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This article describes the changes which have recently been made to the message log system in tabSRMM and which may be of interest for the users.

These changes will be fully available with the next tabSRMM release (most likely, the next Miranda nightly build).

Note that, especially the auto-bidi mode, may require that you update your configuration. You definately should reset your RTL template set (see below) to make it compatible with the auto-bidi operation.

The template documentation has been updated aswell and the new version is now "available":http://miranda.or.at/tabsrmm-articles/tabsrmm-message-log-templates/

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Today, I made the decision to outsource the skin editor for clist_nicer+ and make it an extra plugin.

That means, the old Background+ page will soon vanish from clist_nicer+ and a new dialog will be added to the customize section when the skin editor plugin is loaded.

The reasons are quite simple: Since clist_nicer+ and tabSRMM share roughly the same skinning engine (+ skin file format), the skin editor can later be used for both plugins. Also, as an extra plugin it can save memory and other resources for people who don't want to edit skins but only want to load existing ones.

It also means, that I'll probably improve the skin editor with some features for editing image items and give it a better, more user-friendly user interface than it currently has (that Background+ page is really ugly and overloaded with UI elements now and badly needs some improvements...)

[thumb:7:l:l=d]With the addition of 2 features to the skinning engine, it is now fairly complete and only needs some polishing until it will be published.

A new skin item is available which can be used to skin the border of any avatar on the list. This can by a 32bit png image with per-pixel transparency, and will just be painted "over" the avatar - so there are some nice effects possible - it can be used to colorize the avatars or to give them a nice border.

The scroll bar is now skinnable.

Skinnable and freely placeable buttons have been added.

The screenshot should illustrate it well enough

A release including a sample skin should be available soon