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This probably sounds stupid but.. answer please.

In the introduction to skinning you can dl from plus!live in the 'Your first skin' directory, it gets you to do a practical when u put in a pic heres the coding..

<SkinInfo>
    <Information>
        <Name>Testskin</Name>
    </Information>

    <MessengerSkin>
        <ResGroup>
            <Restrictions>
                <MsgVersions>
                    <Version Major="8" Minor="5"/>
                </MsgVersions>
            </Restrictions>

            <Resources>
                <Replace>
                    <Strings>
                        <String Id="61288">Remember me?</String>
                    </Strings>

                    <Graphics><Pictures>
                        <Picture Id="20061">
                            <File>clouds.jpg</File>
                        </Picture>
                    </Pictures></Graphics>
                </Replace>
            </Resources>

        </ResGroup>
    </MessengerSkin>
</SkinInfo>

Is this just restricted to 8.5 and if so whats the code for plus? Please reply

yes, with this code the skin would just be restricted to version 8.5 as specified in the "msgversions" tag

in order to add compatibilty for version 9 you'd need to change it to

code:

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<MsgVersions>
          <Version Major="9" Minor="0"/>
</MsgVersions>

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string and picture ids, as well as style sheets, etc would all be different with version 9.....but you can extract the resources (via the skinning page of plus preferences) and work through to find what you need

Thanks for the quick reply and the help

When u use the Plus!4.50, you can "encode" or "extract" the important files. The used window styles, pictures, msgres.***.txt. And you can extract the Plus! window styles, icons...and others...so, if you wanna change anything in a windows live messenger or in a plus skin, you use this "way" -> Open the contact list window, press the ALT and on a top, press the PLUS!, click to the Options (or tools), choose the 4. page (maybe Costumization) and on the left, choose the Theme! . On the down, near the Theme-makers (maybe For Theme-makers ) use the Extract means. If u cant find this, i send a picture (but my plus is hungarian xD, so i make an art for you )
Good Luck

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Originally posted by TRash19
When u use the Plus!4.50, you can "encode" or "extract" the important files. The used window styles, pictures, msgres.***.txt. And you can extract the Plus! window styles, icons...and others...so, if you wanna change anything in a windows live messenger or in a plus skin, you use this "way" -> Open the contact list window, press the ALT and on a top, press the PLUS!, click to the Options (or tools), choose the 4. page (maybe Costumization) and on the left, choose the Theme! . On the down, near the Theme-makers (maybe For Theme-makers ) use the Extract means. If u cant find this, i send a picture (but my plus is hungarian xD, so i make an art fort you )
Good Luck

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Thanks that helped a hell of a lot