Shoutbox

disclaimer: you'll be modifying msn. this violates your eula probably. do so at your own risk.

by popular demand:
How to make the infobar red.
1. get resource hacker (http://www.angusj.com/resourcehacker/)
2. open msgres.dll
3. find (ctrl+f or in the view menu) "infobar" (sans quotes)
4. find next (f3 or in the view menu) until you get to the stylesheets (in the 4005 folder)
5. you want to find things that look like

code:

---

infobar
{
Background:rcclr(1415);

---

and change them to

code:

---

infobar
{
Background:argb(255,255,00,00);

---

there are a bunch of such things
some might have "rcclr(20025)" or something as the colour
as long as it's a Background:rcclr within an infobar {, you'll want to make it argb(255,255,00,00)
6. close reshacker, save over msgres.dll


and that's my tutorial. obviously argb(255,255,00,00) could be any colour you like. i think it looks best in yellow (a.k.a. argb(255,255,255,00))

next up: changing the text colour in the infobar.