Shoutbox

Well vista skins is something I have not touched in a while now and many people are wondering if Windows Aero Messenger and Vista Live Messenger will ever be upgraded.

Well this is just a post to say that construction is well under way and the new update is something that will excite. I will be going at this skin solo as Stianu89 is now on a Macbook and can't really help with the update of Vista Live Messenger.

Anyway it will all fall under Windows Aero Messenger 2. The update will be really different to the original skin. How different? Well for starters there is no default theme (well there sort of is but meh).

Users will be able to pick pretty much every aspect of how they want their skin to look, from frame style right up to buddy color and pearl types.

Now for a small demonstration:



The first is a screen shot of the Aero Dark theme. Nothing new right? Well lets mix things up a bit with some user settings:



So I went into the options panel and changed two settings which has caused the skin to change slightly. This is what I mean by a theme generator, there will be a large amount of variation that a user can make. The beauty of this system will be that people can mix and match themes and can also easily switch from Windows Aero Messenger to Vista Live Messenger.

Well I'll finish this up by putting screen shot of the options panel so far. This is nowhere near final so you haven't seen nothing yet.




Remember this is FAR FROM FINISHED, so yeah keep that in mind

One vista skin to rule them all . Nice!

umm, HOT!

though will you be able to do fully Aero stuff?

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Originally posted by MenthiX
One vista skin to rule them all . Nice!

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Willz is still in possession of my vistafy skin, said he was going to take a look at it and adjust something then send back..... Bastard

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Originally posted by NanaFreak
umm, HOT!

though will you be able to do fully Aero stuff?

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Well if you mean glass of course not, but using the plus transparency does work pretty well. Its pretty much as close you will get.

I have found a cheap way of getting fade animations for buttons but yeah don't know if I will implement it

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Originally posted by aNILEator

Willz is still in possession of my vistafy skin, said he was going to take a look at it and adjust something then send back..... Bastard

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LOL, I totally forgot about that be sure to remind me later on because knowing me ill forget again.

damn, glass would be really awesome... we need you to work with patchou to make it work

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Originally posted by Willz

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Originally posted by aNILEator

Willz is still in possession of my vistafy skin, said he was going to take a look at it and adjust something then send back..... Bastard

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LOL, I totally forgot about that be sure to remind me later on because knowing me ill forget again.

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I already reminded you loads and your never on WLM now anyway posted a thread so you won't forget now! remember it's the chat window gradient thing that needed fixing., also I think you still have my other skin too with fixed word wheel element bug (that you implemented in the first place )?

Erm.. too many slanty cross white line things from the first pic. Seems as though you've over done it
The options window looks good though

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Originally posted by John Anderton
Erm.. too many slanty cross white line things from the first pic. Seems as though you've over done it
The options window looks good though

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Like I said early preview, I haven't updated any resources from the previous versions plus If you aren't a fan of that particular background there are plenty of others to choose from.

I like all the options you are putting into it such as the colour and type of the buddy icons.

Looks great can't wait until it's ready. Keep up the good work Willz.