Shoutbox

We know it's not easy, this is the common mistake with skinning, sure simple icon replacement and other stuff is a blitz with plus's new engine but making up your own xml for the windows etc ain't exactly a walk in the proverbial park

I cut and move this...:

<Element class="FramelessWindowTitle" padding=rect(0,8,0,6) layoutpos=client layout=verticalflowlayout(0,0,0,0) ContentAlign=0x00000004|0x00000100>
<EmoticonText id=atom(WindowText) richeditstyle=RichText|HideSelection|DisableDrag|ReadOnly active=inactive/>
<Element id=atom(WindowSubText) layout=borderlayout()>
<Element layoutpos=left layout=borderlayout()>
<PSMElement id=atom(WindowPSM) Layout=BorderLayout()>
<Element id=atom(idPSM) Layout=VerticalFlowLayout(0,2,3,2)>
<HtmlView ShowEmoticons=true HandleLinksOnly=false yscrollable=false id=atom(idPSMView) Active=MouseAndKeyboard Accessible=True Tooltip=True AccState=64/>
</Element>
<Element id=atom(idCurrentSong) Layout=BorderLayout() Visible=False>
<Element id=atom(idSongIcon) Active=Inactive/>
<UrlElem id=atom(idSongText) Layout=VerticalFlowLayout(0,2,0,2) class="PSMUrl" CmdID=2339 ShowAmpersand=False>
<WLEditT id=atom(idSongInnerText) active=inactive/>
</UrlElem>
</Element>
</PSMElement>

...to under the TextInputBox, and save and restart, but it isnt work. Why? I have a problem with the moved "part"?? Or what?

Check the SkinTrace file if messenger refuses to open (that's assuming you've set <TraceFile>True</TraceFile> in your SkinInfo.xml) and it'll tell you what line of code is causing the problem, and which definition and style sheets were last loaded (it'll be in one of those).

Sometimes elements cannot be moved outside of other container elements and this may cause problems.

Skinning takes a LOT of trial and error.  It took me 2 days of trial and error to just reposition a picture to be aligned with the display pictures in the conversation window.

We can give you advice and help and stuff, but we're not gonna make you skin for you

Yes, i know your last sentence And Where is the Trace File? I dont know, because im not use this!

You need to insert:

code:

---

<TraceFile>True</TraceFile>

---

into your SkinInfo.xml in the Information section.

When a skin fails to load correctly, a file called "Skin Trace" will be generated inside your skin's directory

The edited file is loaded, so i dont know why not load my moving...

Last time I checked, the TraceFile was enabled by default.

If Messenger is in tray, but won't open up the Main-window, something got wrong while parsing the resources for the Main-window. Check the TraceFile for more information on the error.

The TraceFile:

08/01/07 20:56:34| **** The trace has started ****
08/01/07 20:56:34| Skin: iNNOV8SKIN! 1.1.0
08/01/07 20:56:34| Messenger version: 9.0.1407.1107 (en-us)
08/01/07 20:56:34| Messenger Plus! version: 4.50.312
08/01/07 20:56:34| SkinLoader: Couldn't find file "268.png"
08/01/07 20:56:34| SkinLoader: Couldn't find file "326.png"
08/01/07 20:56:34| SkinLoader: Couldn't find file "327.png"
08/01/07 20:56:34| SkinLoader: Couldn't find file "329.png"
08/01/07 20:56:34| SkinLoader: Couldn't find file "images/412.png"
08/01/07 20:56:34| SkinLoader: Couldn't find file "images/1487.png"
08/01/07 20:56:34| SkinLoader: Couldn't find file "414.png"
08/01/07 20:56:34| SkinLoader: Couldn't find file "443.png"
08/01/07 20:56:34| SkinLoader: Couldn't find file "444.png"
08/01/07 20:56:34| SkinLoader: Couldn't find file "597.png"
08/01/07 20:56:34| SkinLoader: Couldn't find file "images/652.png"
08/01/07 20:56:34| SkinLoader: Couldn't find file "659.png"
08/01/07 20:56:34| SkinLoader: Couldn't find file "840.png"
08/01/07 20:56:34| SkinLoader: Couldn't find file "860.png"
08/01/07 20:56:34| SkinLoader: Couldn't find file "861.png"
08/01/07 20:56:34| SkinLoader: Couldn't find file "862.png"
08/01/07 20:56:34| SkinLoader: Couldn't find file "863.png"
08/01/07 20:56:34| SkinLoader: Couldn't find file "961.png"
08/01/07 20:56:34| SkinLoader: Couldn't find file "963.png"
08/01/07 20:56:34| SkinLoader: Couldn't find file "965.png"
08/01/07 20:56:34| SkinLoader: Couldn't find file "1014.png"
08/01/07 20:56:34| SkinLoader: Couldn't find file "images/1076.gif"
08/01/07 20:56:34| SkinLoader: Couldn't find file "1131.png"
08/01/07 20:56:34| SkinLoader: Couldn't find file "1132.png"
08/01/07 20:56:34| SkinLoader: Couldn't find file "Display Picture/1531.png"
08/01/07 20:56:34| SkinLoader: Couldn't find file "images/20853.png"
08/01/07 20:56:34| SkinLoader: Couldn't find file "images/3172.png"
08/01/07 20:56:34| SkinLoader: Couldn't find file "images/20853.png"
08/01/07 20:56:34| SkinLoader: Couldn't find file "20202.png"
08/01/07 20:58:27| **** The trace has ended ****

I think it's pretty self-explanatory.
The files you've entered in your SkinInfo.xml doesn't exist in your skin-folder.

it seems that you've referenced things in your SkinInfo file that you haven't included in the skin directory.

all of those images (268.png, etc) need to be included in the skin's directory, or if they are in subfolders then they need to be referenced correctly in your SkinInfo file.