Pro Live Messenger (coding assistance needed)

[Magnus Wild 0]

Hey

Click on the picture for full view.

I'm making a MSN Live Messenger skin, but I'm stuck. So i'm asking for help with the coding. I have posted it as a request over at the Mess.be forum, here. There are some more pictures over there aswell.

Any help is welcome. And comments about the layout are also welcome.

-Magnus Wild

[Austin123 0]

first Amnesia and now Magnus, the old ones are coming back. It looks ****en excellent dont let those get you discouraged, pro and ofcourse Aqua

[Magnus Wild 0]

Hey, nice to see that somebody remember me. and thanks for the comment glad you liked the design.

[nightcrawler1089 0]

Magnus? Who's Magnus? I only remember someone by the name of magbi9 .

-NC

[Dogbert32 0]

It looks really fantastic! Sorry I know nothing to help out, though.

[Magnus Wild 0]

Thanks for the nice comments guys.

One more thing! If there is any Windows Blinds skinners out there, I need somebody to make that skin too.

I dont have the right software to make a WB skin. So just contact me if your up for the job.

I thought about making a matching Windows Blinds skin, for the rest of the system, with elements inspired by iTunes 7, like the scrollbars, and the new toolbar buttons. But need help with that.

Btw. thnx for correcting my spelling in the topic, hehe

[lukevink 0]

HOLY CRAP.... This looks awesome. dude FEW!

I have been waiting for someone to do this for AGES

Keep it up! and for gods sake keep the look of it now, looks brilliant

[aloysAllen 0]

wow... I thought that is iChat for Windows. can't wait for the release

[Sranshaft 0]

For the WB skin, couldn't the OS X Leopard skin by Blitzr be used? The Unified Safari sybstyle is extremely close to this style.

On the skin itself - it's unbelievable. Once it's completed I'll definitely be using it. How far are you into finishing it? If you can let us know where you might be running into problems, I'm sure somebody will be able to help you get this thing out the door and on to our computers.

Edit: You can find some help about the individual sections by reading this. It'll tell you what everything is and where to change things when you open msgsres.dll file in ResHacker.

Also, I've found that Microsoft made it harder to skin because they changed the image format from png to rle which cannot be edited or created by any image editor out currently. There is supposedly a workaround so,...good luck. I'd really like to see this flourish.

[verbalhijacker 0]

Fantastic Lookin skin, i thought i was ichat for windows aswell, glad to see the Grand masters of skinning are back:)

[iGo 0]

because they changed the image format from png to rle which cannot be edited or created by any image editor out currently.

Photoshop can save RLE files. (Document colors should be Indexed instead of RGB and select BMP as filetype, use RLE compression and then rename that filename.bmp to filename.rle)

[Magnus Wild 0]

yeah, it's all that Rle crap, I dont get it hehe. I have made most of the scelleton for the clist, just some sizing, putting the images in, moving stuff around and stuff left. but the colors and stuff, hmmmm... Need some help there.

I havnt done alot to the convo window, and I dont think I will until I have finished the clist. Unless someone takes over the coding of this skin.

[Sranshaft 0]

Have you tried using MemSkin+? I've just been mucking around with it for a few minutes and the one big thing that I prefer is that it doesn't permanently modify any files...

[Magnus Wild 0]

no I havnt. how does it work? I'll check it out. Thanks for the tip.

Edit:

So it is a skin catalog thing? we can probebly use this app to apply it, if there aint no drawback. but first we need to get a coder.

[Sranshaft 0]

This is true. MemSkin+ won't help in the coding but it can be helpful when applying the skin. Hope you can get a coder. I'm looking into it myself but I'm still new to the whole thing. Will have to tinker a little more.

[Magnus Wild 0]

Great, I'm greatfull for your support.

[Sranshaft 0]

How goes the progress?

[Dream_Team 0]

Hey magnus is alive o/

*remembers the iTunes skinner old times*

[Chazoul 0]

This looks awesome, but I can't help.

[Dream_Team 0]

You should try mess.be forums for recuiting a "crew"

[Magnus Wild 0]

Thanks for the comments guys. I have one coder now, so we'll see what this guy comes up with, but help is still welcome.

[Khalua 0]

Holy mother of meeee! That looks awesome. If U need beers, I'll be glad to help. Keep up the good work man. It is incredibly wicked! I hope this can get coded.

[Aquarian 0]

Yeah really nice ..hope you get your stuffs on track and we get the skin .. lol

keep the good work up!

[vishesh_l 0]

yea that looks awesome man,

NICE !

besta luk,

[spyro94 0]

Fantastic Lookin skin, i thought i was ichat for windows aswell, glad to see the Grand masters of skinning are back:)

Speaking of iChat for windows.. what would you say is the closest skin to iChat.. mainly the interface is what I wanna know (the speach bubble thing0 I dont wanna use miranda or trillian.. do you guys know of something to make AIM or AIM Triton have the same interface as iChat?