Rekoil Posted December 5, 2004 Share Posted December 5, 2004 this is some nice ****... about the shadow around the chat window, i dont think its possible to do that without an external program that puts the shadow on all programs and explorer windows (i.e Y'z Shadow) but for all means keep looking for a way coz i dont really know that much about programming. absolutely love the design tho keep up the good work ppl p.s please send me beta :D i wont leak it (honest to god) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
enigma-penguin Veteran Posted December 5, 2004 Veteran Share Posted December 5, 2004 Well theres are really ways around anything if you try hard enough... Ive tried a few ways so far :/ The only option I really have left is to throw them both in new elements add some padding and set a background image (after removing the borders.. which ive done before anyways) btw Its not really programing, its all resource hacking ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zhangm Supervisor Posted December 5, 2004 Supervisor Share Posted December 5, 2004 Changing the top and bottom windowframes to 0px might make it look better. <element layout=borderlayout()> <png class="Chrome" layoutpos=left blendmode=7 isbackground=true idres=855 width=0/> <png class="Chrome" layoutpos=right blendmode=7 isbackground=true idres=856 width=0/> <png class="Chrome" layoutpos=bottom blendmode=7 isbackground=true idres=857 height=0/> </element> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
enigma-penguin Veteran Posted December 5, 2004 Veteran Share Posted December 5, 2004 making the bottom window fram 0px removes the bottom bar, plus the left and right are already a 0px tho Im using blendmode 5 not 7 and ive left colorize on Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
porky Posted December 5, 2004 Author Share Posted December 5, 2004 Hmm... which buttons do you mean? The Invite, Send Files, Audio ect.? :huh: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
enigma-penguin Veteran Posted December 5, 2004 Veteran Share Posted December 5, 2004 yes those would be the ones im after, as transparent pngs of course... :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
enigma-penguin Veteran Posted December 5, 2004 Veteran Share Posted December 5, 2004 Im come bearing gifts, but not the big one.. just the final screenshot im going to give will Im done ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt T Posted December 5, 2004 Share Posted December 5, 2004 I like the tabs idea and how you use them, but otherwise it's basicly the same looking msn with an uglier GUI :| Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
enigma-penguin Veteran Posted December 5, 2004 Veteran Share Posted December 5, 2004 For me this was never about doing a great looking skin that everyone liked, for me it was about thowing up some new ideas ... instead of just some new colour scheme (as alot of skins seem to be). Ive been throwing in various different things about, including this im doing that I havent shown you guys in screenshot versions. This was simply an experiment, based on trojans mock up and somewhere i could try things out... Im open to ideas for another layout if you have one, Im aways willing to try something else out ;) (but like I said Im not a graphics man) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
porky Posted December 5, 2004 Author Share Posted December 5, 2004 Once again... wow. Didja get the PM? It doesn't really help, just the transparency and the higher quality. It's coming along great! I tried doing this with a skin tool I found on Mess.be, but it didn't look so great. Thanks for doing this, by the way. I wish I could help out a little more. :laugh: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+dave164 Subscriber¹ Posted December 5, 2004 Subscriber¹ Share Posted December 5, 2004 I would use it if it was in a blue theme.... Like the orange top and bottom... dave164 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rollinup Posted December 5, 2004 Share Posted December 5, 2004 Very VERY nice (Y) I'd download it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
enigma-penguin Veteran Posted December 5, 2004 Veteran Share Posted December 5, 2004 (edited) I would use it if it was in a blue theme....Like the orange top and bottom... dave164 585045479[/snapback] You know dave, I was thinking that about an hour ago.. ;) Trojan.. I never recieved that pm im affraid and theres not much more I can really do without the images. I failed in my attempt to add the tab for peoples names, I was able to produce the tab, but it became to difficult to conect it to anything else on the chat window. (I will however add a background to the contact list) also in my little wander into blue.. I forgot to backup orange lol >_< ill fix that in a bit Edited December 5, 2004 by EnIgMa-PenGuIn Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dredd Posted December 5, 2004 Share Posted December 5, 2004 Well, I know there was a forum somewhere where you could post your MSN Messenger mockups, but I couldn't find it... so I thought I'd just share mine with you. This design just popped into my head, and took me about 3 hours to successfully create. Most of the graphics are based on Longhorn screenshots, but some are just from XP. Messenger 7 looks really cool, but this is better. :yes: Enjoy! P.S. This is just a MOCKUP, an image created in Photoshop. I haven't actually coded anything. Yet. :ninja: http://img117.exs.cx/img117/5282/q7pscreenshot.jpg 585003323[/snapback] very nice Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
porky Posted December 5, 2004 Author Share Posted December 5, 2004 I just resent the PM, Penguin. But just in case you didn't get it again... :ninja: These are my mockup's icons, with transparency in a PNG format. I don't care who uses them, because I just took them from shell32.dll anyways. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazildondude Posted December 5, 2004 Share Posted December 5, 2004 That is a damn nice job ^_^, definitely keeping an eye on this thread for furthur developments. Would definitely download that when it's done! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
agoNITE Posted December 6, 2004 Share Posted December 6, 2004 check this site for tips on skinning :) be sure to check out the forums also. its from the dude who gave us the best msn skins ever :) http://www.rolandunderground.tk/ http://www.messenger-skins.net/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
enigma-penguin Veteran Posted December 6, 2004 Veteran Share Posted December 6, 2004 Im going ok for now, If I need some help Ill be sure you pull out the big guns. only things giving me grief atm are: -A blue line that separates the buddy list and the idMeAreaButtons section, I was hoping to give the feel of having on open tab with the "contacts" section. - The mail button not acting like the rest of the ToolbarBtn's and having a 3dbox outline - The - [] x buttons (Ill move them later and I might remove the 3d boxes) - The togglebtn (easy fixed) - The AvatarHostRoundedFrame doesnt have a transparent edge (yet) and the fact that doing a tab for the person your talking to isnt really possible and niether is doing the shaded rounded edges to the convinput and conv sections :/ (well at least the ways ive tried) reminder to self: add suppress content to the block button Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
enigma-penguin Veteran Posted December 7, 2004 Veteran Share Posted December 7, 2004 ok Well ive done just about all I can do to this program with the time I have and unfortunatly Im now out of time. Heres what I ended up with: (Ive blanked out the buddy list because that was the one thing I didnt have time finish) If anyone has the time/skill to finish the skin pm me and I'll be happy to pass along a copy to you, but I do not have time to finish it. Regards EnIgma-PenGuIn Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drumy Posted December 7, 2004 Share Posted December 7, 2004 ok Well ive done just about all I can do to this program with the time I have and unfortunatly Im now out of time.Heres what I ended up with: http://enigma-penguin.info/skin.png (Ive blanked out the buddy list because that was the one thing I didnt have time finish) If anyone has the time/skill to finish the skin pm me and I'll be happy to pass along a copy to you, but I do not have time to finish it. Regards EnIgma-PenGuIn 585056747[/snapback] holy crap! thats some nice ****! when r u going to finish Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jase Posted December 7, 2004 Share Posted December 7, 2004 Very nice (Y) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cloud Geek Posted December 15, 2004 Share Posted December 15, 2004 very nice work now all you need to do is make it available to downlaod 585003627[/snapback] yup lol sorry just read that it was a mock up and have just edited this post Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fishie Posted December 19, 2004 Share Posted December 19, 2004 mockup i was bored Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
enigma-penguin Veteran Posted December 19, 2004 Veteran Share Posted December 19, 2004 Interesting idea.. its a shame that transparency like that cannot be done within the uifiles :( a nice idea tho (Y) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fishie Posted December 19, 2004 Share Posted December 19, 2004 there are lots of posts in the msn newsgroups about glass looking ui Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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