changing the color of buddies in the buddy list

exstasy · Post by **exstasy** » Wed Jan 22, 2003 4:19 am

is this possible?

Anthony · Post by **Anthony** » Wed Jan 22, 2003 7:17 am

Not that any one knows.

Master Jedi · Post by **Master Jedi** » Wed Jan 22, 2003 3:53 pm

exstasy wrote:is this possible?

Yes. As a matter of fact I would write a program to do it, but I only have VB 6 learning edition. I have VB 4 professional, but it's not capable of doing it efficiently. All it requires is:

1. Hook the control that displays the users on the buddy list (I don't know its cass name off the top of my head).

2. Use one of the drawing APIs or BitBlt to change the color of the balck pixels on the buddy list to the color(s)/image of your choice whenever your hooking procedure intercepts a WM_PAINT message.

It's actually a lot simpler than it sounds. In VB the code would be less than 1 kb.

aclauser wrote:Not that any one knows.

Am I not someone?

Anthony · Post by **Anthony** » Wed Jan 22, 2003 6:00 pm

We are talking the yellow highlight color right? Okay you learn something new everday, I just assumed no since it has been asked several times on these boards and the answer was no everytime.

Master Jedi · Post by **Master Jedi** » Wed Jan 22, 2003 6:28 pm

aclauser wrote:We are talking the yellow highlight color right? Okay you learn something new everday, I just assumed no since it has been asked several times on these boards and the answer was no everytime.

Highlight color OR buddy names...it doesn't matter, same method.

Plasma2002b · Post by **Plasma2002b** » Wed Jan 22, 2003 9:45 pm

im gonna try messin around in that... seein what i find

Master Jedi · Post by **Master Jedi** » Wed Jan 22, 2003 10:36 pm

Plasma2002b wrote:im gonna try messin around in that... seein what i find

I used the same thing to skin the Windows 2000 start menu a while ago!

P.S. Congrats on the new rank

buster · Post by **buster** » Thu Jan 23, 2003 9:19 pm

the class name is '_Oscar_Tree'<<parent windows class name '_Oscar_TabGroup' <<parent window's class name '_Oscar_BuddyListWin'

this might be confusing to people ... thats 4.8 and lower just to tell you

buster · Post by **buster** » Thu Jan 23, 2003 9:22 pm

i would probebly contact synthesize, hes great with vb. i saw somewhere on his site to mail him and give him suggestions for progs. he helped me with allot of stuff http://sybvb.com <sorry if its considered spam

gouki1891 · Post by **gouki1891** » Wed Jan 29, 2003 12:21 am

anything that a normal user would understand?

Anthony · Post by **Anthony** » Wed Jan 29, 2003 9:52 am

Depends on what you consider normal. If you don't know how to program then I don't think so.

punkster103 · Post by **punkster103** » Wed Jan 29, 2003 3:11 pm

If anyone who has VB6 would could post a finished product of some sort, then it would be something a normal user could understand.

exstasy · Post by **exstasy** » Sun Feb 09, 2003 5:01 pm

could anyone whip up some code for this?

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changing the color of buddies in the buddy list

changing the color of buddies in the buddy list

Re: changing the color of buddies in the buddy list

in simpler terms?

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