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Topic controls are used all over the place for numerous things, so have a lot of options and preferences to make them very customizable. In basic terms, they are text areas, some with defined text for labels others with formatting information for displayed information such as the topic in an irc channel.

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[edit] Basic Code

The basic layout is this:

<control name="name" type="topic">
	<font preferences/>
	<forecolor red="0" green="0" blue="0"/>
	<backcolor red="0" green="0" blue="0"/>
	<settings preferences/>
</control>

These are not all necessary. The only ones that have to be there are the font and forecolor.

[edit] font

this has a few options (use in the form <option>="<value>")

Option Description
source Name of fonts file, if value "fontfile" is used, it will use whatever font trillian is set to use
type The font
size The size of font
bold Boolean value of 1 to make text bold no point using 0 just dont put it in :)
italics Same as bold
underline Same as bold (may not work everywhere.)

[edit] Forecolor

forecolor is the colour for the text - simple as that (See RGB )

[edit] Backcolor

backcolor is the colour of the area behind the text, if this is not put in, Trillian will make the background transparent.

[edit] Settings

settings can only have one option and one value, for more options, the <settings name="" value=""/> should be repeated

Name Description
auto-scroll Only needed if a value of "no" is required - defines whether the text will scroll from side to side
alignment Left/Right/Center
vertical-alignment Top/Center/Bottom
default-text value="text you want to appear" - used for a label

You should probably use Trillian's language packs for the default-texts if your skin is for Trillian 2.0+.


MainRegion code is available

Some skins have the following line:

[edit] Cursor

<cursor name="main" type="<type>"/> 

The cursor <type> can be: minimize, close, maximize, arrow, add and others which I dont know, it is irrelevent, as it doesn't do anything, and never will - it was there as a planned addition that never got added.

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