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Thanks, I do have Photoshop so I'll give it a go

djdannyp how did you do the thing for moving the titlebar without declaring it anywhere in skininfo, yes you created it for the optionspanel but i thouyght you have to declare it as true or false in your resgroups, when i had wordwheel locations choosing set in 365 skin declaring true and false resgroups messed up the whole skin and every theme except for christmas theme showed up as the summertime simply because in each resgroup (2 for each theme) i had the true or false setting for wordwheel and the theme setting.

so if you can help me implement my word wheel stuff without actually having to declare a true or false setting in each and every resgroup thatd be greatly appreciated.

like the general idea of the skin however these girls dont really show you much flesh do they? i mean with lindsay lohan for example all she does is pull up her top to show off her belly button, shed be sexier in a bikini lol

i couldn't find a good quality lindsay lohan bikini picture to include.  and besides, it's supposed to be about appreciating them, not having porn, lol.

i tried to make the pictures as sexy as possible without breaching NSFW rules, as that's not what the skin is about.

as for the titlebar, it is declared in my skininfo, the option is in there, and then within the 923 definition file for the contact list i have added the <*PlusSkin*> tags like you're supposed to for options like that:

code:

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<*PlusSkin Conditions(TitleBarPos = "Top") *><element layoutpos=top layout=filllayout()></*PlusSkin*>
<*PlusSkin Conditions(TitleBarPos = "Bottom") *><element layoutpos=bottom layout=filllayout()></*PlusSkin*>

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you just find the element where it gives the position of the element and then duplicate that line for when it is true and false

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Originally posted by stuartbennett
these girls dont really show you much flesh do they? i mean with lindsay lohan for example all she does is pull up her top to show off her belly button, shed be sexier in a bikini

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People can be sexy with clothes on , in many cases sexier than borderline porn pics too.

under options>skins>properties> you created a multival control called titlebarpos however its my understanding that you need to in each resgroup do the following

quote:

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<SkinOptions>
<OptionSet>
<MultiVal Name="TitleBarPos">Top</MultiVal>
</OptionSet>
</SkinOptions>

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that was what i did for the word wheel option in 365 skin but because i had more than one option decalred in my optionset for a given resgroup it didnt like it.

i do know how to put the plusskin tags into the UIFiles its just you not putting in the skinoptions tags for the titlebar option in your resgroups through me as as far as i know they are supposed to be there.

EDIT:

Menthix i wasnt asking for fully nude or even topless pictures all i said was bikini pics, yes women can look sexy with clothes on its ust im one of those people who likes to see as much flesh as possible without it going pornographic. id never expect porn or topless in a skin as i know messenger plus is child friendly so cant support adult content but bikini pics arent really porn are they?

quote:

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Originally posted by stuartbennett
under options>skins>properties> you created a multival control called titlebarpos however its my understanding that you need to in each resgroup do the following

quote:

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<SkinOptions>
<OptionSet>
<MultiVal Name="TitleBarPos">Top</MultiVal>
</OptionSet>
</SkinOptions>

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that was what i did for the word wheel option in 365 skin but because i had more than one option decalred in my optionset for a given resgroup it didnt like it.

i do know how to put the plusskin tags into the UIFiles its just you not putting in the skinoptions tags for the titlebar option in your resgroups through me as as far as i know they are supposed to be there.

EDIT:

Menthix i wasnt asking for fully nude or even topless pictures all i said was bikini pics, yes women can look sexy with clothes on its ust im one of those people who likes to see as much flesh as possible without it going pornographic. id never expect porn or topless in a skin as i know messenger plus is child friendly so cant support adult content but bikini pics arent really porn are they?

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i don't know where you got that idea from about the "Multival" thing like that in each resgroup......that isn't how you do it

all you do is put the option in the options place, and then in the definition file you have to use <*PlusSkin*> tags, look through the documentation and it explains it perfectly, or look at my code to see how i've done it.

also, on a side note, 28/45 pictures currently included in the skin are bikini/underwear pictures....they're very much accepted and where possible i use those pictures, but i also want the celebrity to look their best and i have to find suitably sized pictures to go in the allocated areas

Can you use some better images?

The images you used are horribly rendered, as in, you've(or someone has) cut them off a background, the result being dodgy images.



Secondly imo the main image used in the skin - the woman standing up - is of too low a quality, in such that it is pretty blurry. I would say the skin needed clear images to make it look good, ones that have been cut properly.


For example, something more of this quality:



Relatively small file size too, 267kb, and it's probably bigger dimensions than the one you're using now. Of course you couldn't use that image though, as her head has been chopped off

thanks for the tips danny i will try them in my skin to try and fix the word wheel problem, i do see what you mean about you wanting the celebrity to look her best i guess i can learn to live with it.

gotta say the res of those images from the screenshots is terrible