Shoutbox

could a script or patch be made that could change the color of the flashing to a different color than orange? or say assign a different color of your choice to each minimized contact's window?

No, you can't change the colour of the flashing animation in the task bar.

This is because the flashing background is defined in the currently selected Windows visual style, which can depend from system to system. Actually, the background isn't a simple colour, it is a replacement image for the 'normal' task bar button background. Therefore, to change the colour of it, you'd have to change the visual style in run-time or something (which is almost impossible, given that you need a patched uxtheme.dll to apply non-signed styles) or draw the button yourself in some way. None of these methods are easy to implement or certain to work properly, so I recommend you to drop the idea of colouring the flashing background... unless someone else says otherwise.

hmm never realized it was that complicated, thanks

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Originally posted by Mattike
No, you can't change the colour of the flashing animation in the task bar.

This is because the flashing background is defined in the currently selected Windows visual style, which can depend from system to system. Actually, the background isn't a simple colour, it is a replacement image for the 'normal' task bar button background. Therefore, to change the colour of it, you'd have to change the visual style in run-time or something (which is almost impossible, given that you need a patched uxtheme.dll to apply non-signed styles) or draw the button yourself in some way. None of these methods are easy to implement or certain to work properly, so I recommend you to drop the idea of colouring the flashing background... unless someone else says otherwise.

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Would it be possible to do on the WLM plus tabbed chats?

Or would that be a similar problem just in another place?

This is already possible with a quick registry edit or by using the enhancer script (you can search for either)

its not msn or wlm its the windows ui there is freeware out that allows you to dissable it everywhere in all your programmes

a quick google search will help you...

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Originally posted by SpunkyLoveMuff
This is already possible with a quick registry edit or by using the enhancer script (you can search for either)

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I'm already using the enhancer script and I see nothing about changing the color of tabbed chats.

Might have got the name confused; I mean the tweaker script by Choli

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Originally posted by SpunkyLoveMuff
Might have got the name confused; I mean the tweaker script by Choli

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The Messenger Plus! Tweak Live script does nothing more than giving you some sort of GUI to modify the special registry keys provided by Plus!.

Take a look at the script's code, it might be a good start. I haven't succeeded in changing the flash colour for the tabs, but maybe that's because I'm using the Windows Aero Messenger skin at the moment.