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RE: [How To] - Update Your Skin
you could just try to make it for 8.5 and let us enjoy i!
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at present my skin is only for 8.5 making compatability for other versions takes far to long at present to be feasable.
01-03-2008 06:59 PM
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RE: [How To] - Update Your Skin
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at present my skin is only for 8.5 making compatability for other versions takes far to long at present to be feasable.
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It's just the same amount of time as making a skin for 8.5 from scratch for the first time. Probably even shorter, as all you really have to do is create a new resgroup and then work out what ids have changed, add the new files in, under a different folder for ease and then fix any graphical hitches. It's hardly unfeasible.
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RE: [How To] - Update Your Skin
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at present my skin is only for 8.5 making compatability for other versions takes far to long at present to be feasable.
How?

It's just the same amount of time as making a skin for 8.5 from scratch for the first time. Probably even shorter, as all you really have to do is create a new resgroup and then work out what ids have changed, add the new files in, under a different folder for ease and then fix any graphical hitches. It's hardly unfeasible.

if it was a single themed skin then i would agree with you, however creating a seperate copy of each themes resgroup for each version of messenger you plan to support at present my skin has 7 themes for me to make compatable for 9.0 i have to duplicate each resgroup meaning a total of 14 resgroups once i get to my target of 13 themes thatll be 26 resgroups, all the work i have done thus far has taken nearly 5 weeks so going by your analysis itll take a further 5 weeks to add compatability for another version of messenger, yes its not impossible but i will probably wait until all the themes are built and perfected and released to the database before i start coding in compatability for addition versions of messenger.

hopefully by then 9.0 will be released properly (non beta)
01-03-2008 07:35 PM
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Exactly, so it's not unfeasible.
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