"My" Msn Messenger

[j005u]

I think it's possible. You just have to rez hack the right uifile.

Check to mess.be forums for all the specifics..

[DomZ]

Thanks to patchers suck asthe mess.be patch / a-patch my msn is *nearly* perfect.

However if it's possible I'd love to remove the top part (where my name and DP picture is).

Below is some concept art of how I'd love my msn to look, althought it's probably not even possible.

Edited October 4, 2005 by DomZ

[dwntwn]

There are two things you can do to get your MSN Close to that :)

1.) Remove the Tabs Here

2.) Remove the Ads Here

Here is what my MSN looks like after them there changes.

[ahmz]

Using Resource Hacker, open msnmsgr.exe and...

1. Search for:

<MeArea

You'll see the following in UIFILE 923

<MeArea id=atom(idMeArea) layout=filllayout() layoutpos=top padding=ifhc(rect(2,2,2,2),rect(0,0,0,0))>

Delete id=atom(idMeArea) and change layoutpos=top to layoutpos=none

Compile Script.

2. Search for:

<element Background=argb(0,0,0,0) ContentAlign=BottomLeft

You'll see the following in UIFILE 923:

<element Background=argb(0,0,0,0) ContentAlign=BottomLeft Layout=NineGridLayout() Width=250 Height=100 id=atom(idZeroBuddyBubble) Visible=False>

Change Height=100 to Height=0

Compile Script.

Result:

You can keep going if you want to...

3. Search for:

<element id=atom(content) layout=borderlayout()>

You'll see this in UIFILE 923:

<element id=atom(content) layout=borderlayout()>
<element id=atom(togglecont) layoutpos=ifhc(none,top) layout=borderlayout()>
<CmdCheckBox id=atom(togglebtn) cmdid=35120 layout=flowlayout(0,2,2,2)>
<png class="CaptionImg" id=atom(togglebtnimg) margin=rect(1,3,0,0) flip=false idres=1063 contentalign=middlecenter/>
</CmdCheckBox>
<element layoutpos=left layout=flowlayout(0,2,0,1) direction=ltr>
<png class="CaptionImg" id=atom(msnlogo) flip=false idres=ifhc(0,2021) padding=ifhc(rect(0,0,4,0),rect(0,-3,0,0)) colorize=Disabled/>
<element id=atom(messengertext) content="Messenger" fontface=rcstr(61726) fontsize=rcint(61727)pt fontweight=rcint(1999)/>
<element id=atom(brandeduitext) layoutpos=none visible=false content=rcstr(61143) fontface=rcstr(61726) fontsize=rcint(61727)pt fontweight=rcint(1999)/>
</element>
<element id=atom(captionbtngrpbase) layoutpos=client layout=borderlayout() padding=rect(0,0,5,0) active=inactive>
<element id=atom(minmaxclosebase) layout=flowlayout(0,2,0,2)>
<cmdbutton cmdid=40044 class="CaptionBtn" layout=filllayout()><png idres=1063/></cmdbutton>
<cmdbutton cmdid=40320 class="CaptionBtn" layout=filllayout() AccName=rcstr(47003) AccDesc=rcstr(47003) active=mouse>
<png class="CaptionImg" idres=866/>
</cmdbutton>
<cmdbutton cmdid=40321 class="CaptionBtn" layout=filllayout() AccName=rcstr(47004) AccDesc=rcstr(47004) active=mouse>
<png class="CaptionImg" idres=867   />
</cmdbutton>
<cmdbutton cmdid=1110 class="CaptionBtn" layout=filllayout() AccName=rcstr(47005) AccDesc=rcstr(47005) active=mouse>
<png class="CaptionImg" idres=868 contentalign=middlecenter padding=rect(0,0,0,0)/>
</cmdbutton>

Replace it with this:

<element id=atom(content) layout=borderlayout()>
<element id=atom(togglecont) layoutpos=ifhc(none,top) layout=borderlayout()>
<element layoutpos=left layout=flowlayout(0,2,0,1) direction=ltr>
</element>
<element id=atom(captionbtngrpbase) layoutpos=client layout=borderlayout() padding=rect(0,0,5,0) active=inactive>
<element id=atom(minmaxclosebase) layout=flowlayout(0,2,0,2)>

Result:

[Jase]

^ oooo tutorials, thanks alot Ahmz055 (Y)

[Apache-User]

hmm while someone is posting howto's i'll give it a try and ask if anybody could tell me where to locate the "what im lisenig" or text area...

what i wanna do is move it down a bit but i cant find the values for it

[DomZ]

Thanks alot Ahmz! I'm a happy bunny now.

[Apache-User]

bump any help here? just wanna move this down a bit see image

[spex04]

^^ I dunno how to do that, but thanks the Ahmz055, MSN looks muuuuch cleaner now.. (Y)

[Zxian]

Does anyone know how to remove the tooltips when you hover over groups and/or users?

[Jesse Carlton]

that's the best msn hack ever...get rid of the crap

Any way to make so it's full normally, then when you click the little up/down arrow button, it collabses to just the contact list?

[srb]

uh

nice one

[Prometheus]

Since we are on the topic of msn help i haev a question

Here is how my msn chatting window currently looks like:

I would like to somehow add the persons nickname on the top of the bar so i know who im talking to.

Like before in the old version of the messenger you could , see the persons nickname even though you took away the annoying windows tool bar.

Please if anyone could help since this is on the topic of editing msn :D

[Zxian]

Yeah... I'd really love to get rid of the tooltips. If I could have that I'd be a really really happy bunny... :p