When I had started my skin a month or so ago, I didn't even think about the problems I would face with a patched messenger. I read a couple weeks ago NOT to skin on a patched messenger cause it wouldn't work for others or something unless they had the same patch settings as you.

Anyways, I decided to uninstall WLM and then reinstall a clean version with ONLY mp!l as the only addon. I moved my skin folder back into skins, and enabled my skin. It said it was applied, but there were no changes at all to how my skin looked.

So is there an easy way to get my skin I made on a patched messenger to work on a fresh install?

Get a program such as AptDiff (program that compares 2 files together and shows the differences).

Compare your skins strings and definition files with UNEDITED ones.

Check what strings you changed, and find out what they should be....etc.

That would be my only idea besides starting fresh

The fact that your skin is shown does not mean something. It would be shown just because there is a SkinInfo with its name in the skins directory. You can check if there is a Skin trace so that you find out what mistakes you have made. If there is no Skin trace then I suggest you do what SonicSam told you.

I don't understand the problem, if the skin is appearing exactly how you want it to appear then there is nothing wrong regardless of what others have said regarding patches.

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Originally posted by Volv
I don't understand the problem, if the skin is appearing exactly how you want it to appear then there is nothing wrong regardless of what others have said regarding patches.

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Originally posted by Vilkku

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Originally posted by Volv
I don't understand the problem, if the skin is appearing exactly how you want it to appear then there is nothing wrong regardless of what others have said regarding patches.

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What if he wants to release it?

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yeah, but the point is that if he releases a skin with files from a patched messenger (A-Patch, MessPatch, etc) then it won't show up correctly for anyone who doesn't have that patch installed.

yes they will... the patching programs edit the resources that you are editing... well they do it before you... so if you dont have the patch installed it will be exactly the same because you extract the resources that have been patched...
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i hope i made sense there

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Originally posted by djdannyp
yeah, but the point is that if he releases a skin with files from a patched messenger (A-Patch, MessPatch, etc) then it won't show up correctly for anyone who doesn't have that patch installed.

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If the skin works properly on Windows Live Messenger 8.5 then you are free to release it.

Woah, tons of replies, I will try and hit them all:

@SonicSam: That sounds like a good idea. I will try and do this, thank you .

@Basilis: Didn't even think of the trace file >.<! I'll give that a look .

@Volv: It does look how I want it to look. I have however, patched away the adverts, and do want to release it. Thats really the only reason I am going through the trouble of making it again WITH the adverts.

@djdannyp: I have tried my skin on the SAME messenger version on the same operating system without patches (mess patch in this case) and it didn't work, like you said.

@NanaFreak: That would make sense. I am extracting resources from edited resources (no different than a skin I thought?) but it doesn't seem to work for some reason :\.

@Basilis: I have gotten rid of the ads, but otherwise, yeah I know .


So thank you all for your tips, and I will try to compare my files with brand new ones ^_^.

You still do not need to start again from scratch just because the ads have been patched away, chances are it will just take a very minor change to your current file to bring them back.

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You still do not need to start again from scratch just because the ads have been patched away, chances are it will just take a very minor change to your current file to bring them back.

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If the skin works properly on Windows Live Messenger 8.5 then you are free to release it.

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Originally posted by Keikonium
That would make sense. I am extracting resources from edited resources (no different than a skin I thought?) but it doesn't seem to work for some reason :\.

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