alrighty, a lot of people have been messaging me about my modified miranda with the super slim message dialog window, soooo i thought id post a thread here at my favoritist custo site!
after doing this, run it and open your miranda options. youll want to go to the 'Messaging' section and make sure your options are set the same as this screen shot shows... http://erebus.megalixer.com/msgops.jpg (you really just want to make sure the options i've kissed are the same)
thats really all i wanted to say... if you have any further questions, my contact into is in my custo user page. (although i tend to be a bit preoccupied at times)
thanks mojo for hosting the miranda file. shouts to #custo =^D
lalalaa
06:13 pm, Thursday, December 11, 2003 (5 years ago)
trillian is bulky and not near as customizable as miranda. its also slower.
miranda is open source, light weight, has a multitude of plug ins, and can be customized to perfection. (although the aim plug in does use the toc protocal, which means you dont get direct im's, etc... but it is a small loss for what you get.)
i know this isn’t a discussion of the likeability of miranda, but i wanted to share my opinion.
i have been using miranda from using trillian for a while now and have one main complaint. it has been discussed for a long time, and thought of as useless by some; but i like meta contacts. the ability to house several contacts from varying networks into one name. i have a lot of use for it; i use each network for its own features.
however, miranda's current structure doesn’t allow for such a thing, even with plug-ins.
also, the msn plug-in is horribly written and buggy.
along with a few other bugs and visual discrepancies; i still prefer it over even trillian pro.
oh also, i have a question for ere.mite. what version of miranda is this for? as the miranda.exe sometimes changes from nightly to nightly.
can you enlighten us on how this is accomplished. i have done a little resource hacking of the message window, but it seems too much change will cause an error.
I took a look at the hacks made to the dialog while I was modifying my srmm.dll to match (bless those devs for making the message dialog a plugin). The only major change I could see that eremite did was to change the font from 8 pt MS Shell Dlg to 1 pt Arial.
Regarding hacking the message dialog, it's actually quite easy to hack. I've got a copy of a hacked srmm.dll made to be similar to eremites, but it isn't really it (I couldn't wait for a reply from him, so I took matters into my own hands). You only need to keep four things: the history, the input, the divider that separates the two and allows them to be resized, and the send button. Example: I have a one pixel gap between my history and my input fields, which is where that divider (one pixel high) goes. The send button got sized down to 0 pixels by 0 pixels. The only problem with this is that the input field isnt resizeable. Once you touch it (the divider), it (the input field) gets stuck to the bottom, 13 pixels high. But since I'm not planning on ever resizing that portion of my messaging dialog, it's not something I'm worrying about. :)
it was quite easy how i hacked it. the message dialog is kinda tricky to mess with and after spending all day, i set the dialog to a standard font at its lowest size and it produced working results!
i also deleted some.. 2 i think?, controls from the dialog which no longer serve a purpose as they cant even be seen. originally i found that if you deleted certain buttons on the dialog that plug ins wouldnt work such as the smileyadd one, so i went ahead and left everything else on the dialog...
i also hex edited the file to remove ": Message Session" from the window title.. so now all it shows is "Contact (Status)" this could also be changed to simply 'Contact', ofcourse, or perhaps even a static title eh?
its one of the occurances of '%s (%s)' and i dont recall which one... sorry... (i think theres like, 3 or 4 of them..)
