Shoutbox

Hi everybody!
I'm using a dark theme for windows, and MSN Messenger uses the black background for the contact list and the convo window text areas, so text is unreadable totally...
Would it be possible to change the background colour to white with a script? And if so, could anybody start me in the right direction to make a script for it? (I'm okay at JavaScript, but I don't know much about WinAPI)

Try Background Changer 1.0, if you want a fully white background you can make yourself a fully white image

Edit: for background ideas have a look on http://www.grsites.com/textures (posibillities are endless with the background changer script).

Thanks, but the bigger problem still exists - I can't see the conversations

Well if it is your windows theme that is causing the problem no amount of scripts will change the backround... For your text maybe you could make it a colour that stands out in your font options, and you could maybe set a background images in the conversation windows.

Cloudy

Why of course it's changable! The convo windows are but simple windows forms as well, so the background of the text areas inside are changable, unfortunately I don't know how
And what I can't do is change the blahblah is writing: text's colour... It's pretty annoying that way. Also, the normal backgrounds of MSN will only work on the main form's canvas, not on the text areas, so it's about useless for me

Well yea backgrounds are there to adjust the background of conversation windows (simply drag and drop a picture in the main field where the conversation gathers) and now with the script you can do the same for the contactlist. Adjusting the font used by/inside the program is something else.

A solution for that: exclude Windows Live Messenger from the theme. I mean you can adjust WLM to fit your theming in colours from itself already.

Nope, can't do, at least to my best knowledge. I'm using a shell skinner named WindowBlinds, and I can exclude a program from the skin, but not from the colour sheme. Tho, if there's a way to tell windows to skin a proggy with xyz theme, then please tell me where!

There have been problems reported with WindowBlinds before (tabbed chats getting smaller etc.) so i advice to exlude WLM from it anyway.

Have you tried to change the colours of WLM itself already (see picture)?

-_- Yes I have

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Originally posted by Speeder
-_- Yes I have

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How about you post a screenshot of your conversation window because to be honest what you said made no sense. I had atleast 5 reasons going through my head.

Better yet take a fullscreen screenshot of a convo window and your contact list. It will help us out.