This script provides a dialog to change/delete background images in the contact list.

Usage:

• Select change background in the contact lists plus menu
  
• /changebg filename in a chat

interesting, downloading, thanks

nice script, ill be writing a few myself when i get some time, look foward to sharing with everyone whenever i get around to it

Got any pre-made backgrounds Veggie? please and thank you

the browse button can't work.

it works with me..

Works here also

Thanks for the script! Excellent job

but I have a question. What are the restrictions on the picture? like... Colors and stuff. Whenever I try to put on a picture, it's like it's set on 256 colors or so

Hi, everyone. Post your best background you have for your contact list!
I have a question, on my comp this works great. On my other comp when i add a image it seems to have no effect. anyone else had this problem? is there certain permission a person needs to add a image to this?

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Originally posted by rhys100
Hi, everyone. Post your best background you have for your contact list!

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Originally posted by rhys100
I have a question, on my comp this works great. On my other comp when i add a image it seems to have no effect. anyone else had this problem? is there certain permission a person needs to add a image to this?

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This script bug with me, when i want to uninstall it ,
no problems...
but the image wont "disparaitre" er... ( sorry im not english >.> ) hide ?
no... Clear ? the image wont uninstall !
I try to uninstall Messenger Plus live ... nothing !
i try to uninstall msn messenger too ... nothing too !

aye , the image what i have choose it isnt beatifull v-v
i try to install the plugin but when i want to change image , wont work

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sorry for my bad english v-v

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Originally posted by kilhom
This script bug with me, when i want to uninstall it ,
no problems...
but the image wont "disparaitre" er... ( sorry im not english >.> ) hide ?
no... Clear ? the image wont uninstall !
I try to uninstall Messenger Plus live ... nothing !
i try to uninstall msn messenger too ... nothing too !

aye , the image what i have choose it isnt beatifull v-v
i try to install the plugin but when i want to change image , wont work

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sorry for my bad english v-v

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My heroes
Thx a lot !

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Originally posted by rhys100
seems to have no effect. anyone else had this problem? is there certain permission a person needs to add a image to this?

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k well there is a script called Background changer, but i put in my picture and it doesnt take up all of the page...is there a way to stretch the image?

You can always open up the image in MS Paint, or Photoshop, or another equivalent and stretch it yourself before using the background changer. Of course, this can result in loss of picture quality so you may be better off searching for a bigger version of the picture.

=O Good idea. I am using it right now. Now I don't have to convert the files into .gif! Still, why not / instead of ^ and have the command in Plus! command list?

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Originally posted by zVp
What are the restrictions on the picture? like... Colors and stuff. Whenever I try to put on a picture, it's like it's set on 256 colors or so

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Originally posted by zVp
What are the restrictions on the picture? like... Colors and stuff. Whenever I try to put on a picture, it's like it's set on 256 colors or so

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Yeah I would like the answer of this too!

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Originally posted by CookieRevised
The Background Changer script does nothing more than simply copying your own image to lvback.gif which is located in the main Messenger folder. Just as if you would manually copy your picture to the main Messenger folder, nothing more...

Since that is only what it is doing, any issues regarding wrong colors, no permissions, not loading the background, etc etc are caused by Windows Live Messenger itself...

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Greetings everybody! I had a problem, I hope you guys would help me out.
Recently I had download a script "background changer" located here: http://www.msgpluslive.net/scripts/browse/index.php?act=view&id=10

My problem is that, how do I change my background? I can't find any button or anything clickable to change my background. I already installed the script.

It should be in the Plus! menu under the Plus! icon on your contact list.

this script does not work... it dosent show in the plus! contact thing. and useing the / command doesnt work either.

please delete the script and re-install

Hei

I don't make scripts but I am a programmer so if I had time I guess I could do... but I don't have time so there for I turn to you out there who does and possibly the person who made this script originally...

The Background Changer script has one MAJOR bug.. yes.. see I run multiple messenger programs and if I change the background in one of them it changes for all of them.

Please could someone look into the possibility to update the scripts so that is does this. And please Quickly. I by default make different look to the different messenge rcontact lists so that I can easly tell them apart, so yes desperately need this.

Thanks,
Presley

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* The King has left the building*

There's no way to do this. Messenger reads the background out of LVBack.gif, and so you can't specify a different path for each instance of messenger. Hope that made sense

i made the script...
Sorry this cant be done, all it does is copy the image to lvback.gif in the wlm folder. This image cant be different for multiple wlms.

Oki thanks anyway....

next stop.. the WLM people... WML has a serious flaw!!!

Uhhh, no it doesn't. You're not supposed to be running more than one instance of WLM anyways. If you choose to modify the way that messenger does things, microsoft is not responsible for what happens.

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Originally posted by deAd
Uhhh, no it doesn't. You're not supposed to be running more than one instance of WLM anyways. If you choose to modify the way that messenger does things, microsoft is not responsible for what happens.

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To avoid the problem, maybe you can install multiple WLM in different directories ... so it will works ... maybe a strange, that's true but will work for sure

See you !

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Originally posted by Yil2201
To avoid the problem, maybe you can install multiple WLM in different directories ... so it will works ... maybe a strange, that's true but will work for sure

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I'm not sure if I am doing something wrong or if this script is just not compatible. I just recently updated to WLM 8.1.0178.00 and the background I set using this script does not appear. Its just blank. I am using Ev0 2.0, maybe that conflicts in some way. Thanks for any help.

Won't work on WLM 8.1.0178.00 without Ev0 either.. So I think it's the update causing the problem.
However, I have no fix as it doesn't seem to allow custom background anymore.

vikke

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Originally posted by vikke
Won't work on WLM 8.1.0178.00 without Ev0 either.. So I think it's the update causing the problem.
However, I have no fix as it doesn't seem to allow custom background anymore.

vikke

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Originally posted by Eddie
that really sucks , there has to be some way though

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Originally posted by vikke
There's always skinning/resource hacking.

vikke

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There could be new ways as well.. I think Stuffplug 3 is made so it should be possible, so try to ask over at their forums. I'm not 100% though.

vikke

Background Changer has got nothing todo with skinning or whatever. It just changes the lvlback file. And it works perfectly here with latest Messenger version (8.1.0178).

Skins however can conflict with it. That is, skins could overwrite the lvlback file too (just as any other program for that matter) and can even mangle up WLM in such a way that it doesn't load the lvlback file anymore.

If you installed a new Messenger, it is also possible that your previous lvlback has been removed/overwritten/deleted.

But all this has got nothing todo with the script; it still works as it should and Messenger still supports the lvlback file.

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Background Changer has got nothing todo with skinning or whatever.

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In the case of EvO, based on the screen shots Sunshine showed me, it appears that the contact items in the EvO skin do not have transparent backgrounds as they normally would. Because of this, parts of the background image are not visible.

I just created the lvlback file myself, and it worked!!
Steve, the problem you describe, is not occuring using the default skin.

vikke

That's why I said "In the case of EvO"

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Originally posted by vikke
I just created the lvlback file myself, and it worked!!

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Originally posted by Felu

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Originally posted by vikke
I just created the lvlback file myself, and it worked!!

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You mean to say that the lvback.gif created by background changer doesn't work?

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On the background changer script...what dimensions do the pictures have to be to fit the whole contact list background?

any size? you can resize the contact list.

hi i have windows live messenger and live plus it doesnt work with vista as i have a main pc that is xp and a laptop that is vista it works on my main pc but not on my laptop as it running vista please could you make one for vista as i like this on my main pc but cant get it to work with vista

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Originally posted by stella74
hi i have windows live messenger and live plus it doesnt work with vista as i have a main pc that is xp and a laptop that is vista it works on my main pc but not on my laptop as it running vista please could you make one for vista as i like this on my main pc but cant get it to work with vista

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Originally posted by stella74
hi i have windows live messenger and live plus it doesnt work with vista as i have a main pc that is xp and a laptop that is vista it works on my main pc but not on my laptop as it running vista please could you make one for vista as i like this on my main pc but cant get it to work with vista

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Download the new version, I have added a quick fix. I hope it works.
A permanent solution will be added later on when I have more time.

http://www.msgpluslive.net/scripts/view/10-Background-Changer/

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I'll try to make permanent fix soonish for the [...] button.

As for pasting the file path: that should work. But make sure you do not have a skin running, or at least a skin with a transparent background for the contact list.

And of course make sure the file you paste is actually a picture.

When the file is valid (and you don't have a skin which has its own background) and you press "ok" you're contact list should close and re-open automatically and you should see a background.

PS: you can also use the command '/changbg <filename>' to set the background.

the background changer was working perfectly fine for me, until half an hour ago I decided to change the background.

Then I changed back but the picture never changed!
I disabled and enabled the script. didn't work.
so I tried removing and reinstalling it. Still didn't work.

Now the ( ... ) button doesn't work. The file browser doesn't pop up anymore and the command " /change bg " doesn't work on me!

help!
thanks

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Originally posted by hollywoodnorth
the background changer was working perfectly fine for me, until half an hour ago I decided to change the background.

Then I changed back but the picture never changed!
I disabled and enabled the script. didn't work.
so I tried removing and reinstalling it. Still didn't work.

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Originally posted by hollywoodnorth
Now the ( ... ) button doesn't work. The file browser doesn't pop up anymore

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Originally posted by hollywoodnorth
and the command " /change bg " doesn't work on me!

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Originally posted by hollywoodnorth
the background changer was working perfectly fine for me, until half an hour ago I decided to change the background.

Then I changed back but the picture never changed!
I disabled and enabled the script. didn't work.
so I tried removing and reinstalling it. Still didn't work.

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The script is not responsible for the picture to be seen or not. You don't need this script to view the background. In fact, you even don't need this script to set your background. So enabling/disabling or even reinstalling the script hasn't got any influence on the background in any way.

The script simply provides a more convenient way to copy your choosen background to a file named lvback.gif, which is in your Messenger folder. That's all.

What the script should do is closing and re-opening your contact list. Did it do that?

And what do you mean by "but the picture never changed"? Do you still have the previous picture visible? Or isn't there a picture at all? Do you have skins installed?

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Originally posted by hollywoodnorth
Now the ( ... ) button doesn't work. The file browser doesn't pop up anymore

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If it did pop up before and now it doesn't, and you have not upgraded to Vista or something, it means something else is wrong with your computer as nothing significant has changed in the script regarding this.

What is the debug output of the script?
Plus! > Show script debugging > Background Changer

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Originally posted by hollywoodnorth
and the command " /change bg " doesn't work on me!

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The command is "/changebg", without the space.

Either you use it without a parameter to get the interface window: /changebg
Or either you directly set a file name as parameter: /changebg C:\mybackground.jpg

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As said above, you can always manually do what the script does: copy your choosen background to the Messenger installation folder and name the image "lvback.gif", then close and re-open your contact list.

Of course, make always sure the choosen image is a valid image. The script does not check upon that.

Note: the file must be named "lvback.gif", thus not "lvback.jpg" or something. The 'gif' extension is important.

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cool, ty

Currently skinning isn't active, so this script would be the perfect alternative to suggest to users; however the browse button isn't working.

Here's the debugging log:

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Error:  (code: -2147221230)
       File: Background.js. Line: 93.
Function OnWndBackgroundEvent_CtrlClicked returned an error. Code: -2147352318

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will have a look this evening

A new version has been submitted to the database. In the new version you can use the file browse dialog again on Vista/7 in all circumstances.

However, note that in order to let this script work you also need to have writing permissions for the Windows Live Messenger installation map. And on systems like Vista and Win7 this is often not the case by default. So if you get an "An error occured while setting the background", check your permissions for that folder!

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Originally posted by Chris4
or alternatively someone release a modified version on the forum which us helpers can link to.

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Originally posted by Chris4
or alternatively someone release a modified version on the forum which us helpers can link to.

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Please do not. If there are problems there are other ways for the 'helpers' to help the people: eg: tell them how to manually change the background. This is explained many times on the forums already (search for lvback.gif)

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2.4 Doesn't work for me.
[...] Button doesn't open file explorer.

1.0 Works fine.
Any reason?

Thank you!! 

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2.4 Doesn't work for me.
[...] Button doesn't open file explorer.

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Originally posted by Chris4
or alternatively someone release a modified version on the forum which us helpers can link to.

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Please do not. If there are problems there are other ways for the 'helpers' to help the people: eg: tell them how to manually change the background. This is explained many times on the forums already (search for lvback.gif)

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Fair enough. Was just a last alternative if you/Veggie didn't reply or couldn't do it.

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The last resort/alternative should be telling people how to change their background by manually copying their image over lvback.gif as explained in many posts on the forums. It is easy enough.

Thanks for your reply

I've to add, this bug was found using a PC machine with the following additions:

1. A just formatted Windows XP SP3 (Spanish)
2. No MS Office installed (yet).
3. Intel Pentium 4 (2.8GHz)
4. DirectX 9 (february /2010)
5. .NET Framework (versions from 2.0 SP1 to 3.5 SP1)

Thanks!

Those who had troubles before with the browsing dialog, can you redownload the new version (it is in the DB now), and tell us if the browser dialog works now.

*cross fingers*

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Originally posted by CookieRevised
note that in order to let this script work you also need to have writing permissions for the Windows Live Messenger installation map. And on systems like Vista and Win7 this is often not the case by default. So if you get an "An error occured while setting the background", check your permissions for that folder!

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2.5 (NEW) worked for me!
Thank you so much!!!

hello,
I like your script, but if someone else logs in he/she will see the same background.
please can you make it like different people get different backgrounds.
thanks

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hello,
I like your script, but if someone else logs in he/she will see the same background.
please can you make it like different people get different backgrounds.
thanks

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thanks for this script but i have a problem , or is a bug , this script keeps giving me this msg "An error occurred while setting the background" , i tried to manually change the background but i didn't find the file lvback.gif , if the problem is in the script show me how to fix it if it's from the files or something , show me how to restore it or to solve the problem generally , thanks again , it's really a good idea and precious time you gave us [size=2]

sorry i was a dump and i didn't read the previous posts i thought there only one page , it's ok any 2 years old  can understand , if he reads the first two posts of cookierevised and Veggie thanks guys
for who don't understand yet this script is simply a short cut  for a simple operation , you may do it manually but it'ss better with this script
1- copy
2- paste
3- rename