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Skinning Forms and controls -

Hi all,

I am playing around with Active Skin, which makes it very easy to apply ready made skins to forms, including buttons, frames etc.

One problem is that not all controls are supported, just those the author has made a skin for.

Is it possible to write a procedure that would loop through all controls to apply skins ?

I would particularly like to skin the SSTab strip and a DataGrid which are not included in a standard skin.

Failing that...does anyone know had to add these controls and skin them using the Active Skin Builder ?

Cheers

Jack

 

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