123 Flash Chat is skinable. The skins are stored in the folder: <123FlashChatServer5.0 installed directory>/client/skin
To assign a default skin from available skin collection to all the users in chat room, 123 Flash Chat admin has two choices:
- configuring client.xml, or
- editing html code
1. Configure client.xml:
With a text-editing tool like notepad, you can configure client.xml in this directory: <123flashchat 5.0 installed directory>/client/client.xml.
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Replace the "standard" with a specific skin name, save and upload it to the directory: <123flashchat 5.0 installed directory>/client/client.xml.
2. Edit html code:
As we stated in the quickstart.html, 123 Flash Chat is inserted into your webpage with some html code like:
You can insert the html code into a static or dynamic webpage, in the latter case, you can dynamically control interface skin by adding parameter in the html code, like this:
You can see classic skin is enabled by default.
Skin setting in html code has higher priority than the skin setting in client.xml. ie: once skin is defined in html code, the skin setting in client.xml becomes useless.
Available skins.
Following nine skins are available in current version, you can modify any skin or add your own based on them:
1) standard - Aqua blue skin. scalable vector skin.
2) beige - Aqua beige skin. scalable vector skin.
3) angel - Black metallic bitmap skin. kinda cool.
4) hawaii - Aqua black skin. scalable vector skin.
5) classic - Blue bitmap skin.
6) green - Green skin. scalable vector skin.
7) red - Red& black skin. scalable vector skin.
8) orange - Orange skin. scalable vector skin.
9) clean - Aqua blue & gray skin. scalable vector skin.
Click here to check all the skins online!
Make new skin.
You can design your own skin, without the flash source code, please refer to: http://www.123flashchat.com/colormap.htm.If you need original source code for skin files( please bare in mind we only offer it to 123 Flash Chat license buyer.) please write to support@123flashchat.com to request it.
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, while GIF or PNG is not accepted. If you don't mind the background, you can save it to jpg format (non progressive mode).
If you'd like transparent background, please save it to png or gif and import it to flash to convert it to a swf file without background. You are welcome to share your skin design with all of the users of 123 Flash Chat in our forum showcase or official skin showcase, we'll appreciate it.
If you want us to design a skin for you, you can place order at this page, and please drop an email with details of the skin you want to support@123flashchat.com. Thank you.
