Miranda To Proteus Mod, how to get miranda to look proteus-like

Article by holden

Hey guys, how's it going? Well after much work today, miranda's kinda looking like Proteus.Click here to see the screenshot

How to do it:

-First off download tabSRMM 0.0.8 here and put it in your Miranda\Plugins folder..

-Now download tabsrmm_unicodel.dll and place it in your Miranda\Plugins folder.

-Next off, download SmileyAdd plugin and put it in your Miranda\Plugins folder.

-Download Proteus.msl and Proteus.dll Put them both in your Miranda\Smileys folder.

-Now open up Miranda, go to Options->Events->Smileys and in the field "Smiley Library" browse for the "Proteus.msl" file in your Miranda\Smileys folder.

-Go to Options->Contact List->List and set "Ident groups by:" 15 pixels.

-Go to Options->Events and make sure only the following options are checked in the following fields:
Message containers: Hide tab bar if there is only one tab, Enable popups if minimized, Show contacts name, Show container name in title bar -> Never.
Message tabs: Limit nicknames on tab to 15 characters, Hide status bar, Use flat buttons.
Messaging Log: Show names, indent events: 5 pixels, Ignore per-contact log settings, Load unread events only. Also, change the font and message background color here.

-Next download some nice icons for Miranda. Download these and exchange them with your current Miranda icons in Options->Contact List->Icons. I'm not gonna explain how to do that, since it's pretty straight foward. Note: The icons in this iconpack are in PNG format, you need to convert them to ICO format using an appropriate application. Iconworkshop does the work well, and so does Ave's application.

-Now download the Contact List background. I suggest saving it to your miranda folder and keeping it there.

-Go to Options->Contact List->List Background and select the file you just downloaded (background_tiny.jpg). Make sure just the following options are checked: Use background bitmap, Stretch to width, Tile vertically, Scroll with text.

-Go to Options->Contact List->List Text and set the font to Arial, size 14 and bold. Set row height to 22.

-Now for the hassle. Open up Proteus.msl in a text editor (I recommend notepad) and check the last entries. Those entries tell Miranda which text strings will be replaced by emoticons. Change the values I use for the ones you want to use. For example if you nickname in MSN is Mike, change the value
Smiley = ".\Proteus.dll", -128, "David: " to
Smiley = ".\Proteus.dll", -128, "Mike: "
Please note that the negative number (-128) indicates which image from the Proteus.dll file will be used. Please open up Proteus.dll with reshacker or whatever and check out the available avatars and icons, feel free to use whichever you want by replacing the numbers on the Proteus.msl file with the icons you desire to use.

-That's pretty much it I guess. You can mod it a little further, set the messages background to silver or something, or the font, but that's straight foward. I hope you find this helpful.

NOTE! For some people, the tabSRMM dll file is called tabsrmm_unicode.dll not tabsrmm_unicodel.dll. Please change the name of the modded file before replacing if this is your case.

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