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Everytime i change the background on my contact list the picture seems to mess up. All the colours go funny and pixels mess up. Also the pictures don't seem to fit right.

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Originally posted by giveitdeath
Everytime i change the background on my contact list the picture seems to mess up. All the colours go funny and pixels mess up. Also the pictures don't seem to fit right.

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Just go to C:/Program files/Msn messenger and change lvback.gif to the background image you want.
Note:Has to be .gif and make sure you rename your chosen background to lvback.gif

Ive tried that and im still getting the same problem, the pictures distorted.

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Originally posted by giveitdeath
Ive tried that and im still getting the same problem, the pictures distorted.

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You can't do anything, the background image will still be distorted no matter what image you put.

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Originally posted by xJ +

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Originally posted by giveitdeath
Ive tried that and im still getting the same problem, the pictures distorted.

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You can't do anything, the background image will still be distorted no matter what image you put.

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Why is that?

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Originally posted by giveitdeath
Everytime i change the background on my contact list the picture seems to mess up. All the colours go funny and pixels mess up. Also the pictures don't seem to fit right.

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Both things have got nothing todo with the script. All the script does is copying/renaming your image to lvback.gif so it can be used by Messenger as the background. It does nothing more as what you manually would do.

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Originally posted by Jimbodude
Note:Has to be .gif

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Absolutely not. It can be any image format which is supported nativly by Windows, which includes: BMPs, DIBs, EMFs, GIFs, ICOs, JPGs, PNGs, RLEs, TIFs, WMFs, etc...

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Originally posted by giveitdeath
Also the pictures don't seem to fit right.

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That is because Messenger itself stretches the image according to the contactlist size.



PS: if you want to post about a particular script, first use the search feature of the forum to find a/the thread about that script and continue in there instead of making yet another thread about it... Also, by searching you could have found why the image wasn't what you expected it to be since that has been explained also before

Is there anyway of finding out the contact list size so i can resize my pic to fit?

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Originally posted by CookieRevised

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Originally posted by Jimbodude
Note:Has to be .gif

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Absolutely not. It can be any image format which is supported nativly by Windows, which includes: BMPs, DIBs, EMFs, GIFs, ICOs, JPGs, PNGs, RLEs, TIFs, WMFs, etc...

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CookieRevised, I think you are wrong. I tested using other format but the messenger itself can't read any of them. The only format so far is .gif unfortunately.

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Originally posted by giveitdeath
Is there anyway of finding out the contact list size so i can resize my pic to fit?

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I would printscreen my mesenger, paste it on any paint program that has got the crop feature. I crop the contact list space thereafter, and check the image size of that cropped out part.
Unfortunately, I have no other alternative ways to find out, hopefully someone will know the fasteest and easiest. Otherwise you have to use my method.

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Originally posted by xJ +

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Originally posted by CookieRevised

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Originally posted by Jimbodude
Note:Has to be .gif

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Absolutely not. It can be any image format which is supported nativly by Windows, which includes: BMPs, DIBs, EMFs, GIFs, ICOs, JPGs, PNGs, RLEs, TIFs, WMFs, etc...

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CookieRevised, I think you are wrong. I tested using other format but the messenger itself can't read any of them. The only format so far is .gif unfortunately.

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I'm sorry to say, but I'm totally correct...

Messenger does not use own code to read the file, but uses the general Windows API or whatever is in the system32 DLLs to read the images, hence it can read all those formats since they are nativly supported by Windows by those system DLLs.

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Originally posted by CookieRevised
I'm sorry to say, but I'm totally correct...

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You are correct, however you should have said more explicitly that the file extension needs to be changed to GIF even though it is of a different format (I tested this with a jpg just to confirm).