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Old August 20th, 2005
DannyElfman1058 DannyElfman1058 is offline
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Lol. ultracross thanks for trying, but we don't need a ref here. Also, I never doubted his knowledge about LimeWire, I merely stated he had no courtesy and didn't respect others because he wasn't near to being a decent human being. Also, you say I "kinda" apologized, and for the record, I didn't. I was just being a smart aleck. Any way Grandpa came up with the goods I was looking for in the first place, however a little too late. I had already searched around here for some answers and surprisingly enough, found em. I am grateful though. Despite all this, Grandpa, I didn't mean anything by it, no hard feelings? (There's your apology) Please, let's be friends...


Moving on to business, found a little program designed by a guy in these forums, zimdale, to customize skins. Figured it all out just fine, yet there isn't really a place to find out how to. If you don't have a program to make the theme's file type you're kind of hosed, unless you do my uber sneaky/hacker type work. It is kind of long especially for something this simple, but hey, we have to keep in mind all those newbies out there. You never know what to expect. First, open up windows explorer, and then do a search. Search, "Theme.txt" This should bring up txt files for all the Skins you have one your PC. Download this program.

http://www.gnutellaforums.com/attach...&postid=131395

It will open up to the folder that this program was downloaded to. I now would recommend you copy and paste the shortcut because it is a bitch to find. Start the program, click "File" and then Hex Color finder. Play with the three primary colors to make countless variations of pretty much any color you can imagine. In the color finder, there will be a box saying, "Hex #" here will be the "code" for the color you wish to use. Copy that by high lighting the code, and pressing "ctrl" and "c" at the same time. Close the color finder out and paste the code in the box you wish to use it for. Do this by pressing "ctrl" "v" at the same time. Play around with combinations of colors and fill all the boxes necessary. When finished, click File once more and then "Compile into Text." It will then ask you to click an icon saying "Compile" ( I know, kind of redundant ) There will then be a long list of code names and stuff you need not know about. Just copy all the letters from "PRIMARY1_COLOR=#" on down. Then go back to the search you did at the beginning of this guide. Find a LimeWire theme you know you will NEVER use. When this is done, you cannot go back. Double click and it will open up the text file. Highlight everything from "PRIMARY1_COLOR=#" on down and then copy the text from your custom design skin program. Click File, and then save your progress. Go into LimeWire, and open the Theme that you just altered. It will be your new custom skin. Although you cannot change Loading boxes or other images throughout the skin, the color scheme is your own. You can do this as many times as you want to get it down perfect.

Tell me if anything needs changing and I'll be glad to oblige.

Last edited by DannyElfman1058; August 20th, 2005 at 12:23 AM.
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