Installation

Requirements

Miranda Instant Messenger [download]
IEView v 1.1.0.0 [download]
Windows Internet Explorer 7
Adobe Flash Player Plugin 9 [download]
Microsoft .NET framework 2.0 (required to run themer)

Installation

Download and unpack the archive.
Themes are placed in "<extracted archive>\themes" folder. You can create your own theme using themer. (To create your own theme see the creating a theme section.)
Open Miranda IM Options and go to section "Message Sessions --> IEView"
Select the "Message Log" tab and check the "Use Templates" radio button. Click the button right to the textbox and select a one of theme directories. The default directories are named by colors.
Select and open one of those 3 files
- jsCayw.ivt - Avatars will always be shown.
- jsCayw_noAvatars.ivt - Avatars will never be shown.
- jsCayw_avatarOnDemand.ivt - Avatar will be shown only if the contact has one.
Click Apply.

Usage

Playing YouTube videos

If someone sends you (or you send him) an url pointing to YouTube video you don't have to open it in your browser. You can play that video in the message window.

Click on the bold text next to the hyperlink. Like shown on the image below.
After the video appears, click the play button. (If you see just a white box, wait until the player loads.)
You can close the video by clicking the bold text again.

If you have some troubles with playing the videos, check if you meet all the requirements described in the installation section.

Viewing images

This is done the same way like playing YouTube videos.

Creating a theme

Open themer directory from the extracted archive and run themer.exe. (You need MS .NET Framework 2.0 to be able to run the themer.)
Select an item you want to style from the dropdown list.
Change the colors to whatever you like. You can click the colored rectangle to view color chooser. Or you can enter those colors manually using a hex string.
Fine tune the title using the title gradient effects. Each value stands for a difference between the top and the bottom of the title background color. If you increase e.g. lightness, the top of the title will be brighter and the bottom will be darker. You can achieve metal effect if the lightness value is higher then 0, or gel effect if the value is lower.
Style the other items. When you're done, switch to the Global styles tab.
You can adjust the background color and text used to view or hide images/videos. Then click the refresh preview button to refresh the preview bellow. The preview looks and behaves exactly like IEView in Miranda. (To see the images and videos you need to allow the themer to connect to the internet.)
If you're satisfied with the result switch to the export tab, select a directory you like and click the export button.
Theme files (jsCayw.ivt, ...) will now be placed in the directory you've selected. The theme is now finished and all you need to do is to load it by Miranda using the same procedure like in steps 3-6 in the installation section.