Shoutbox

thanks for the help, that is very helpful, i am getting most of this stuff, styles is no different really than styles classes in like html, jsut gotta learnt he syntax..

i was aiming more tword any tutorials out there for the UIFIles in previous version of msn messenger, i have searched google for it before, but like you said, most that was to be found dealt with logon screen, and most didnt say what stuff meant, jsut what to change haha

Bumping back up.
its been a long time. this is for people who don't want to download skins for MSN to have a background that they didnt create.

use this to change the "behind contact list" area to ANY IMAGE that you created.

wow its been almost a year since this.

just a random bump to bring her to life

just use the lvback.gif . Please dont ressurect old threads, for all your skinning info please check out http://messenger-skins.net or http://messengerlab.com.

Wow.. I remember this post... but its really not needed in MSN 7.5 anymore because they reimplemented lvback.gif
Although we could get some nice effects by implementing this code such as alpha and tiling the image

It's different now for most things in 7.5. Uifiles have changed and so has this code.