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Hello everyone

Does anyone know of a way to LOCK the conversation window and prevent it from being resized. I have backgrounds for all my conversations and when I open full screen programs that are not in my Native Resolution it resizes and crushes all my windows. Then I have to drag them open again and resize them properly.

So is there a way I can prevent the windows from being able to be resized at all or the size/shape of them changed in any way?

P.S I looked around before asking and I couldn't find anyone with the kind of... err... question that I have. So sorry.

Make a skin that prevents size change =)

Seems like a bit to much trouble to me. I'm happy with the low memory usage of the default skin and just the overall look of it. Besides I'm used to it.

I have no experience in skinning anyway.

Is that really the only way?

I don't know if scripting can do that, I've never read the scripting docs.
The way I know to do it is by using skins, if you like the deault one you can use Open Live, then you would just need to change this part, by editing the file SkinInfo.xml, that would be located at program Files/Messenger Plus! Live/Skins/Open Live:
(I've edited to be easier for you:
Green: just comments, as if they have never existed
Red: where you would change
Black: you don't need to bother with them, just let it the way it was.)

quote:

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    <!-- VII: Fixed Size Chat Window -->
           
           <!--  This section controls the sizing rules of the chat window. Here you can set a minimum and maximum size
        of the chat window. To make the chat window size fixed, simply set the minimum and maximum to the same value.
        To give a minimum size, but no maximum size, just include the minimum. To give a maximum size, but no minimum
        size, just include the maximum.
           
            -->
        <ChatWnd>
            <Size>
                <Width>
                    <Minimum>200</Minimum>
                    <!-- <Maximum>1024</Maximum> -->                      
                </Width>
                <Height>
                    <Minimum>300</Minimum>   
                    <!-- <Maximum>768</Maximum> -->           
                </Height>               
            </Size>                                               
        </ChatWnd>
       
        <!-- END OF FIXED SIZE CHAT WINDOW -->

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to this

quote:

---

    <!-- VII: Fixed Size Chat Window -->
           
           <!--  This section controls the sizing rules of the chat window. Here you can set a minimum and maximum size
        of the chat window. To make the chat window size fixed, simply set the minimum and maximum to the same value.
        To give a minimum size, but no maximum size, just include the minimum. To give a maximum size, but no minimum
        size, just include the maximum.
           
            -->
        <ChatWnd>
            <Size>
                <Width>
                    <Minimum>you choose</Minimum>
                    <Maximum>you choose</Maximum>                     
                </Width>
                <Height>
                    <Minimum>you choose</Minimum>   
                    <Maximum>you choose</Maximum>           
                </Height>               
            </Size>                                               
        </ChatWnd>
       
        <!-- END OF FIXED SIZE CHAT WINDOW -->

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For example, if you have a 1440 by 900 resolution, and you want the chat window to always be 1000x500 you would change it to:

quote:

---

    <!-- VII: Fixed Size Chat Window -->
           
           <!--  This section controls the sizing rules of the chat window. Here you can set a minimum and maximum size
        of the chat window. To make the chat window size fixed, simply set the minimum and maximum to the same value.
        To give a minimum size, but no maximum size, just include the minimum. To give a maximum size, but no minimum
        size, just include the maximum.
           
            -->
        <ChatWnd>
            <Size>
                <Width>
                    <Minimum>1000</Minimum>
                    <Maximum>1000</Maximum>                     
                </Width>
                <Height>
                    <Minimum>500</Minimum>   
                    <Maximum>500</Maximum>           
                </Height>               
            </Size>                                               
        </ChatWnd>
       
        <!-- END OF FIXED SIZE CHAT WINDOW -->

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In this example the chat window would always be 1000x500. Just choose the ones that you want =)