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O.P. Custom Status Frame
Can someone please create a simple skin for WLM9 that allows us to choose different color status frame for each status. Such as Blue Frame for the status "avaliable"

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01-24-2009 11:44 AM
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RE: Custom Status Frame
Nice idea, I dont think it is even possible to do so though.
01-24-2009 05:14 PM
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EDIT: Don't know why I understood something different 8-)

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01-24-2009 07:19 PM
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Nice idea, I dont think it is even possible to do so though.

Sure it is :P

just do some tinkering around with hue adjustments, enter them in as resources, add some options and there you go.
01-25-2009 11:29 PM
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actually, i pressed the "Extract Resources" in Skin Developers in msgplus. And i found out that the green frame is a png named 4401_var.png and the orange frame 4402_var.png and the other frames are simmilar. So not really chaging hue. The problem is that i don't know how to write a sript/skin to replace those 4 pics. If u (Ryxdp), it would be greatly appreciate.


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Originally posted by Moh Zayadi
Nice idea, I dont think it is even possible to do so though.

Sure it is :P

just do some tinkering around with hue adjustments, enter them in as resources, add some options and there you go.
01-26-2009 12:02 PM
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Originally posted by ck472006
actually, i pressed the "Extract Resources" in Skin Developers in msgplus. And i found out that the green frame is a png named 4401_var.png and the orange frame 4402_var.png and the other frames are simmilar. So not really chaging hue. The problem is that i don't know how to write a sript/skin to replace those 4 pics. If u (Ryxdp), it would be greatly appreciate.

You still might have to do some hue adjustments if you want other colours than green, orange and red :P and also there are the animated frames (examples 48000 and 48026). From there it's just a simple matter of replacing the images. I haven't done anything with WLM9 yet, but perhaps I'll try and whip something up here.

An interesting thing to note, though, is that Plus! can't decrypt some RLEs properly, so it sets the image to 100x100 and puts _var on the end. This means that quite a few of these images are not the right size, and I hope that Patchou can fix this in 4.80.
01-26-2009 11:09 PM
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Ok. Thanks. I hope Patchou can fix that in 4.80. Anyway, i hope u will try and make the plugin. So thanks in advance.


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actually, i pressed the "Extract Resources" in Skin Developers in msgplus. And i found out that the green frame is a png named 4401_var.png and the orange frame 4402_var.png and the other frames are simmilar. So not really chaging hue. The problem is that i don't know how to write a sript/skin to replace those 4 pics. If u (Ryxdp), it would be greatly appreciate.

You still might have to do some hue adjustments if you want other colours than green, orange and red :P and also there are the animated frames (examples 48000 and 48026). From there it's just a simple matter of replacing the images. I haven't done anything with WLM9 yet, but perhaps I'll try and whip something up here.

An interesting thing to note, though, is that Plus! can't decrypt some RLEs properly, so it sets the image to 100x100 and puts _var on the end. This means that quite a few of these images are not the right size, and I hope that Patchou can fix this in 4.80.
01-27-2009 04:52 AM
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