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is in posible to change the Color of the tabs or the text in the tabs in the chat window??

because as you can see on the screen shot i cannot se the contact names in the tabs

i am using the VISTA Ultimate 1.5.0 Skin and with a darker Colorscheme

this is something the skin developer has to fix theres no user definable option you can use to fix this, in order to fix it you have to go into the skininfo file and under <Options><MessengerPlus> you would set the <TabbedChatBar> parameter where the developer can set default colours that work best with there skin.

I'm interesting to that

Can you explain me how to done ? The code that I must changed

Thanks you

in the skininfo file after the closing information tag put the following.

quote:

---

    <!-- Options Panel -->
    <Options>
        <MessengerPlus>
            <AllowContactListChange>false</AllowContactListChange>
            <AllowChatWndChange>false</AllowChatWndChange>
            <TabbedChatBar>
                <Color1>
                    <R>179</R>
                    <G>240</G>
                    <B>255</B>
                </Color1>
                <Color2>
                    <R>255</R>
                    <G>157</G>
                    <B>157</B>
                </Color2>
            </TabbedChatBar>
        </MessengerPlus>
</Options>

---

that sets the tab colour to a light blue, the colours defined in colour 1 set the normal background colour, no idea what colour 2 is for though but it has to be set, you cannot have any text colour on the tabs except black so you need to pick a colour the looks good with black text on it.

Thanks Stuart, That has been useful for me, just one question, I can´t understand what do this lines mean:

         <AllowContactListChange>false</AllowContactListChange>
         <AllowChatWndChange>false</AllowChatWndChange>

What´s their purpose, what if I change their state to true, can you give me an idea plz?
Anyway Thx in advance

         <AllowContactListChange>false</AllowContactListChange>
         <AllowChatWndChange>false</AllowChatWndChange>

put simply these control plyus's own buttons in my skin i added options to choose whether the messenger plus buttons are hidden or not as i did them on an individual basis i found that plus put its buttons in alongside my copies so these 2 statements solve that

allowcontactlistchange lets you set whether or not plus uts in its own toolbar buttons or not and allowchatwndchange does same thing but for the 4 buttons in chat window, neither of these are needed to make tab colors work but as there in the same messengerplus group tag that i pasted from my skininfo for the above example they got copied with the rest of it.