Shoutbox

It is sure that it can be transparent. Blessedguy has it on his Aurora live Messenger skin

check how he did is basilis, you see it could be a deception, lets say he cuts out a bit of his background thats supposed to cross the point where word wheel is normally located, then then sets background to use that image as opposed to a rgb value and viola you fake a transparency.

i am not saying thats how he did it but its a possible work around that might have been used.

argb = alpha, rgb

If you set the alpha to 0 you get complete transparency, if you set it to the highest(of which i can't remember the exact number) it will be completely opaque(not transparent)

therefore you need:

code:

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Background:argb(0,255,255,255);

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EDIT: What you did was change one of the colour values, which of course would of changed the colour, not the alpha.

Thanks for that, but do you know exactly which element I have to edit in order t o have a transparent background in my contact list?

ok basilis where your going wrong is your using 1001 the actual contact list is in 1004 and 1009 style files for making that transparent, based on your earlier post i thought you were attempting word wheel transparency.

and heres the block your looking for

quote:

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Element[id=atom(listitem)] // this element has been added in
{
    Background:argb(0,0,0,0); // added in
    Foreground:rgb(255,255,255); // 0,0,0
}

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lines 29 -33 of your 1004 and 1009 style files. enjoy.

Thanks for trying to help but that didn't work either. This transparent background drives me crazy.

It's actually one of the easiest things in Skinning. It's like anything else. It's only about adding another style-attribute.

In the 1001 and 1004 definition change this line:

code:

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<BuddyList id=atom(abView) Layout=FillLayout() CmdGroup=guid("{16E32D35-5350-4805-B7F0-5E782510AF6F}")/>

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To:

code:

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<BuddyList id=atom(abView) Layout=FillLayout() CmdGroup=guid("{16E32D35-5350-4805-B7F0-5E782510AF6F}") background=argb(0, 0, 0, 0)/>

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Fortunately I found it. Y ou have to make the background that way
argb(0,255,255,255) below the abLayout in the 1001style .I have been told that but I realized that the picture I was using was just a color so the change was not big. I tried to put a theme image and it worked. Thank you all for your help. Finally, this headache got out of my head.

I'm glad you sorted it out.

800th post!

Wouldn't simply putting/creating a "lvback.gif" file in WLM's folder be much simpler?