Shoutbox

I am sure that the mistake is in my SkinInfo file since I tried replacing the Interface of Evo with mine and when I opened Evo, it displayed the Option Panel perfect. Of course the options weren't working but at least I know where the problem is. Please take a look at it.

try that

Ii didn't work. I had it tried it too.

zip up the whole skin and ill take a look for you basilis as without seeing your directory structure  and maybe the options panel itll be difficult to fix.

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Originally posted by stuartbennett
tried that and patchou has done a poor job of trying to explain it it makes no sense what so ever just reading it it has to compare your code to itself and tell you what youve done wrong to be any use please help.

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That's because there's not much to explain, I suppose a few properties could require further description but most of it is self-explanatory. Everything you can put in your code is there, for example if you want to change the font colour of a Static Control:

Example current code:

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<Control xsi:type="StaticControl" Id="lblBla">
    <Position Top="35" Width="150" Left="15"/>
    <Caption>Bla bla</Caption>
</Control>

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Click on 'StaticControl'
Wow, theres a diagram with a whole bunch of properties I can set for static controls and a 'Color' option available to me

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<Control xsi:type="StaticControl" Id="lblBla">
    <Position Top="35" Width="150" Left="15"/>
    <Caption>Bla bla</Caption>
    <Color>

    </Color>
</Control>

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Click 'Color' -> You'll see that it has more properties nested under that (Red, Green, Blue are probably the most important).

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<Control xsi:type="StaticControl" Id="lblBla">
    <Position Top="35" Width="150" Left="15"/>
    <Caption>Bla bla</Caption>
    <Color>
        <Red></Red>
        <Green></Green>
        <Blue></Blue>
    </Color>
</Control>

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Click 'Red' -> That's the end of the line - I no longer have a diagram, but rather some details telling me the type of value accepted (unsignedByte <-- This just means an integer from 0 to (2^8 - 1), that is 0 to 255, you don't really need to know this though as it explains the accepted value range right underneath), the minimum value accepted (0), and the maximum value accepted (255).

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<Control xsi:type="StaticControl" Id="lblBla">
    <Position Top="35" Width="150" Left="15"/>
    <Caption>Bla bla</Caption>
    <Color>
        <Red>150</Red>
        <Green></Green>
        <Blue></Blue>
    </Color>
</Control>

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Go back (hit the back button) and do the same for 'Green' and 'Blue' -> You'll find that they accept similar inputs as 'Red' did:

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<Control xsi:type="StaticControl" Id="lblBla">
    <Position Top="35" Width="150" Left="15"/>
    <Caption>Bla bla</Caption>
    <Color>
        <Red>150</Red>
        <Green>123</Green>
        <Blue>255</Blue>
    </Color>
</Control>

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while that works on the text, it doesnt help me change the background and theres nothing in the documentation about that.

Can it be the fact that I am using a messenger that is translated to Greek so that

<OptionInterface>
            <InterfaceDir>Options</InterfaceDir>
            <InterfaceFile>OptInterfaces.xml</InterfaceFile>
            <WindowIds>
                <WindowId Language="en-us">SkinOpt</WindowId>
               </WindowIds>
        </OptionInterface>   

is not working?

I mean the "en-us" should it be "en-gr" for example?

No:

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Originally posted by Skinning Docs
You'll notice that "en-us" was specified as the window's language. A Language attribute is required for every <WindowId> element and in this case, it simply means that the text in the window is displayed in English. The system allows you to create localized versions of the window but you don't have to do that if you don't want to. One <WindowId> element can be specified for each language code that you support (Messenger Plus! compares the code with the one specified in Messenger) and if no matching language can be found, the first window in the list is loaded and its language code is ignored.

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Can you please download my attachment and see what I should add in order to make it work? As I said, I tested it on skylines and evo and it was working so there must be a difference between evo's&skylines's SkinInfoes with mine

Try adding a picture enough big so that it covers the whole window. If the text has a clear color, then it will be displayed just perfect.