A Miranda Guide

[Lindkvist]

IEview skins the chat window.

Modern clist (or whatever flavour you have) skins the user list.

None of them skins both, and the PurePlastics template is for IEview and will not change the look of the user list....

There's no plugin that enables skinning of the titlebar or borders, that's not mirandas fault,

that's because noone (users, not dev team) cba to make one since there's very good alternatives for that.

Most people ususally want the same border and titlebar style like the rest of their windows.

If you want a program that can be fully skinned then miranda is not for you.

And i suggest you drop the ****ty attitude when people try to help you, or you'll find yourself alone with your problems in the future.

[Deciever]

well I am on a tight schedule with other things I need to get done so I am kinda stressed out when I really want something to work and work fast.(I just got a problem not being able to focus on something if I start something aka miranda til I finish it which would be to get it working) I just wish the screenshot I saw did not give the impression that it did skin the message windows title bar and border. Could not tell from the screenshot that it was not independent from the other skins, if I would have saw this screenshot I would have understood a lot faster http://img73.imageshack.us/my.php?loc=img7...plastics3fv.jpg

well thx everyone, I finally got it working. And another thing that probably did not help my transition is that I have been using trillian for years so I kinda expected the skins to be independant of the operating system, including it being able to do a lot more. Which it is able to do a lot more, no one happens to know of a program that can apply specific Visual Styles to specific programs aka miranda do ya?

Edited December 8, 2005 by Deciever

[jehdin]

After banging my head over and over as to why certain IEView skins were not working correctly, I finally unearthed why CSS and scripting would not work. It turns out my security settings in IE were turned way up; turning to 'medium' will allow the proper ActiveX scripts work. Hope that helps!

[Nate.E]

Yea deciever, that should do it. And yes you can apply specific visual styles to certain programs through a tweaking utility and i think there's a way to do it w/ reshacker. unfortunately my internet is screwed up so i can't go to that site. I think it's under the "other UI" category at http://wint.virtualplastic.net/hackindex.php

[faller]

Does anyone know how i can make my clist to look like that. I mean, with groups separeted like that. I tried fiddling with margins but with no result...

I found these here, i tried to contact the creator, but he didn't answer:

http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/19141820/

http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/19030603/

[mail]

Does anyone know how i can make my clist to look like that. I mean, with groups separeted like that. I tried fiddling with margins but with no result...

I found these here, i tried to contact the creator, but he didn't answer:

http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/19141820/

http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/19030603/

You make empty groups with no name and place them in between the full groups ..

[speedemonV12]

can u be more specific on how to make the emty group, kuz when i do it, the emty group shows up it is not invisible...

[mail]

can u be more specific on how to make the emty group, kuz when i do it, the emty group shows up it is not invisible...

In ur clist edit section there should be 'Empty Groups' make it all transparent then name ur group with 'space bar' so it will look like spaces .. when u dont want the empty groups right click on your clist and check hide empty groups .

[speedemonV12]

okay thanks got that...now how do i get the expand button on the left of each group to dissapear...you know the one that is a + or - .....thanks

[Nate.E]

SpeedDemon. I think there is a way to seperate the groups through the clist_nicer plugin. There's a "Last contact in a group" thing or something and i think you can change hte spacing. To get rid of the + or - go to the menu, then click on "icons", then on the main icons there should be those icons, import a transparent icon and replace the + and - icons with the trans icon.

[thefonz]

avatars dont show on mine.

they used to, but then suddenly stopped working.

i mean MY avatars, i can see everyone else's fine.

[speedemonV12]

can someone post up a transparent icon for me..i cant make one thanks!!

[faller]

In ur clist edit section there should be 'Empty Groups' make it all transparent then name ur group with 'space bar' so it will look like spaces .. when u dont want the empty groups right click on your clist and check hide empty groups .

Actually, to get rid of the expand/collapse group icons using nicer clist just go to Contact List/List and in Groups choose "No expand/collapse icon". That's it. Simple as that :D

I just wish separating groups was this easy.

[speedemonV12]

i dont have that option....transparent icons please!!!!!

[Nate.E]

Faller: 1. He was talking about seperating the groups. 2. I have used clist_nicer and haven't seen that option anywhere.

SpeedDemon: I'm on a linux computer now, (just got it all set up :D), so i don't have miranda, but i opened up the GIMP(free photoshop alternative) and threw together this icon for you :).

note: I don't have web hosting currently, so i'm using IPB's "attach file" thing. I don't really like these things, so if it doesn't work just pm me and i'll email you the file.

BTW, i don't like gAIM that much, does anybody know of any projects that have miranda ported to linux systems?

transparent.ico

[speedemonV12]

hey thanks a lot..it worked!! and yeah the gimp is great..used to be a linux user myself till my parents removed it from my computer :(

[hotdogz]

I'm new to miranda. I have version 0.4.0.2. How do I get the avatars to show up on my contact list and also using the ICHAT BUBBLES plugins.

When using the ICHAT Bubbles pluggin, I can only see my AVATAR, and I cannot see anyone else, it just gives me a white square with red X in where person's avatar is supposed to go.

[devofash]

hello....... just had a question about miranda .... not sure if this is the rite place to post it but anyways

ermmm the question is about emotions so here goes... say for e.g. i dont have this :yes: emotion on my system and a friend (on msn) posts that emotion while chatting .... so basically i cant c that emotion .... thta's the problem (does tht make sense ?? ) does it happend to everyone of is it just me ?

[vijay_wai]

Hello....sorry if posted in the wrong forum, but I have spent hours sussing for that howto...and now on the edge of giving it up...

can somebody tell me how can I get my chat windows skinned?

Like this

[usemytoes]

how do I make it so I can see my name in a chat window? All I see is arrows to replace names.

[BreakingBenjamin]

How can I get the display pics thumbnails of my contacts in my contact list window?

[Razorwing]

I'm still having problems with IE View.. I can't get the tabs or something to work in my chat box.. can anyone help?

[illicit]

This is a very useful guide. Thanks. :)

[cheazles]

I'm still having problems with IE View.. I can't get the tabs or something to work in my chat box.. can anyone help?

Are you able to screenshot what you have, and an example of what you want?

Does IE View actually work currently?

Are you looking to get several chat sessions in the one window?

Also, posting in the Miranda Customization Thread will generally get more responses, more quickly. I don't think people wander over here too often.

[hipotermia]

CPU: Intel® Pentium® 4 CPU 1.60GHz [x86 Family 15 Model 1 Stepping 2]

Installed RAM: 512 MBytes

Operating System: Microsoft Windows XP [version: 5.1.2600 Service Pack 2]

Administrator privileges: Yes

Free disk space on Miranda partition: 3365 MBytes

Miranda path: C:\Program Files\Miranda IM

Miranda IM version: 0.6.0

Build time: 21:53:48 on 28 December 2006

Profile size: 2,141.92 KBytes

Profile creation date: 01 Jan 2007 at 16:04:13

Language pack: No language pack installed

Nightly: No

Unicode core: No

Active Plugins (19):

Aim.dll v.0.0.0.6 [28 Dec 2006] - AIM OSCAR Plugin - Version 6R

chat.dll v.0.6.1.3 [28 Dec 2006] - Chat

clist_modern.dll v.0.4.3.55 [04 Oct 2006] - Modern Contact List (ANSI)

cln_skinedit.dll v.0.0.0.2 [01 Aug 2006] - Skin editor

dbx_3x.dll v.0.5.2.0 [28 Dec 2006] - Miranda database driver

IcoLib.dll v.0.0.1.6 [25 Oct 2006] - Icons Library Manager (Unicode)

ieview.dll v.1.0.9.4 [07 Jun 2006] - IEView

import.dll v.0.9.2.2 [28 Dec 2006] - Import contacts and messages

IRC.dll v.0.6.4.0 [28 Dec 2006] - IRC Protocol

iTunesNotify.dll v.0.1.0.0 [19 Aug 2005] - iTunes Notify

jabber.dll v.0.6.0.2 [28 Dec 2006] - Jabber Protocol

loadavatars.dll v.0.0.2.5 [01 Aug 2006] - Avatar service

msn.dll v.0.6.0.2 [28 Dec 2006] - MSN Protocol

png2dib.dll v.0.1.3.1 [28 Dec 2006] - PNG images processor

PopUp.dll v.2.0.3.8 [21 Sep 2004] - PopUp Interoperability

smileyadd.dll v.0.1.12.11 [22 Dec 2006] - SmileyAdd

tabsrmm.dll v.1.0.0.1 [09 Aug 2006] - tabSRMsg

VersionInfo.dll v.1.3.2.0 [26 Nov 2006] - Version Information

Yahoo.dll v.0.3.0.10 [28 Dec 2006] - Yahoo Protocol

i have a problem. i can see the others msn avatars, i define mine, but the others cannot see my avatar.

damn, i've been all around this, and i cannot make it work.

thanks!

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