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In the next version of my skin, it'll have a option to move the wordwheel, so how would i make it so if it was set to the top it'll have the 379 and 380 images that i made, but if it was at the bottom it would just be white, using the default images..

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Originally posted by duck!
In the next version of my skin, it'll have a option to move the wordwheel, so how would i make it so if it was set to the top it'll have the 379 and 380 images that i made, but if it was at the bottom it would just be white, using the default images..

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duck how did you move word wheel to the bottom like that? its just with my colours id have no way of knowing exactly what colour to use in the top location but in the botttom location i know itd be the yellow in my skin so could colour it easier, also duck if you know how to do the background on word well could you please help me with it?

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Originally posted by stuartbennett

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Originally posted by duck!
In the next version of my skin, it'll have a option to move the wordwheel, so how would i make it so if it was set to the top it'll have the 379 and 380 images that i made, but if it was at the bottom it would just be white, using the default images..

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duck how did you move word wheel to the bottom like that? its just with my colours id have no way of knowing exactly what colour to use in the top location but in the botttom location i know itd be the yellow in my skin so could colour it easier, also duck if you know how to do the background on word well could you please help me with it?

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to move it to the bottom, open up your 1001 definitions txt and find the line

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<Element LayoutPos=Top Layout=BorderLayout() BorderThickness=rect(0,0,0,1) Padding=Rect(0,0,2,0) ID=Atom(ai550)>

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Simply change Layoutpos=Top to LayoutPos=Bottom

As for the background, either create a 27x37 image, put what ever color you want the wordwheel to be, or user the extract tool in MP!L then navigate to Graphics - Pictures - and open msgres_4000_379.png change the color outside of the rectangle if you want it to leave a white bit in the middle where the actual search bar is, then save it to your skins directory, add it to your skininfo.xml
For example

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<Graphics><Pictures>
                                         <Picture Id="379">
                           <File>images/wordwheel.png</File>
                        </Picture> 
                        <Picture Id="380">
                            <File>images/wordwheel2.png</File>
                     </Picture>
</Graphics></Pictures>

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Also i used mouseymoo a script which detects the rgb color depending on your mouse position

Ive attached the image i used to skin the wordwheel, if its any help

p.s I cant Explain that well, maybe some skinner could expand on my brief explanation

thanjks duck. im sorry for all the grief i have given everyone regarding this, its just when im stressed i tend to take my frustrations out on others even though they are only trying to help, once again im sorry for anything i may have said to upset anyone.

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Originally posted by duck!
well that worked and moved it to the bottom.. but from the toolbar going down the contact list background there is a dodgy grey bit which looks dodgy, how would i remove that
See attachyment

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There are two ways to get rid of it:

1. Remove it from code completely, but the better way to do it is:

2. Add this to your SkinInfo.xml file between the replace brackets:

<Picture Id="668"><File>null.png</File></Picture>

ID 668 is the shadow . If you wanna remove it from the CONVO window, just replace 668 with 1654 . And make "null.png" transparent.

Pretty much we're replacing the shadow with a 100% transparent image .

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Originally posted by Keikonium

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Originally posted by duck!
well that worked and moved it to the bottom.. but from the toolbar going down the contact list background there is a dodgy grey bit which looks dodgy, how would i remove that
See attachyment

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There are two ways to get rid of it:

1. Remove it from code completely, but the better way to do it is:

2. Add this to your SkinInfo.xml file between the replace brackets:

<Picture Id="668"><File>null.png</File></Picture>

ID 668 is the shadow . If you wanna remove it from the CONVO window, just replace 668 with 1654 . And make "null.png" transparent.

Pretty much we're replacing the shadow with a 100% transparent image .

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ive seen this done in nightfall skin so what is 1655 for then?

You remove all borders on the contact list elements, by replacing BorderThickness=Rect(X,X,X,X). where X is any number. Replace it with BorderThickness=Rect(0,0,0,0).

thanks for explaining null.png i like not having those shadows