Modifying skins?

First open the frame-message.xml file in the classic version of the skinXMLWindows (I believe change it changes all the skin’s themes). Go to line 300ish, which looks like this:

OK, first comment out the first tag and the tag using , so that only the middle third of the code is still intact. Now change the num in from 63 to 3, and in from 43 to 5.

The next stage is to update the draggable splitter you use to resize the edit box to account for these changes. The code for it can be found earlier in the same file, round about line 150:

First change num in from -38 to 0 and in from 42 to 4. This will move the splitter back to somewhere you can actually get it, but the minimum size for the edit box is still huge. Change the tags like so:

Of course, your choice of default may be different, you might like to experiment a little. Once you resize the edit box in a particular message window that setting will be remembered for that buddy, but to reset all windows’ skin settings to the default you can delete trillianusers.ini.

Hope this helps! Post back if you have any problems following or getting it to work.

Sorry, I don’t know how to do either of those. Your best bet might be posting in the Skin Dev forums in the official Trillian boards.

The initial window size can be set in prefs->windows->initial.

It’s pretty easy to do it in the XML as well, if you’d prefer.

As for the sidebar thingy, is it an anchor (drag it out and in), or a phase (click and it disappears). Both are very simple changes.