Shoutbox

When I had started my skin a month or so ago, I didn't even think about the problems I would face with a patched messenger. I read a couple weeks ago NOT to skin on a patched messenger cause it wouldn't work for others or something unless they had the same patch settings as you.

Anyways, I decided to uninstall WLM and then reinstall a clean version with ONLY mp!l as the only addon. I moved my skin folder back into skins, and enabled my skin. It said it was applied, but there were no changes at all to how my skin looked.

So is there an easy way to get my skin I made on a patched messenger to work on a fresh install?

Get a program such as AptDiff (program that compares 2 files together and shows the differences).

Compare your skins strings and definition files with UNEDITED ones.

Check what strings you changed, and find out what they should be....etc.

That would be my only idea besides starting fresh

The fact that your skin is shown does not mean something. It would be shown just because there is a SkinInfo with its name in the skins directory. You can check if there is a Skin trace so that you find out what mistakes you have made. If there is no Skin trace then I suggest you do what SonicSam told you.

I don't understand the problem, if the skin is appearing exactly how you want it to appear then there is nothing wrong regardless of what others have said regarding patches.

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Originally posted by Volv
I don't understand the problem, if the skin is appearing exactly how you want it to appear then there is nothing wrong regardless of what others have said regarding patches.

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What if he wants to release it?

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Originally posted by Vilkku

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Originally posted by Volv
I don't understand the problem, if the skin is appearing exactly how you want it to appear then there is nothing wrong regardless of what others have said regarding patches.

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What if he wants to release it?

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If that's how he wants his skin to look then he has every right to release it as is... Unless ofcourse he has patched away adverts - which has not been mentioned at all.

yeah, but the point is that if he releases a skin with files from a patched messenger (A-Patch, MessPatch, etc) then it won't show up correctly for anyone who doesn't have that patch installed.

yes they will... the patching programs edit the resources that you are editing... well they do it before you... so if you dont have the patch installed it will be exactly the same because you extract the resources that have been patched...
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i hope i made sense there

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Originally posted by djdannyp
yeah, but the point is that if he releases a skin with files from a patched messenger (A-Patch, MessPatch, etc) then it won't show up correctly for anyone who doesn't have that patch installed.

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Unless the patch is adding or replacing images (which pretty much doesn't happen with patches, and if it did it would only require the skin dev to add/replace the required images, not start again from scratch on an unpatched version) then it should work perfectly fine.

Yes, NanaFreak is right. What he's trying to say is that patches modify the resources which are then used in the development of the skin, so the changes made by the patches will be included in the skin too. It won't cause any problems, all users installing/applying the skin will see it exactly the same as the developer.

If the skin works properly on Windows Live Messenger 8.5 then you are free to release it.