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Trillian Basic only supports buddy icons for AIM. Trillian Pro supports buddy icons for MSN and AIM, but NOT Yahoo.
There’s no option to turn buddy icons in the contact list on/off, it should just work. It should even work with skins that don’t have buddy icons in message windows, in fact.
btw this feature isn’t available on basic
If you post any questions you have here I’ll try to answer them, but to be honest you might get even better response on the official plugin dev boards (needs login). The sample plugin on trillian’s website is useful, and the API is there too, but most of the resources for developers are on the trillian boards.
Quote:quote:Originally posted by BrianFrom what I can remember is when I would install Trillian skins, all I did was to drag the skin into the skins folder. Not needing WinZip to do the work for me.
Perhaps you used the zip folders built into windows ME/XP, or it was a .tsz and you’re using Trillian Pro 2. However, most skins still require you to unzip them and copy them to the skins folder, like Spike says.
Yep, despite having yahoo webcam support for ages, trillian still doesn’t have voice chat. And you are correct, webcam in trillian only works with yahoo, not MSN.
As spike says, (i) is correct.
(ii) is not correct, it should clear automatically when you read the email, although it can be a bit unreliable.
(iii) and (iv) are definitely not correct, at least in theory. If you’ve found different then I guess you happen to be lucky/unlucky (depending on what feature it is). I don’t use yahoo much, certainly not with trillian basic, so I don’t know how reliable it is with these.
Actually there are a couple of skins that support “sound packs”, which are much easier to change to, and Whistler happens to be one of them. First you have to find and install a sound pack; this is the tricky part, you’ll have to search the trillian forums to get that to work. Next up go to prefs->skins and click the advanced button… you’ll find the sound pack combobox there.
Assuming you mean buddy icons, they’re stored in your user profile folder (normally c:program filestrillianusersdefault) in a subfolder called buddyicons. You’ll need to copy them and rename them to the correct format i.e. normally something.gif.
Go to prefs -> windows -> colors. Down the right hand side there is a column of checkboxes to the right of the font options, labelled “send with message”. Just check whichever type of font info you want to be sent with your message.
I’ve heard good things about Winbot – it’s self contained, so you don’t need to be running an IRC client while it’s open.
If you want a bot that runs as part of your client, as shifter says it depends on what the client is. Trillian has some of these features built in, but its scripting is so shaky that what isn’t there can’t really be added. mIRC on the other hand has countless scripts available to it (use google to find them).
Gaim is for windows as well as linux, although the windows version is quite bloated and buggy in my experience.
For this sort of system the obvious choice would be miranda. It’s a little more difficult to set up than trillian or gaim, but it’s extremely lightweight and you can remove anything you don’t need from it because it’s entirely plugin-based.
Heh, whenever I’m at uni with my permanent connection, I’m on all day too (even if I’m not physically in front of the computer). Things are a bit different when I’m at home with my crappy modem though 🙁
