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[How-To] Change Contact List Background
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O.P. [How-To] Change Contact List Background
Your skin would be pretty dull if your contact list had white background, so I'm going to show you how to change the background to a background-image.

Start off by extracting Messenger's resources. If you already have, don't bother doing this again.
We need to edit a definition/style file in order to apply new styles, as the background-image isn't supported by default. So copy the 1001-definition  into your skins folder (msgres_4004_1001.txt) from your extraction folder.

Open it up in a text editor of choice, and do a search for "<BuddyList" you will hopefully come up with this line:
code:
<BuddyList id=atom(abView) Layout=FillLayout() CmdGroup=guid("{16E32D35-5350-4805-B7F0-5E782510AF6F}")/>

Then add the background property to the buddy list-tag like this. rcbkd tells Messenger to load the background from resources with the ID 59000.
code:
<BuddyList id=atom(abView) Layout=FillLayout() CmdGroup=guid("{16E32D35-5350-4805-B7F0-5E782510AF6F}") background=rcbkd(59000)/>
59000 is our ID for the background image we're going to add as a resource (remember this has to be over 59000). So now open your SkinInfo file in text editor of choice, and add something like this under the <Resource>-tab:
code:
                <New>
                    <Pictures>
                        <Picture Id="59000">
                            <File>background.png</File>
                            <Metadata>
                                <UMLeft>1</UMLeft>
                                <UMRight>1</UMRight>
                                <UMTop>1</UMTop>
                                <UMBottom>1</UMBottom>
<Colorize>true</Colorize>
                            </Metadata>
                        </Picture>
                    </Pictures>
                </New>

Edit: You will also need to replace 1001-definition with your 1001 file. Example:
code:
<Replace><Windows><Definitions><Definition Id="10001"><File>1001.txt</file></Definition></Definitions></Windows></Replace>

There you go. Thanks for reading.

This post was edited on 12-09-2007 at 08:28 PM by vikke.
12-09-2007 07:48 AM
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[How-To] Change Contact List Background - by vikke on 12-09-2007 at 07:48 AM
RE: [How-To] Change Contact List Background - by stuartbennett on 12-09-2007 at 06:21 PM
RE: [How-To] Change Contact List Background - by djdannyp on 12-09-2007 at 06:49 PM
RE: [How-To] Change Contact List Background - by stuartbennett on 12-09-2007 at 08:09 PM
RE: [How-To] Change Contact List Background - by Nagamasa on 12-10-2007 at 01:03 AM
RE: RE: [How-To] Change Contact List Background - by m4rt1n4 on 01-08-2008 at 11:14 PM
RE: [How-To] Change Contact List Background - by davidpolitis on 12-10-2007 at 01:39 AM
RE: [How-To] Change Contact List Background - by Sunshine on 12-11-2007 at 01:42 PM
RE: RE: [How-To] Change Contact List Background - by djdannyp on 12-11-2007 at 02:31 PM
RE: [How-To] Change Contact List Background - by Sunshine on 12-11-2007 at 03:26 PM
RE: [How-To] Change Contact List Background - by djdannyp on 12-11-2007 at 04:06 PM
RE: [How-To] Change Contact List Background - by Sunshine on 12-11-2007 at 04:51 PM
RE: [How-To] Change Contact List Background - by aNILEator on 12-11-2007 at 05:21 PM
RE: [How-To] Change Contact List Background - by djdannyp on 12-11-2007 at 05:24 PM
RE: [How-To] Change Contact List Background - by Sunshine on 12-11-2007 at 05:26 PM
RE: [How-To] Change Contact List Background - by duck! on 12-11-2007 at 09:45 PM
RE: RE: [How-To] Change Contact List Background - by davidpolitis on 12-12-2007 at 01:43 AM
RE: [How-To] Change Contact List Background - by Keikonium on 12-12-2007 at 06:41 AM
RE: [How-To] Change Contact List Background - by duck! on 12-12-2007 at 07:44 AM
RE: RE: [How-To] Change Contact List Background - by davidpolitis on 12-12-2007 at 07:58 AM
RE: [How-To] Change Contact List Background - by m4rt1n4 on 01-09-2008 at 02:02 AM
RE: [How-To] Change Contact List Background - by stuartbennett on 01-09-2008 at 05:53 AM
RE: [How-To] Change Contact List Background - by m4rt1n4 on 01-09-2008 at 01:02 PM
RE: RE: [How-To] Change Contact List Background - by djdannyp on 01-09-2008 at 01:34 PM
RE: [How-To] Change Contact List Background - by m4rt1n4 on 01-09-2008 at 03:58 PM
RE: [How-To] Change Contact List Background - by freak544 on 01-09-2008 at 04:16 PM
RE: [How-To] Change Contact List Background - by vikke on 01-09-2008 at 05:17 PM
RE: [How-To] Change Contact List Background - by stuartbennett on 01-09-2008 at 07:15 PM
RE: [How-To] Change Contact List Background - by Basilis on 01-31-2008 at 05:16 PM
RE: [How-To] Change Contact List Background - by Spunky on 01-31-2008 at 05:20 PM
RE: [How-To] Change Contact List Background - by Basilis on 01-31-2008 at 05:25 PM
RE: [How-To] Change Contact List Background - by stuartbennett on 01-31-2008 at 06:43 PM
RE: [How-To] Change Contact List Background - by vaccination on 01-31-2008 at 06:59 PM
RE: [How-To] Change Contact List Background - by Basilis on 01-31-2008 at 08:10 PM
RE: [How-To] Change Contact List Background - by stuartbennett on 02-01-2008 at 06:04 AM
RE: [How-To] Change Contact List Background - by Basilis on 02-01-2008 at 02:55 PM
RE: [How-To] Change Contact List Background - by vikke on 02-01-2008 at 02:58 PM
RE: [How-To] Change Contact List Background - by Basilis on 02-01-2008 at 03:20 PM
RE: [How-To] Change Contact List Background - by vikke on 02-01-2008 at 03:40 PM
RE: [How-To] Change Contact List Background - by dexluther on 02-05-2008 at 03:05 AM
RE: [How-To] Change Contact List Background - by vikke on 02-05-2008 at 02:37 PM
RE: [How-To] Change Contact List Background - by Soardra on 03-02-2008 at 04:49 AM
RE: [How-To] Change Contact List Background - by Basilis on 03-02-2008 at 12:14 PM
RE: [How-To] Change Contact List Background - by Soardra on 03-02-2008 at 05:05 PM
RE: [How-To] Change Contact List Background - by Basilis on 03-02-2008 at 05:15 PM
RE: [How-To] Change Contact List Background - by Soardra on 03-02-2008 at 05:20 PM
RE: [How-To] Change Contact List Background - by blessedguy on 03-09-2008 at 03:30 PM
RE: [How-To] Change Contact List Background - by stuartbennett on 03-09-2008 at 06:21 PM
RE: [How-To] Change Contact List Background - by blessedguy on 03-09-2008 at 07:36 PM
RE: [How-To] Change Contact List Background - by ResourcE on 04-01-2008 at 05:50 PM
RE: [How-To] Change Contact List Background - by Nagamasa on 04-01-2008 at 08:17 PM
RE: RE: [How-To] Change Contact List Background - by ResourcE on 04-01-2008 at 08:34 PM


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