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Hi All

Several days ago i asked you for a tutorial for
adding a hyperlink to my MSN

People here where so kind to help me with this

I made some progress in locating the file, but i still did
not figure out excactly how to do this.
I have some experience with resource hacker, but i still
did not manage to make a hyperlink there.
Is there anyone kind enough, that can make me the script.
I mean  all the lines. so i can copy paste it inside of there please ?

this is the link i want to add

http://www.nzbpirates.com/forum/index.php

thank you.

If you're trying to use the HTML code (<a href> etc.) to put a hyperlink in your skin, this is impossible as Messenger does not support the HTML standards, but rather uses a mix of XML and something like CSS.

The only way (that I know of) to put a link in a skin is to put <AboutUrl>http://www.example.com/</AboutUrl> in your SkinInfo, inside the <Information> tags. This will add a link to the website of your choice in the Messenger Skin menu located in the Plus! dropdown in your contact list.

To add this link to the UIFiles, you will need to create a new element or replace the content of an existing one (make sure it's nothing important, though, like the Send button ). For example, with the 947 UIFiles (the login screen):

Find "idForgotPasswordLink" (without the quotes) in the 947 definition and you will find a <urlelement> for the Forgot Password link. The element must be a urlelement, otherwise it may not work. Change the cmdid to 7461, this is the ID Plus! uses to open the current skin's AboutUrl. You can change the text shown on this link to whatever you want, by searching for the id of the element in the respective window's style file.

Hope this helps

Thank you for your reply.

I tried your method, but i was still unable to get it done.
There was a previous reply from me where people here
commented on too. I tried that several times but it still did
not work. Someone called Nundu had managed in doing it, it seemed.
I was hoping since i could not manage it. If there
was a way that someone could help me out by making me
a text document with the whole ui already prepped with
the url link on it. So i could simply copy paste it in.
I know it is possible. 3 years ago me and a friend of mine
made an MSN mod for a game. It had those links added to
them. and there was several of them there. ( 6 links )
Unfortunately i lost all the info on how to do this.
And i am not that good on modifying MSN like you people.
This is why i want to ask if someone can make the whole
ui with the modded lines on text document. Just Hyperlink lines
will be good enough for this.

I would be very gratefull.

greetings,

Garmonbozia

Unfortunately, there is no possible way to include a link other than using the AboutUrl. It may have been possible during the time of MSN Messenger, but afaik it used DirectUI then as well.

Attached are the 947 style and definition edited as per my previous post.

Ok well thank you for your time.

greetz

Garmonbozia