Shoutbox

New Update is available on the skins database. This fixes any weird resizing that people may get whilst using the skin.

Is it me, or does this gap seem overly large?


It just seems to be really out place, compared to all the other messenger alerts. i.e. MDL, Messenger Plus.

Yeah its because size calculations are still the same so it thinks the alert is the original size. unfortunately i cant edit the spacing between each alert but I could edit the actual alert size which is odd.

You get used to it after a while. Its just one of those things where I was tricking messenger into doing something I wanted it to

What font do you use for interface text? It's showing an ugly font (the default Chinese font) under my Chinese Windows 7

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Originally posted by Mnjul
What font do you use for interface text? It's showing an ugly font (the default Chinese font) under my Chinese Windows 7

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Using a mix of helvetica fonts which from memory doesn't have chinese characters. Probably why its happening. I may have to look into using a special font for chinese if its turning out ugly as you say it is.

Well, I got it - I don't have Helvetica on my Windows. Does it come with Windows 7 preinstalled (on English versions)?

the font is bundled with the skin so I don't think its that.

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Originally posted by Willz
the font is bundled with the skin so I don't think its that.

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Does that mean I should have Helvetica listed in my windows fonts when I have the skin installed? This is not the case for me.

Anyway, I have the screenshot of the sign-in window, with and without your skin.
I don't know about you, but for me, the font is really ugly (and ugly-ly bigger) when your skin is applied

And I downloaded/installed Helvetica fonts and it's still not fixed D:

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Originally posted by Mnjul

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Originally posted by Willz
the font is bundled with the skin so I don't think its that.

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Does that mean I should have Helvetica listed in my windows fonts when I have the skin installed? This is not the case for me.

Anyway, I have the screenshot of the sign-in window, with and without your skin.
I don't know about you, but for me, the font is really ugly (and ugly-ly bigger) when your skin is applied

And I downloaded/installed Helvetica fonts and it's still not fixed D:

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Yeah you are right, its ugly. The skin works best with sans serif fonts.

With the font being bundled it just means the skin should load the font from the skin install directory and use it in the skin. If you want you can try installing the font manually by going into the skins folder and grabbing the font from there, but I don't think it will do much good.

More than likely I will have to pick a font specific to use in the chinese version of Messenger, The only thing is I don't know what would be the best font to use.

Yeah you're right, manually installing the fonts inside the skin directory didn't work.

btw, it's not Chinese version of WLM - my WLM is English. But the Windows is Chinese. As for the font, this will be good, I presume:
http://www.microsoft.com/typography/fonts/family.aspx?FID=368
(Downside is that XP by default doesn't have this, unless Office 2007+ is installed. But then again, Windows XP's Chinese versions don't have any sans-serif Chinese fonts at all.)
- Also you won't want to bundle the Chinese font in your plsk - Chinese font file size are prohibitively large, usually as high as several MBs.