iChadium skin background

[erica63]

Hi,

I am using the iChadium skin (I want my Adium to look as much like iChat as possible).

I can change the background color of incoming message bubbles but not my own. I tried changing my text background color but all it did was change give my text a background color to those i was sending it to and did not make my bubble color change.

Anyone know how to fix this? I'm having many issues with the colors right now. Thanks!

[zaudragon]

Second time in a week.

Would lock this thread, but not a mod in this forum…

The author of both iChadium and iChat clone didn’t bother to programme this. I should fix that sometime, eh?

[andru_911]

ya i can't even get the random part to work...
although zaudragon and son son of a preacher man helped me snazz it up a bit by adding the trans black header...
would love a fix to this too!

[zaudragon]

ya i can't even get the random part to work...
although zaudragon and son son of a preacher man helped me snazz it up a bit by adding the trans black header...
would love a fix to this too!

I have no recollection of that incident.

[andru_911]

ya i can't even get the random part to work...
although zaudragon and son son of a preacher man helped me snazz it up a bit by adding the trans black header...
would love a fix to this too!

I have no recollection of that incident.

perhaps it was just son of a preacher man then (shrugs)

[zaudragon]

OK Back to iChadium:

The author did add support for text backgrounds. But he left the variants. If you duplicate an existing variant, and delete its contents except for the @import line, it should work.

[MBHockey]

...I want my Adium to look as much like iChat as possible...

Have you tried Metal Adium?

[erica63]

OK Back to iChadium:

The author did add support for text backgrounds. But he left the variants. If you duplicate an existing variant, and delete its contents except for the @import line, it should work.

I'm sorry, I don't know what that means... how do you do it? (apologize, not familiar yet with the terms!)

[zaudragon]

OK Back to iChadium:

The author did add support for text backgrounds. But he left the variants. If you duplicate an existing variant, and delete its contents except for the @import line, it should work.

I'm sorry, I don't know what that means... how do you do it? (apologize, not familiar yet with the terms!)

1. Make a new document in TextEdit.
2. Press command+shift+T to make it a Plain Text file.
3. Do “Show Package Contents” on iChadium.AdiumMessageStyle
4. Navigate to Contents -> Resources -> Variants.
5. Open any of them in TextEdit.
6. Copy the first line that starts with “@import” into the Untitled document made in step 1.
7. Save the Untitled Document, and name it anything you want, except with a “.css” suffix.
8. Move the saved document to iChadium.AdiumMessageStyle -> Contents -> Resources -> Variants
9. Restart Adium.
10. Go to the Messages preferences and select the new variant.

That *should* work in theory.

[adm58]

OK Back to iChadium:

The author did add support for text backgrounds. But he left the variants. If you duplicate an existing variant, and delete its contents except for the @import line, it should work.

I'm sorry, I don't know what that means... how do you do it? (apologize, not familiar yet with the terms!)

1. Make a new document in TextEdit.
2. Press command+shift+T to make it a Plain Text file.
3. Do “Show Package Contents” on iChadium.AdiumMessageStyle
4. Navigate to Contents -> Resources -> Variants.
5. Open any of them in TextEdit.
6. Copy the first line that starts with “@import” into the Untitled document made in step 1.
7. Save the Untitled Document, and name it anything you want, except with a “.css” suffix.
8. Move the saved document to iChadium.AdiumMessageStyle -> Contents -> Resources -> Variants
9. Restart Adium.
10. Go to the Messages preferences and select the new variant.

That *should* work in theory.

That didn't do anything for me.

I tried doing a variant where I used an RGB value for the msgIn and msgOut background colors. While the outgoing color would always be what I specified, the incoming color would be random. I suspect this has something to do with the Incoming Shuffle thing but I can't figure it out.

Update: I think opening the Info.plist and changing AllowTextColors to No seems to have fixed this? Sorry I am new to messing with message styles.

[adm58]

I've got a mod of iChadium ready that does not use the font panel to set the bubble background. It uses variants with pre-defined bubble colors for both the incoming and outgoing bubbles. I think this is how some folks are wanting this message style to work (including myself).

I'm just waiting for permission from the author before I share the mod on the forum. I could also post it to Xtras if he is okay with that.

[adm58]

Just wanted to post and tell anyone who was interested in the mod I did that I haven't heard anything from the author. So.... yeah.