 2 restriction changes.

Thanks alot guys!

But i really need the first 2 questions ansewer also(and the 4th one)

EDIT: And i dont plan on making a skin as complicated as yours willz(Very talented skinner you are, i havent acctually used it(since its not for 9) but i had a look through your scripting, very nice )

Oh, and to get you on your way maybe use a different editor, one with syntax highlighting!

My preference is notepad++ and I recommend that you use it

http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net/uk/site.htm

Keep at it

I like UltraEdit(UEStudio in specific). Its great! I didnt really like Notepad++ 5 years ago. I might give it another go now though, should've changend at least a bit..... but yes, i need to have my first 2(and 4th) questions ansewered

you cant edit the colour of a string just by itself, you need to find it in the UIFile code under the styles section and then use the foreground tag to change its colour for each and every instance (and thats if its there)

secondly, any string you replace is static and can not contain any dynamic content in it.