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Originally posted by KNOTTYONE
Before I installed the newest version of PLUS , iIhad this exact skin enabled, but the names in my contact list were purple. I had to put a code in front of thier names to do this. But when I attempted to do this all i saw was the code in front of their names, no color. When i rebooted, it looked as it does now.
If you had to put a code in front of their '
nicknames' then it had nothing todo with the skin.... You can do this without any skin because that is a basic feature of Messenger Plus!.
PS: note the word '
nicknames', another term, not to be confused with '
contact names'. Because you can not change the name of the contacts! You can however choose a nickname for your contacts which will be shown instead of the contact name. Choosing a nickname for your contacts is a feature of Windows Live Messenger.
(Right click a contact and choose 'Add a nickname')
However, the color codes are a feature of Messenger Plus!. If you put color codes around the nicknames then Messenger Plus! will colorize the nickname.
But, this feature must be enabled in Messenger Plus!....
If it is disabled, you will see the color codes. If it is enabled you will see the names colorized according to the used codes.
But
according to your screenshots you do not have any nicknames set for the contacts. So, nothing will be colored. Aka, you will see everything in black (the default foreground color), unless the contact himself has used color codes in their name.
Also note that a skin can override these colors. You would then instead simply see the color used by the skin, and you wont see the color codes you have set in the nicknames (or which the contact have set in their name).
So:
1) check if the following option is enabled:
Plus! > Options & Preferences > Customize! > General > Use formatting attributes to color contact names in Messenger Windows.
2) Make sure you have added
nicknames for every contact in your contact list.
(right click on the contact in the contact list and choose 'Add nickname')
3) Make sure you have added the proper color tags around every nickname for every contact in your contact list. eg:
[c=6]nickname[/c]
4) Make sure you
don't use a skin which alters the default foreground color of names in the contact list.
(Plus! > Options & Preferences > Customize! > Skins)
Although I'm not 100% sure if a skin can überhaupt have any influence on this though
Because, internally, the colorization of names is probably done after the skin settings have been applied
EDIT:
5) And although it isn't the cause of all of this, don't forget to remove the skin '
Customize Windows Live Messenger' because that isn't compatible with the Windows Live Messenger version you're using.
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