How to customize chat skin

Brief introduction:

All sets of skins are stored under the directory:

<123flashchat installed directory>/client/skin/.

By default we offer 9 sets of skins. You can modify any skin or add

your own based on the pre-existing skins.

Skin components are controlled by skin.xml.

Color style can be adjusted by color.xml.

Only SWF or JPG image file can be used to construct a skin.

GIF or PNG files will not work.

If you like the opaque background, you can save it as a jpg file (non progressive mode). If you would prefer a transparent background, please save it as a png or gif file and import it to flash to convert it to a swf file without the background.

Client FLA files are not necessary to design a skin.

Below are some tutorials which might be helpful for designers:

a) HowTo customize skin? http://www.123flashchat.com/howtoskin.html

b) HowTo change skin color? http://www.123flashchat.com/colormap.html

c) HowTo customize background? http://www.123flashchat.com/howto_change_bkground.html

Change background

Every skin offers background pictures in the chat area.

You can also create your own jpg or swf backgrounds and put them into the skin folder. New backgrounds should be in the dimensions within the basic background. The graphics for the new background will be added above the basic background. (We suggest you double click the background alternative in the download pack to get a better picture of how it should look like.)

To offer more backgrounds for users to select, please edit skin.xml,

Find the following section:

<SKIN_BKGROUND><BKGROUND name="Standard" value="bkground.swf" /></SKIN_BKGROUND>

Then add a new line in this format. "name" is for users to pick from. "value" is the filename of the background that you have created.

updated at 2008-2-28