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O.P. Huh?  [Help] Changing the color of nickname & PSM
I have a dark graphic at the head of the conversation window.  The nickname and PSM text are dark, as well.  This makes them hard to read.  I want to make the text for these items brighter.

I've tried editing the 920 style file to no avail.  I'm pretty much shooting in the dark.  I'm not sure what to edit and how.  I figure it's something in rosterbuddyname and idPSMtext.

Any help would be appreciated!
12-30-2007 12:50 AM
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RE: [Help] Changing the color of nickname & PSM
Hi fr33k!

You can change the PSM color of conversation window with a small editing:

1. Open the 920.style.txt
2. Search this element in the style:

}
Element[id=atom(idPSM)]
{
LayoutPos:Left;
}


3. You add this, after LayoutPos:Left; element :

Foreground:rgb(*HERE YOUR COLOR CODE! such as: 255,0,0<- full red*);

Like this:

}
Element[id=atom(idPSM)]
{
LayoutPos:Left;
Foreground:rgb(255,0,0);
}


Good Luck ;)

*EDIT: When you wanna change a PSM background in the ConvWindow, open again the 920.style.txt, find again the 2. step and add this: Background:rgb(*your code*); :)

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O.P. RE: [Help] Changing the color of nickname & PSM
Thanks for the quick response!

However...I couldn't get it to work.  Here's what the Style section of my SkinInfo.xml file looks like...

quote:
<Styles>
                            <Style Id="920">
                                <File>UIFiles/Styles/920.txt</File>
                            </Style>
                        </Styles>

Here's what the edited line in 920.txt looks like

quote:
Element[id=atom(idPSM)]
{
    LayoutPos:Left;
    Foreground:rgb(255,0,0);
}

I'm not getting a trace file and the PSM text isn't red.  Any idea what I might be doing wrong?
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RE: [Help] Changing the color of nickname & PSM
You write to the SkinInfo.xml like this:

<Styles>

<Style Id="920"><File>UIFiles/Styles/920.txt</File></Style>

</Styles>


You write to the 920.txt like this:

Element[id=atom(idPSM)]
{
LayoutPos:Left;
Foreground:rgb(255,0,0);
}


You don't wanna use the full red words, you use your color codes. :P


What are you use?
WLM 8.0/8.1/8.5 or 9?
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O.P. RE: [Help] Changing the color of nickname & PSM
I figured red would be easy to spot if I got the text coloring right. :P

I tried slapping a white background behind the red text...still nothing.  It's a transparent background and the same color text.

I swapped the SkinInfo.xml syntax to match your posted suggestion.  I copy & pasted your suggested code block into 920.txt.

Seems like I'm probably missing something simple...

Btw, I'm using WLM 8.5

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RE: [Help] Changing the color of nickname & PSM
Can you send to me your skin? Maybe i can find the problem. And I will repair it. When its ok, I send back to you :) If is not problem for you :P (put a folder to a zip :) )
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O.P. RE: [Help] Changing the color of nickname & PSM
Attached is a rough draft :P

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RE: [Help] Changing the color of nickname & PSM
Huhhh...So, I cant see that, because i use a wlm 9 :$ But, maybe the 8.5 is cant use the rgb code, so you write the background color like this:

Element[id=atom(idPSM)]
{
LayoutPos:Left;
Foreground:argb(255,0,0,0);
}


Maybe this is the good version for 8.5. If is not good, anybody can help you (when are read this topic :P)

*EDIT: Read this:

×Colors. Messenger uses many different kinds of internal methods to reference color (using rcclr and rcbkg). Messenger Plus! decrypts all of them and replaces the color with the appropriate RGB code when possible. The alpha channel is also specified when used by a color. Remember that some colors are variations of the user's chosen color (blue by default) and thus, cannot be expressed in RGB code. In that case, a comment is added to show the intensity of the colorized color.

bordercolor:rcclr(46604)   ®    bordercolor:rgb(152,151,139)
background:rcbkd(1458)     ®    background:argb(128,255,255,255)
foreground:rcclr(20090)    ®    foreground:rcclr(20090) /* Colorized. I=128 */
...from the skinning documentation what is writed: Patchou :)

Or, you see that:

http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=fr...2Bcolors%26hl%3Den

French site is translated to english :P Maybe easier the english than french :D

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O.P. RE: [Help] Changing the color of nickname & PSM
I guess I'll have to play with it some more. :P  Thanks for all your help!
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RE: [Help] Changing the color of nickname & PSM
My help for you is not too much :( But, when you use the WLM 9, and you have a problem, you can write to me the question :) Good Luck;)
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