Shoutbox

thanks AnilEator, after extensively looking through my skininfo file i realises that in the different resgroups where i declare multival what i had been doing was

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<MultiVal Name="Bottom">Bottom</MultiVal>

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instead of

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<MultiVal Name="WordWheelLoc">Bottom</MultiVal>

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as my multival option defined in the options section earlier in the file defined the properties name as WordWheelLoc thats what the resgroup had to read to know to use that property so my skin now works again.

my newest problem is i have followed the tutorial in thread, obviously i have done something wrong but not entirely sure as to what yet, in relation to my word wheel element which can be found on line 3 of the 1001 definitions file it originally had the following

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<Element LayoutPos=Bottom Layout=BorderLayout() BorderThickness=rect(0,0,0,1) Padding=Rect(0,0,2,0) ID=Atom(ai641) Background=rgb(255,255,204)>

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the problem is that in the above tutorial the example given only shows how to set one action for if that condition is true, i tried to be smart and though, well these options have only got spaces as a seperater between them in there normal layout so if i put background text next to the layout position text with only a space as a seperater then i can make it use one colour as a background if wordwheel is at top and another if its at the bottom, clearly i was wrong.

below is the code i tried to use, if there are special seperaters to be used in plusskin tags when modifying multiple settings could you please advise what they are?

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<Element <*PlusSkin Conditions(WordWheelLoc = Bottom)*>LayoutPos=Bottom Background=rgb(255,255,204)</*PlusSkin*> <*PlusSkin Conditions(WordWheelLoc = Top)*>LayoutPos=Top Background=rgb(210,237,247)</*PlusSkin*>

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i appreciate your a busy person, however as you suggested a few days ago i have used this tutorial to solve most of my problem and only have this minor query on syntax to be answered, the result of my actions interestingly enough is that the background behind the sort your contact & add contacts buttons remains white and the bar is permanantly affixed to the bottom regardless of whether the user selects top or bottom in the skin options.

i also added the remove searchbar option to y skin it works great by the way, i really appreciate it, i have added a positive point to your reputation as you really do deserve credit for all your hard work on this tutorial.

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thanks anileator for helping me with this we must of spent like over an hour or so on messenger working on this, well mainly you working to be fair, anyways you know how in 8.5 we had to put the entire element tage in each pluskin tag for the word wheel i was forced to do the same with my searchbar option too just thought i should let you know.