Well boys and girls. I come to you today bearing a brand new skin called fuse. Fuse is something I have been working on and off for the past few months. Messenger 9's layout is difficult to manipulate when it comes to taking down the extra space Microsoft added in.

With every skin I made, I learnt a bit more on how to get around some of these sizing restrictions to condense the space down. So after a lot of coding I was able to construct a skin which significantly brings down the minimum window size you can have when using Messenger.

Fuse features a highly compressed chat window and contact list design. It took a lot of experimentation and a mixture of code from different skins to be able to come to the final product (kinda how it got it's name, it's a fusion of all the layout compression I have done.)

Fuse features the standard options you guys have been used to in my skins recently and also uses some of the extra registry entries you see in Phunk'n as a little bonus. But yeah I recommend people check out this skin because it really does grow on you (like how it colorizes and if you combine it with the right scene it looks really nice).

Now for some screenshots:





Well that's all for now. Stay tuned because there is still more to come this month in terms of skins.

Willz.

Wow that is pretty compressed, i will probably end up using that because i like a nice little window and it to be as compressed as possible, does it allow making larger though?

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Originally posted by Eddie
Wow that is pretty compressed, i will probably end up using that because i like a nice little window and it to be as compressed as possible, does it allow making larger though?

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I know I say this a lot, but I love it. That will be my new skin when I get home

Where's the download link?
Man, if this and Ev0 where to be combined, it'd be cooler.

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Originally posted by James Potter
Where's the download link?

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Where's the download link?

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The pictures?

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Willz surprises us with yet another amazing skin... Installed and using!

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Originally posted by James Potter
Btw, the text box (where you write), is buggy when using "Raavi" as font and 14pt as font size. =\ Buggy in the sense that text is not displayed, but emoticons are. I will need to click on the "Choose font" button and click "OK" every time to make the text appear.

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Just a note. For those that are experiencing an issue where your typing font randomly gets changed to white I have updated the skin to fix this minor issue. It happens pretty randomly so yeah.

There is no build change since it was a one line kinda thing. Just redownload the the skin and it should be fine.

Feels pretty nice and clean... goint to try it

I like it. It's so clean and simple...just my style

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Originally posted by Nagamasa
I like it. It's so clean and simple...just my style

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I guess the only complaint I have is that it's dark and it makes some people's names hard to read, I would be all over a lighter version of this

I couldn't guess how handy this skin would be. It has made my Messenger really small.

P.S. The name of the skin in the database is fuse and not Fuse. It is a mistake?

There doesn't seem to have any way to access the menu bar if you hide the search bar.

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Originally posted by Rorix
There doesn't seem to have any way to access the menu bar if you hide the search bar.

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Just installed the skin. Its hot! Finally a simplistic skin that looks clean and sweet. As usual, a Willz release is 150% complete
Great job. Keep making skins like this and I'll love you long time
(I'm more of a fan of this type of skins than the super complex and flashy ones )
<3 Willz

PS: I want to have you babies ;o

^ Everything JA just said (espeically the babies), this skin is amazing.

Willz, how to resize the lower (your) DP in the conversation window? Looks odd when it's huge compared to your contact's DP...

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Willz, how to resize the lower (your) DP in the conversation window? Looks odd when it's huge compared to your contact's DP...

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Willz, how to resize the lower (your) DP in the conversation window? Looks odd when it's huge compared to your contact's DP...

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You can only do it to a certain point using the reg entry. Its because the region its in is in the old scene area. This means the DP size can't go over the height of the constrainer which holds the scene in place.

If you don't like the little contacts DP then switch back to the original DP layout.

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Willz, how to resize the lower (your) DP in the conversation window? Looks odd when it's huge compared to your contact's DP...

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You can only do it to a certain point using the reg entry. Its because the region its in is in the old scene area. This means the DP size can't go over the height of the constrainer which holds the scene in place.

If you don't like the little contacts DP then switch back to the original DP layout.

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I like the contacts' DP, I just hate mine, it's too huge compared to theirs'. So how to resize mine?

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I've recently been seeing a problem with fuse and tabbed chats.  When I have tabbed chats on, and move the conversation window, there will have a window remaining showing an image of the inactive chats. It's bit hard to describe so I'll attach some images.

2 chats, tabbed.


If I drag the window up and to the left, the 2nd chat is visible underneath.  However, it can't be clicked, the clicks will go through as if it weren't there.

this has happened to me again recently... i think it was when i updated to 1.0.2 (from 1.0.0)

(!VER) :
Windows 7 Ultimate x64 (6.1.7600)
Windows Live Messenger 14.0.0726
Messenger Plus! Live 4.83.0.372
Skin: fuse 1.0.2

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Originally posted by Rorix
I've recently been seeing a problem with fuse and tabbed chats.  When I have tabbed chats on, and move the conversation window, there will have a window remaining showing an image of the inactive chats. It's bit hard to describe so I'll attach some images.

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Has nothing to do with Fuse I think... is an issue of MP!L or WLM itself with compatibility mode...

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I've recently been seeing a problem with fuse and tabbed chats.  When I have tabbed chats on, and move the conversation window, there will have a window remaining showing an image of the inactive chats. It's bit hard to describe so I'll attach some images.

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I found this too. Happens when you run WLM in compatibility mode for vista while on Win7

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ummm... im not using messenger in compatibility mode... and it still happened to me... so i dont think its strictly that...

How do I set the default formatting window size? It always comes up big.

This Skin Is Awesome ... But Just one thing made me sad ...

when you open mesenger ... the box where u have to put ur username n password .... the size of the dp is soo small .... it should be big ... tht would be awesome

when the other contact has a dynamic dp ... the frame is positioned higher than the picture .. please fix it