Shoutbox

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Originally posted by Nagamasa
Yes. Mess Patch and other patches' features are overwritten when skins are loaded, as the skins "call" those features back in automatically. I believe WAM has some of the same features as Mess Patch.

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Correct, 90% of the features that i used on MessPatch could also be done via the skin, and polygamy has been done by Messenger Plus! Live anyway

i love this skin, willz is a really great skin developer, i hope that one day ill be just as good as he is, i really consider him my role model. i used to use mess patch all the time before december 9th 2007 when skinning was released, quite early on during the skinning process i learned that keeping messpatch on while making skins meant i would force my messpatch settings onto my users as messpatch does alter the uifiles.

the only way around it is to extract your uifiles without messpatch installed and then make your skin so thats what i did, now in 365 i have added a lot of the things i loved from mess patch into my skins patching options however theres a few things i miss that i dont know how to do yet, i dont know how to make a signout button, well i know how tomake the button just dont have the image used by messpatch or the cmdid to make it work although blessedguy did it in his aurora live messenger so may ask him for the cmdid.

i also dont know how to connect to tabserve to use the custom tabs feature and i dont know anyone who has figured out how to do that yet and i cant simply ask mess patch team as im sure they wouldnt appreciate someone making a skin that directly competes with there software let alone help them to do it.

i hear a lot of you asking for 9.0 compatability in skins, i appreciate that you are like i used to be and have to have the latest version of messenger for the sake of having the latest version however until its released as a finished version it is doubtful that the majority of developers will support it in there skins, simple skins like beaver and steve that have a single set theme and can be easily updated to 9.0 with a second set of uifiles and a second resgroup might add it now but more complex skins like the ones willz makes and my 365 skin uses loads of resgroups and several different versions of any given uifile because of that reason making our skins 9.0 compatable is going to be no easy task so we are not going to want to do it now then find out later we have to completely redo it later for the final version, personally i will wait till 9.0 is final before makin 365 compatable with it i know it might not be a popular choice but advanced skins creators will often argue that are there skins not great enough for you to downgrade for.

anyway everyone hope you enjoy this wonderful skin which willz has made.

you wont be able to get all the features of messpatch as it does more than edit uifiles, eg hex edits to the executable

oh and it doesn't make it really an easier having a 'simple' skin, certainly not in detail anyway

maybe not easy but easier, i dont want all the features of messpatch, most of the features i like from messpatch i have been able to do already its just those 2 issues i mentioned that i dont know how to do fully yet but im sure ill get there eventually.

I just have one question, will this best Skin become updated thought i have read Williz would update it to 2.0.2. some weeks ago.

got a little problem with MDL1.4/1.5 beta



not a very big problem but the big gap between the MDL button and the other buttons is kind of annoying, not sure if it can be fixed but i'm just putting it out there for you

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Originally posted by Shiny Rabbit
got a little problem with MDL1.4/1.5 beta



not a very big problem but the big gap between the MDL button and the other buttons is kind of annoying, not sure if it can be fixed but i'm just putting it out there for you

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Thats the problem with other plugins, compatibility is not 100% guaranteed since their buttons are loaded by the program itself and not within UIFiles so there is nothing I can do about it. Stuffplug has issues too with the button that loads in the chat window. So yeah nothing I can do about it since the program itself decides on how things are loaded and displayed.

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Originally posted by Andylongi
I just have one question, will this best Skin become updated thought i have read Williz would update it to 2.0.2. some weeks ago.

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I know I said I would update it, but I said that I would when/if the German and Dutch translations were done. Since they weren't done I saw no reason to update just yet.

Got a little bug when loading webcam conversation. See attachment.

offtopic: lol post 333

How to recreate the theme on the right or http://img99.imageshack.us/my.php?image=wampb4.jpg

You mentioned previously the settings for the one on the left only.

Thanks!

Love the skins.