How-to Think Skinning
I wrote this tutorial because I want to get rid of mostly questions which looks the same. This tutorial will cover how to think when skinning. To understand this, you will need a fully-working brain, and the ability to read. And make sure you understand pretty much everything.
Start off by extracting Messenger's resources from the MP!L Preferences window, you can extract them to any folder you want. Make sure you've ticked all the boxes except for the MP!L interfaces, these are only necessary if you want to skin MP!L, not WLM.
Let's start with a simple example, change the color of the "Advertisment" text in the contact list. What do we know? We know that the string that is getting showed in the contact list is "Advertisment". So let's open up the folder you extracted Messenger's resources to. Open up the Consolidated Windows folder, each folder inside contains the resources for each window. The contact list is the main window of WLM, so with a bit of thinking we open the folder called "923 (mainwnd)". Now open the file called "923 Style.txt", as it contains contents and properties for different elements defined in the "923 Definition.txt" file. Just do a search on "Advertisment", and there you go!
I come up with these lines:
code:
Element[ID=Atom(SSTitle)]
{
Fontface:"Tahoma";
FontSize:8pt;
Foreground:rgb(144,169,205);
Content:"Advertisment";
}
Above the "Content:"Advertisment";" you'll find this line: "Foreground:rgb(144,169,205);". Just edit the RGB values, to get it to change color. R stands for red, G for green, B for blue. If you're not familiar of the RGB-method, you can use this website to create your colors:
http://www.colorschemer.com/online.html. After you've found the correct color, replace the values like this "Foreground:rgb(<R-value>,<G-value>,<B-value>);".
Edit: I thought this quick tutorial could help. Enjoy.
I did not mean to be rude in any way, but mostly questions are of the same kind (not only questions from you, but from most people).
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