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[How-To] Change Contact List Background
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m4rt1n4, i have added you to my contact list on messenger, i am lylatwars19 [at] hotmail [dot] com, as stated above we cannot write one of those "xxxxxxx for dummies" books on skinning its too vast and some things are just so complex that you cant really dumb them down easily.

however if your having trouble doing something specific then we can of course try to guide you through it, now then our conversation on messenger you said you wanted to change the background image in your skin, now im answering on here as its easier to control the layout on here than on msn.

in your skininfo file you need it to look roughly like this.

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<SkinInfo xmlns="urn:msgplus:skins"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="urn:msgplus:skins PlusSkins.xsd">
    <Information>
        <Name>test Skin</Name>
        <Description> A skin that has themes for all of your favourite TV Shows that you would put on your Sky+ Planner.</Description>
        <Version>1.00</Version>
        <Compatibility>
            <MsgVersion Major="8" Minor="5"/>
        </Compatibility>
        <TraceFile>true</TraceFile>
    </Information>

        <ResGroup>
            <Restrictions>
                <MsgVersions>
                    <Version Major="8" Minor="5"/>
                </MsgVersions>
            </Restrictions>
            <Resources>           
                <Replace>
                    <Graphics>
                        <Pictures>
                            <Picture Id="20061">
                                <File>Atlantis\Atlantis.png</File>
                                <Metadata>
                                    <UMLeft>5</UMLeft>
                                    <UMTop>5</UMTop>
                                    <UMRight>5</UMRight>
                                    <UMBottom>5</UMBottom>
                                </Metadata>
                            </Picture>
                        </Pictures>
                    </Graphics>
                </Replace>
            </Resources>
        </ResGroup>
       
    </MessengerSkin>
</SkinInfo>


that code gives you a basic skin which all it test is change every background in messenger to the picture Atlantis.png, all you need to do is compare the above code to your own and see which bits you dont have yet and add them in, for your skin itll be the bits between <Replace> & </Replace> from the above example.

if you get stuck let me know and ill try to help.
01-09-2008 07:15 PM
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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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