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is there anyway to change all the Msg plus! buttons??
i've extracted msg plus! resources and there is no resource for it...
(has anyone tried to skin plus?)

i think you can but no skin i've used does it

There's a page in the documentation called Skinning Messenger Plus! Itself.

Read it online here or download it here.

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Originally posted by blessedguy
is there anyway to change all the Msg plus! buttons??
i've extracted msg plus! resources and there is no resource for it...
(has anyone tried to skin plus?)

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NanaFreak tried to do it, but had some problems with titles and stuff.  I think Patchou was going to try and fix the problems but he hasnt had a chance to do it yet with 4.50

Skinning Plus is not a friendly process just yet as it is works a bit different to how Windows Live Messenger is skinned. It's just a matter of know where things are at and how to work with the interface (which I am still trying to figure out at the moment )

I'm sure in the future we will see some more flexibility when it comes to skinning plus.

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Originally posted by Willz
Skinning Plus is not a friendly process just yet as it is works a bit different to how Windows Live Messenger is skinned. It's just a matter of know where things are at and how to work with the interface (which I am still trying to figure out at the moment )

I'm sure in the future we will see some more flexibility when it comes to skinning plus.

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It follows the same methods as the script interfaces, which is pretty straight forward and customizable.  However this is different from skinning the likes of messenger.

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Originally posted by markee
It follows the same methods as the script interfaces, which is pretty straight forward and customizable.  However this is different from skinning the likes of messenger.

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Yeah I'm just really used to Messengers way of doing things old habits die hard

One of the issues for me is that there is no conditional resource replacements, so a skin like Ev0 (which uses color themes) would not be able to be done properly in Plus! with the current system. Its sort of the reason why the most i've skinned in Plus is just the Alerts toast.

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Originally posted by Willz
Yeah I'm just really used to Messengers way of doing things old habits die hard

One of the issues for me is that there is no conditional resource replacements, so a skin like Ev0 (which uses color themes) would not be able to be done properly in Plus! with the current system. Its sort of the reason why the most i've skinned in Plus is just the Alerts toast.

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In 4.50 there was the addition of being able to colorize images to what the current color is set for messenger.  This can be partly applied to the images or it can be nothing, or always slightly changing the sat, hue and brightness as a constant.  I don't think this works perfectly with skins, but with the addition of a script then we might b able to do something about that.... it wouldn't be easy though....

ok...thanks for the help...
I think skinning Plus interfaces is pretty EZ (at least Custom Panel was...), but i tried with Plus! resources (and interface windows) and nothing has changed at all!!
although...MP Interface Tester stays saying that my new resources are there... dunno why they aren't replaced...
Oh...Patchou, you could teach lil better how to skin Msg Plus! itself...the skinning guide almost doesn't mention it, or at least doesn't give a working example, like the (well done!) skinning Messenger only part...
anyone knows if release 4.51 has any improvment with the skinning system?