New AIM 5.9.3672

I’m fairly new to AIM Reshacking, but removing the annoying buttons shouldn’t be too bad…

The expressions button for example:
If you open up AimRes.dll in ResHack
Go to Bitmaps and down to number 338-340(?)
(this is the part that I’m unsure of)
I know that if you go to the 1033 and right click and delete the resource bitmap, it will not appear in your instant message window.

This can be done for any of the buttons, as they are located at other bitmap locations.

Personally, I used AIM Ad Hack (http://aftermath.dyndns.org:8888/~aimadhack/) and then remove the expressions button. The Ad Hack takes care of a TON of the annoyances with options for exactly what is removed.

What I’m trying to work on now is to remove my own buddy icon from the Instant Message Window (how the hell that is useful to anyone is beyond me), and find where the Instant Message dialouge is inside the Aim files. I’ve searched for text in the Instant Message window in tons of the dll files in the AIM directory to no avail. I figure if I know where this dialouge is, then I can make it appear however I want, with the buttons where I want them.

Hope I’ve provided some insight into ResHacking and hopefully someone can help me out a little bit.

(I just started ResHacking last night when I was pissed off. I had to install the new version of AIM to send files to my friends because my old version would crash when I attempted to connect to them. Upon installing you can all see what made me so angry. Since I am so new to ResHacking, I’m not sure if completely deleting the resources from the file is the right way to go about removing buttons, but it works)

Good luck, and thanks for any help in advance.

StaticSage

Edit: I actually just compared the AimRes.dll before and after using AdHack and it appears that they replace the bitmap resource with a bitmap thats the same grey as the IM Window rather than deleting it. (To see an example of this look at Bitmap 303 before an after the Ad Hack application, it’s the games button.) I haven’t had any problems with just deleting it though. It’s also not a huge deal if you mess something up because reinstalling AIM isn’t a terriblely difficult task, especially since none of your settings are kept if you install over your previous install. I’ve also had nothing go wrong installing over AIM (as it does with some other apps) so don’t be afraid to mess around (but don’t cry to me if something does 😀 ).

Second edit:
Yeah sorry for bringing back a very old topic, I was googling and I didn’t realize this was so terribly old.