How to Create Skin?

Createing skin by steps:

1. Create images (*.bmp)
2. Move images to one directory
3. Start "skinbuilder.exe".
4. Set VERSION section

   Properties

   Name	Description
   skinname	Name of skin
   skinauthor	Author name
   authoremail	Author e-mail
   authorurl	Author URL
   skincomments	Your comments

   
   
5. Set PICTURES section

   Properties

   Name	Description
   picture	image of the form
   mask	region mask
   inactivepciture	inactive image of the form

    Add pictures for objects and controls:

   (a). click on button "+" to add picture with special dialog and then in listbox component you can see name of picture;

   (b). click on button "-" to delete selected picture

6. Set FORMINFO section

   Properties

   Name	Description
   lefttoppoint, righttoppoint, leftbottompoint, rightbottompoint	This points define image of form corners in picture. if lefttoppoint = Point(0, 0) and rightbottompoint = Point(0, 0) then form can not be resized and scaled. pic.1.
   clientrect	Client area of form. This rect define client area image (see in pic.1.).
   captionrect	Area for caption buttons. Caption-object (width of object) and buttons located concerning left, top, and right values.
   buttonsoffset	Offset between caption buttons
   buttonsrect	Static area for caption buttons
   buttonsinleft	If True then buttons located in left of captionrect
   bgpictureindex	Index of background picture
   maskrectarea	This is rectangle-area in mask.
   hittestlefttoppoint, hittestrighttoppoint, hittestleftbottompoint, hittestrightbottompoint	This points define corners for hit-test procedure.
   borderwidth	Width of border
   autorenderinginactiveimage	If true then form have real time rendering inactive image with effect
   inactiveeffect	Inactive effect

   
   

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