Shoutbox

Sure you can, by ResHacking msnmsgr.exe! That's some sort of skinning.

When you say

quote:

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Originally posted by the topic title
...in main msn window

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I guess you're talking about the list where your contacts are in (note me if not). Here comes a small tutorial:

1. Download and open Resource Hacker.
   
2. Make sure MSN Messenger is completly closed, this means there's no MSN icon in the system tray anymore.
   
3. In the menu, go to File > Open and browse to C:\Program Files\MSN Messenger\msnmsgr.exe.
   
4. You'll now see a bunch of folders in the left panel. Dubble-click UIFILE and then 936.
   
5. There, you can choose what to change. If you want to edit...
   • ...the color of the contact's name: look at line 138 for
     

     code:

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     emoticontext[id=atom(buddyname)]
     {
     layoutpos:left;
     fontweight:normal;
     contentalign:bottomleft|endellipsis;
     padding:rect(0,0,0,0);
     richeditstyle:PlainText|HideSelection|DisableDrag|ReadOnly;
     }

     ---

     and add the following line to it:
     

     code:

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     emoticontext[id=atom(buddyname)]
     {
     layoutpos:left;
     fontweight:normal;
     contentalign:bottomleft|endellipsis;
     padding:rect(0,0,0,0);
     richeditstyle:PlainText|HideSelection|DisableDrag|ReadOnly;
     foreground:rgb(r,g,b);
     }

     ---

     where r is the red amount, g is the green amount and b is the amount of blue.
     
     
   • ...the color of the statusses: look at line 146 and change:
     

     code:

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     element[id=atom(buddystatus)]
     {
     layoutpos:left;
     fontweight:normal;
     foreground:graytext;
     contentalign:middleleft|endellipsis;
     padding:rect(0,0,0,0);
     }
     element[id=atom(buddystatus)][dropfocus]
     {
     foreground:rgb(255,128,0);
     }

     ---

     to:
     

     code:

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     element[id=atom(buddystatus)]
     {
     layoutpos:left;
     fontweight:normal;
     foreground:rgb(r,g,b);
     contentalign:middleleft|endellipsis;
     padding:rect(0,0,0,0);
     }
     element[id=atom(buddystatus)][dropfocus]
     {
     foreground:rgb(r,g,b);
     }

     ---

     again with r, g, b representing their respective color amounts.
     
     
   • ...the color of the personal messages: look at line 168 and change:
     

     code:

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     emoticontext[id=atom(idPSMText)]
     {
     layoutpos:left;
     fontweight:normal;
     fontstyle:rcint(2007);
     foreground:windowtext;
     contentalign:bottomleft|endellipsis;
     padding:rect(1,0,2,0);
     richeditstyle:PlainText|HideSelection|DisableDrag|ReadOnly;
     }
     emoticontext[id=atom(idPSMText)][selected]
     {
     foreground:ifhc(highlighttext,black);
     }
     emoticontext[id=atom(idPSMText)][dropfocus]
     {
     foreground:rgb(255,128,0);
     }

     ---

     to:
     

     code:

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     emoticontext[id=atom(idPSMText)]
     {
     layoutpos:left;
     fontweight:normal;
     fontstyle:rcint(2007);
     foreground:rgb(r,g,b);
     contentalign:bottomleft|endellipsis;
     padding:rect(1,0,2,0);
     richeditstyle:PlainText|HideSelection|DisableDrag|ReadOnly;
     }
     emoticontext[id=atom(idPSMText)][selected]
     {
     foreground:rgb(r,g,b);
     }
     emoticontext[id=atom(idPSMText)][dropfocus]
     {
     foreground:rgb(r,g,b);
     }

     ---

     with the same thing for r, g and b.
6. When you're finished editting, press Compile Script and then go File > Save to save your changes. Now run MSN Messenger and see what happened!

I hope that helped.