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O.P. Help, Compatibility!
Hello friends, as you can see I´m a new user, hope you can help me, thanks in advance.

I made some skins for MSN 8.5 (working on photoshop & corel draw) from someones code and they work fine on it, but now im trying to make em compatible for 9.0 and 8.5 versions (its just i am so newbie), and I can´t figure out how to do that, I don´t know how to adapt this. So, I would really apreciate your help with this.

Thanks a lot for your time
Pd: Excuse my english please

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02-06-2008 10:31 PM
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RE: Help, Compatibility!
The first thing to do would be to get hold of the 9.0 resources as some of the picture ID's and the uifiles are different to 8.5

To extract resources go to Plus > Preferences > Custmoize! > Skins > Extract Resources

Having a read of the skinning documentation and willz skinning guide will also help you

Also have a read of the threads already created as you may find some of your answers there
02-06-2008 10:43 PM
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RE: Help, Compatibility!
And also check out Sunshine's thread: [How To] - Update Your Skin
02-07-2008 02:46 AM
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I advice you to use some files compare software to compare the styles and definition files from 8.5 with 9... and then you will have a huge help to figure out all the changed stuff :P that's my trick ;)!!!
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RE: Help, Compatibility!
[How To] - Update Your Skin

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If you forgot what you've altered, or just want to make sure everything is copied over and in the correct place you can use a comparing app such as AptDiff (freeware). Using a tool like this will make this task lots easier, you can even copy whole blocks from one file to the other.
02-07-2008 07:57 AM
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The first thing to do would be to get hold of the 9.0 resources as some of the picture ID's and the uifiles are different to 8.5

To extract resources go to Plus > Preferences > Custmoize! > Skins > Extract Resources

Having a read of the skinning documentation and willz skinning guide will also help you

Also have a read of the threads already created as you may find some of your answers there
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You forgot to mention that he has to download MSN 9.0( illegally) and then he will go to the preferences and extact the resources
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RE: Help, Compatibility!
Oh and an even simpler solution is to use Word's compare documents feature.
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Originally posted by freak544
The first thing to do would be to get hold of the 9.0 resources as some of the picture ID's and the uifiles are different to 8.5

To extract resources go to Plus > Preferences > Custmoize! > Skins > Extract Resources

Having a read of the skinning documentation and willz skinning guide will also help you

Also have a read of the threads already created as you may find some of your answers there
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You forgot to mention that he has to download MSN 9.0( illegally) and then he will go to the preferences and extact the resources

He could just ask someone that has 9.0 to extract the resources for him and send them to him via email in a zip file
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O.P. RE: Help, Compatibility!
Thanks to all, I just need the code necesary to put a contact list background on version 9.0, but i really need assistance cause i dont know what to put in the styles/definitions files, so i ask you guys, How could be the code for a skin with this conditions:
1. Compatible for both 8.5 & 9.0 versions
2. Change the main windows pictures
3. Background on contact list

I´m trying to read the skinning documents but its a little hard for me cause i dont speak english, writing this post took me about half an hour, I really apreciate what you´re doing.
Thanks to all



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