Shoutbox

For the lack of a better name, I am here to show you a work in progress of my skin MesOrby. Basically, it will be similar to the current WLM, but it will have a spanning background (which will be user definable hopefully in the future) across all the main windows of WLM and the toasts. And all the elements within those windows will be enclosed inside transparent boxes.

So here is a preview of what I have been up to for the past month:


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Current Features:
- Ability to show/hide all the default WLM buttons in the dashboard
- Button made to open SKIN preferences
- Buttons from Mess Patch in skin by default (prefs, sign out, etc)
- Move the contact search bar to the bottom
- Hide the search bar completely
- Hide/show top black header (where the window buttons are)
- Changing WLM color changes the background image

Features currently in the works:
- Hide/show Plus! buttons
- Move entire top header to the bottom
- More backgrounds that colorize well
- Chat window options (gotta think of some)

Possible future features:
- Use different default emoticons
- Color themes for the transparent boxes (so they don't have to be white)
- User selectable background
- WLM 9.0 compatibility (probably not until final)

To-do list:
- Toasts
- Chat window layout (its almost done, but looks a bit sloppy)
- Change DP in main contact list window
- Minor fixes/tweaks/replacements
- Think of a better name
- Status icon replacements
- Window button replacement
- New images thru out messenger

Currently I have halted development since I started making the skin on a patched WLM, and it's gonna be a pain in the ass to transfer my changes over to a fresh unpatched messenger. So until I do that, I wont have an ETA on a release, but I just wanted to give everyone a preview of what will be available sometime next year . I don't think I left anything out...

Thoughts?

WOOOOOOOOOOOOW!!!! Very Nice Skin! How can u make a box for a user status; name; psm and a contact list icons? Very Nice Skin again! Con. Grat!

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Originally posted by TRash19
WOOOOOOOOOOOOW!!!! Very Nice Skin! How can u make a box for a user status; name; psm and a contact list icons? Very Nice Skin again! Con. Grat!

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Thank you TRash . The contact list was easy. The default white background that you see with a fresh WLM, all I did was make that transparent. There you have your box.

The header (PSM, name etc) was a bit more complicated. I replaced the default blue header with a 1x1 pixel 100% transparent png. Then I added a new element to 'wrap' the header in a transparent box. I added a border, added some padding, and moved the icons into the header. Viola, I had a box up there too .

I hope that made sense .

And How can u move a contact search bar to the bottom? I find a color Id, how i change it, but i dont find.

This looks very nice, can't wait for a release!

Now that is a damn good skin . Hopefully you'll consider making it compatible with 9.0.

Edit: Looked closer at the background, thought I'd note that I currently have that set as my desktop background .

Looks nice

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Originally posted by aNILEator
Looks nice

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Indeed, looks very nice, keep up the good work, and hope for 9.0 support

Please stop begging people for 9.0 support, it's barely even beta ready standard and the internal XML is very different, a change that affects layout such as this is going to be hard to do for 9.0

Looks really good, looking forward to this one.
And I see rise against..