[Release] Vista Glass

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Vista Glass 1.4

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Here's my try at skinning Miranda IM's contact list to look like Aero Glass, the new user interface found in Microsoft's latest operating system, Windows Vista.

The icon on the title bar opens the main menu, minimize and close buttons do what they should, along with the pretty glow.

Change Log:

Version 1.4

- More title bar tweaking.

- New, authentic group row graphics.

- Changed from hover to normal state graphics for scrollbars.

Version 1.3

- New, authentic Aero Glass window borders.

Version 1.2

- Tweaked title bar buttons.

- Fixed sizing issue on main menu icon.

Version 1.1

- Tweaked title bar buttons.

Version 1.0

- First release.

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Installation Instructions:

First, If you are not running Windows 2000/XP/2003 don't bother. Windows 95/98/ME does not support Window Per-Pixel Alpha Blending.

1. Make sure you have the latest build of Miranda IM from here. Unzip to a directory of your choice.

2. Make sure you have the latest build of Modern Contact List Layered from here. Unzip this to the plugins directory that is located in the directory you unzipped/installed Miranda IM to.

3. Run Miranda, and make sure that in the options window, under plugins, that Modern Contact List Layered is selected and other contact list plugins are NOT selected.

4. Restart Miranda.

5. Create a "Modern Contact List Layered Skins" directory in the Miranda directory. You can name your skins directory what ever you'd like. Unzip my Vista skin to this directory.

6. Go back into the Miranda options window, and go to Customize -> Skin. Use the "Browse" button on this page to select the msf file in the directory you unzipped the skin to. Once the skin shows up in the options window, click Apply (the one just below the Browse button).

7. To get the contact list to look like mine, disable group icons. (Contact List -> Row Items -> Icon Tab -> Check "Hide Groups Icon")

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You in part were my inspiration, russellc. Along with KoL and Microsoft lol. You can release yours when ever you'd like. I don't mind. I made this for myself and thought I'd share it. ModernClear was great but I wanted to do my own thang and make me a Vista skin lol, and the ones I found on Miranda weren't up to my expectations.

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You in part were my inspiration, russellc. Along with KoL and Microsoft lol. You can release yours when ever you'd like. I don't mind. I made this for myself and thought I'd share it. ModernClear was great but I wanted to do my own thang and make me a Vista skin lol, and the ones I found on Miranda weren't up to my expectations.

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haha great. yeah, modernclear was motivated from lack of skins that i liked on the miranda site :p ..your skin is great as well, got me thinking that i should give it a shot as well, and it didn't turn out that bad at all :p ..anyway, great skin jimbo! thanks for the compliment, btw :D

@Lord Dufus: i'll refer you to this post which was posted in my modernclear thread. it pretty much covers everything you need to do to get skins working. just skip step #5 there (as that was just a problem with my skin at the time)

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