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Originally posted by Sunshine
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Originally posted by Ezra
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Originally posted by saralk
you are not using messenger 7, the coloured nicknames are only available in messenger 7 and above.
In the contact list, but it should work in the chat window right?
Uhmm no, you can't colour contacts names with MSN 6.2. Only your own.
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Originally posted by Ezra
It is strange that if others set a color in the names you see it, but with a custom color, you can't
Yes you can though
You can colour your custom names in conversations already (not in the contactlist though). You don't need MSN Messenger 7 beta, nor the new Messenegr Plus! beta for this. It works fine in MSN Messenger 6.2 and using Messenger Plus! 3.25.106 (latest non-beta version)...
Set a custom name like you otherwise do. (right click on a contact choose Messenger Plus! extra's > custom name)
To use color in the custom name you need to add the special characters which are printed when you do CTRL+K inside a conversation for example.
In other words,
the color tags like (!FC) don't work in custom names.
You need the actual character code which is represented by (!FC).
So, to get this right, open a conversation, press CTRL+K and select the color of your choice, then copy/paste the character and the colornumber to that box where you define the custom names.
You might as well use a conversation screen to set up the correct colors/formats for your custom name and copy/paste the whole line in to the custom name box when you're done.
Also, keep in mind that colors set by your contacts in their names will overwrite the ones that you set in the custom contact name for those contacts when you use the (!N) tag. (which is only logical of course)
note: not only colors are possible in this way, but also the other IRC-style formats.
of course, for all this to work, you need custom names enabled...
So,
example:....
to set female contacts to red and male contacts to blue enter the following lines into the custom name box:
for a female's custom contact name:
4female: (!N)
for a male's custom contact name:
12male: (!N)
(ps: note that there isn't actually a space between that "boxed" character and the colornumber, this space you see in the example is because of the html page-rendering.)
If you contact has his name set to:
"and the
moon is the only
light we see"
And you set his custom name to:
12male: (!N)
You will see this in a conversation window:
male: "and the moon is the only
light we see" says:
You'll notice that the colors used by your contact will 'overwrite' the blue color that you've set. This is normal, this works just the same like if you color text in conversations, etc...
So, you see that the colors work in the way you'd expect. "and the" is also colored because you didn't end the coloring with a "resetcode" (would be colorcode 0 in normal cases) like Plus! automatically does when you set your nickname with the /nick command.
To fix this ugly thing, set the custom name to:
12male: 0(!N)
and you'll get:
male: "and the
moon is the only
light we see" says:
You can play with this further to, for example, color the "says" for that particular contact. "says" comes after the full contactname, so after (!N). And you already know that colorcodes need to be 'reset', otherwise they go on for everything that follows (on the same line). That means you can do this:
12male: 0(!N)4
and you will get this:
male: "and the
moon is the only
light we see"
says:
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