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Active Skin Control -

Hi - ive started using Active Skin to improve the look of my VB apps.

I've found a problem that a form with no border style is not recongised by the skin.

Any one - got any ideas - apart from changing the back colour of the form!

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Skin Functionality (Active Skin) -
Active Skin uses *.skn type files to load the skins into the Active Skin control. If i wanted to make an app which allowed the download of future skins (like winamp), would it be possible to make them with another extension, say *.abc and they be used instead of *.skn? If you know what


Any GUI software for VB.NET -
Hey i would appreciate any help on this i really want to be able to skin my applications nicely i have active skin but i find it hard to use maybe its just me but i am not going anywhere with Active Skin it doesn't like me is there anything else else other than Active Skin that is


Active Skin Control -
Hi - ive started using Active Skin to improve the look of my VB apps. I've found a problem that a form with no border style is not recongised by the skin. Any one - got any ideas - apart from changing the back colour of the form! P


Active Skin -
I have used active skin 4.25 in my app, but now i find that when i try to use the exe on another comp, that it has an error. asking for the active skin ocx..... any help on preventing this?


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 wou


Active Skin 4.3 Tutorials -
I looked through google but couldnt find much to help me. Basically im a n00b to Active Skin, and i have this great skin which goes perfect into my app. Only problem is it isnt loading correctly, i reference it and everything, copied the code from a sample but it doesnt work. I woul


image box with skin -
i was wondering how can i get a image box to work with a skin(i use active skin) it works fine without the skin but with it, it dosent display the pic.


Help on making an Active Skin -
Can anyone help me on how to make your own VB skin, from photoshop to importing it to VB and making it an Active Skin?


Skin Builder -
Does anybody know how to use Active Skin 4.3 skin builder? Any tutorials would be great, there site offers diddly squat


Active Skin Registered -
Hi all, i want to register Active Skin, how do I do it by my self?


Active Skin 4.3 Skins -
Does anybody know where to find FREE skins for Active Skin 4.3? Thanks, when i search it always comes up with cracks and stuff


Active Skin - Skinning Tutorials -
ok, im not asking for "Skins" (though that would be great). What i want to know is "How do you make your own skins using Active Skin 4.3 Skin Builder)? I can draw them all myself, but theres no help or tutorials on how to put them together correctly. Any help would


Help with Active Skin -
I just downloaded ActiveSkin and I can skin the form but I can't figure out how to use skinbutton or any of the other controls. Could someone please help?...... OK, I got my label and button skinned but I'm using Object.ApplySkin SkinForm in my Form_Load(), is there a better way


more Active Skin Skins -
hi,where can i find more skins for active skin???? thnx anyway


skinning the whole form -
Does anybody know about any activex control or code that allows me the skin a form similar to NeoCaption component on http://www.vbaccelerator.com?? It should be freeware - not something like Active Skin. Any idea??


Active Skin 4.3 Again -
Anyone know where to get skins for this control. In there website it doesnt have many.


Please Help With Get / Save Settings in VB 6 -
Hello, I have created a skinnable game and my question is: how can I use the save / get settings funtion to where the skin I load will be the default skin loaded on startup? I need either an example of the save / get settings function for the skinning or a .ini function... The Sa


Skin a form -
How can i skin a form, and also skin buttons, message boxes, and other controls that can be skinned? I've heard of 'Skin Express' but i can't find any download location for it that works. p.s. What controls can i skin?


VB Active X control always runs in MS explorier -
Wrote a simple Active X pushbutton control by first selecting Active X control icon at start up. I renamed my active X project control names & put a push button on my Active X form. Then I add a standard project with a standard form to test my active x control. My Active X cont


[02/03] Forms Skin -
Hi All; I want some one have at least the base knowlege of how to use the PNG files in drawing and resizing it as a skin for VB forms in VB6 or VB.net. How can I read an image file and draw it on the form serface not in a control and how to resizi it to make the last interface of the


VB6 User Control Skin -
I'm in need of help on how to create a Skin for my Form in User Control im not sure on how its done thats why im looking for either someone to point me to a tutorial (I have looked all over the net and all i can find is vbSkinner which is a .ocx file but i want to make my own).. Can so


How to create an active x control -
hi, My boss wanted me to make an active x control for connecting/opening an excel file through the web. It will not use any form, so maybe just a class or something. So If I click the print button in my web application, if the active x control is not yet installed, the user wil


Active Skin 4.0 -
Hey all, I just downloaded the new activeskin 4 and it is absolutly AWESOME!!! Only one thing kind of makes me mad. Their label control doesn't support centering and left justifying. Does anyone know how I can center their labels??


How do I skin an app -
Hey all. I have made a login program. How do I skin it. The attachment is what I want the application to look like. Think of how to skin every aspect that you see in the graphic. That's textbox's and command buttons. How would I skin these? I am looking for two ways. How to apply th


No C++ Gurus around here -
I have a Window class and a Skin template. The Window will call a Skin instance but in it's operation the Skin needs to access some properties of the Window, my first thought was passing a set of pointers but the Skin template is complex enough for the implementation process to be anno


Is there a free skin control -
I have googled a lot and still cant seem to find a free skin control, i'm sure there must be one somewhere. Any ideas ?


Change picture of form with Timer -
Private Sub Timer1_Timer() Skin = Skin + 1 Question.Refresh If Skin = 0 Then Form1.Picture = "C:\My Documents\PICS4PROGS\Skin.bmp" ElseIf Skin = 1 Then Form1.Picture = "C:\My Documents\PICS4PROGS\Skin2.bmp" Else End If End Sub ^ doesnt work. is there ano


Has anyone here actually made a skin with Skin Builder -
I think this may be the most complicated piece of software I've ever tried to use, but then again, a lot of things can seem that way before you get the hang of it. I need some inspiration, has anyone here actually become skilled at building ActiveSkins with the Skin Builder?


Applying skins to embedded media player control (WMP9 SDK) -
Hi All, I am wondering if there is any way to apply a media player skin to a media player object embedded onto a form. FYI: I am using the WMP9 SDK. The reason i ask this is i want to create an equiliser for my mp3 player and the only way that i think it can be done is via skin


MediaPlayer Sking -
MediaPlayer is bundled with different skin & interface (located in Skin Subdirectory), is there away to use those different skin/intereface with VB?


Skin Express v1.0.0.0 Released! -
Windows Forms make it easy to apply a simple skin to a form, but they fall short when it comes to extended functionality. That's where Skin Express comes in. Skin Express is an affordable tool that enables Visual Studio.NET developers to easily add skins to their applications. The S


How are Skin Engines done -
I would like to make a skin engine ( just to see if i can do it ) but i dont know where to start. The only way i can think of doing this is subclass my form ( and its controls ) and on the WM_PAINT Event draw the skin images. But i instantly see problems If i subclassed a progre


call to html / asp pages from outside an activex dll -
Ello, I have just really started to learn active x dll programming with vb6. All the examples i am leaning from discuss how to do all kinds of things with vb and active x, what they do not tell you (if of course it is possible) is how to send html from previously generated files, w


skinning in vb [like activeskin] -
I used activeskin's trial version of their control for a while and although I like it, it isn't free and it is a pain to get set up. By simply giving the control a path to a skin file and the form that you want to skin's hWnd it will skin the form and all of the controls on it (all


Skinning -
Active Skin Style Skin VB Skinner All good in there own way, apart from you have to pay extraodinary amounts of cash to license them. The point is, does anybody know any good free skinning components that: Are Free! New skins can be made I have searched through Google and


Active Skin - Just the captions -
Using Active Skin 4.3 i can skin my applications, but i dont know how to apply the skin just to the caption bar. Id appreciate any help, heres how to set the skin to the form: VB Code: Skin1.LoadSkin = App.Path & "\MySkin.skn"Skin1.ApplySkin (Me.Hwnd)


Packaging Problem -
Hi I'm stuck in a great problem. I've made a Tip of the day program and have made a skin feature. Users can switch between skins. By default I've given three skins. The format is: Application Directory ...Skins Directory ......Sun Warm (Name of skin 1) .........FILE:main.jpg


Apply Skins To All Windows -
In a web browser app which makes use of the Web Browser control, users can change the skin of the browser. Similar to IE6, users can open a new browser window by navigating to the File--->New menu or right-click a link to open the link in a new page. Assume that while using a ski


Problem Redrawing on a form (Winamp Skins) -
I'm writting a skin loader class to load winamp skins. When the class is initialized the skin loads perfectly. But when I try to load another skin (ie changing skin) , the form appears White with a red cross and red borders. But I know the pictures are loaded as they are displayed when


Images stored on a dll -
This is kind of hard to explain, In my app I skin a form using images and usercontrols, what I want to know is if there is any way to store these images on a dll for each skin so they don't have to be exposed in the root directory? I need to be able to select a skin (dll) from a lis