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the order doesn't change anything...There's nothing about that in the Skinning docs.

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Originally posted by Basilis
I don't think so. I have colorize before UMs and it works fine.

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XD Look closely at what he said...colorize before is the RIGHT way...you just agreed with what he said silly

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Originally posted by blessedguy
the order doesn't change anything...There's nothing about that in the Skinning docs.

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Just because it doesn't say that in the docs doesn't mean that the order doesn't matter. When they wrote the documentation they more than likely assume that you'd make it the same way as they did. They probably SHOULD have put a warning like that in there though if that was the case...

i got it right already...
just renamed directory tag

yes colorize has to preceed ums it cannot be placed after them, i did pick up on a few more syntax errors, its not that he typed anything wrong just that things were not in correct sequence, the only thing i will mentions is icon 724 blessedguy tryed to put an msgvsta source in there which isnt valid on icongroups it could be done on just normal icon but not icongroup, ive taken that line out so everything works and ill leave it with you to work out how you want to fix that blessedguy.

files attached in zip file

EDIT:

glad to hear that you fixed options panel but please download the new version of the skininfo as i think youll stil have problems with the old one based on what i saw in there. hope this helps.

Are you rly sure of the 724 icon thing?? I've based on Willz skinning guide and Evo's SkinInfo.xml (BASED, NOT COPIED) and he has done in that same way...and  according to what I know...in XML, the order of the blocks doesn't change anything...Just the Order of the "families"(for example...

<a>
<b></b><d></d><c></c>
</a>

being the same as:

<a>
<b></b><c></c><d></d>
</a>
and
<a>
<b></b>
</a>

being diffrent from

<b>
<a></b>
</a>)

If it is important...patchou should have included that in the skinning docs!!


Edit...And 724 DOES HAVE msgvista source..im in vista and the change of 724 hasn't been applied...it was working tough, with the msgvista source...

Edit: I will still "fix" that though

all i know is when i used the schema to validate the skininfo file it said that certain tags appeared where they wasnt expected, now i use xmlspy and on left hand side as you are positioned after or before a tag it tells you what text can be entered at that location and the order in which they need to be entered, i just followed that, yes i agree patchou should have put some kind of warning in the skinning documentation.

as for msgvsta thingy well you can try and see if it works, i dont doubt the image itself has a vista property as per willz skinning guide but according to the plusskin schema icongroup doesnt support it as a valiud source.

well heres howe i did my url

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            <Control xsi:type="LinkControl" Id="AboutUrl">
                <Position Top="0" Width="170" Left="280"/>
                    <TextColor>
                        <Red>255</Red>
                        <Green>255</Green>
                        <Blue>255</Blue>
                    </TextColor>
                <Caption>365 Skin: Created by UK Skins United (2007 - 2008)</Caption>
            </Control>

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sey linkcontrol to AboutUrl which gets its value from your skininfo file and set caption to whatever you want the wording to be.

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wasnt trying to double post here below is evidence of a post by blessedguy which i was expecting to be in between my last post and this one.

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blessedguy has just replied to a thread which you have subscribed to at the Messenger Plus! Live Forums. This thread is titled [HELP] Creating A Custom Skinops Panel. Here is an excerpt of the message:--well...right or not, it workedwith the msgvista source, and only with the msgvista source...and...just one last question...how to put your URL in the panel??(like clickable, with the website url but showing something like "website") I've tried

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that was taken from the notification email so as to what happened to the actual post i have no idea.

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Originally posted by stuartbennett
well heres howe i did my url



sey linkcontrol to AboutUrl which gets its value from your skininfo file and set caption to whatever you want the wording to be.

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Thks!!
But...is there anyway to remove that underlined thing from the caption??


(see attachment)

yes heres how i just did it on mine

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            <Control xsi:type="LinkControl" Id="AboutUrl">
                <Position Top="0" Width="170" Left="280"/>
                <Attributes>
                    <Underline>Never</Underline>
                </Attributes>
                    <TextColor>
                        <Red>255</Red>
                        <Green>255</Green>
                        <Blue>255</Blue>
                    </TextColor>
                <Caption>365 Skin: Created by UK Skins United (2007 - 2008)</Caption>
            </Control>

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after position you can put an attribute tag, attribute has 2 options these are

align
uderline

so i put an underline tag in, that has 3 options

always (akways underlined)
never (never underlined)
whenhot (underlined when you hover over it, otherwise not)

to acheive your desired effect choose never.

Thanks a lot!!