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Flex Skinning and Adobe Illustrator

I'm developing a skin for Flex 3 using Adobe Illustrator and I've just ran into a problem. I've designed a larger scrollBar skin to be used in a touch screen application but Flex seems to apply the default sizes regardless of the size of the symbol in the generated .swf. I could achieve the correct effect with .png but I'd like to know i...

Using Webkit to create Skinable custom windows on OSX

There are tutorials for using a webkit view inside a cocoa application to achieve skinnable contents, but what would I do if I wanted to use webkit to create custom, skinnable windows? Examples would be dashboard widgets, or BowTie Beware, I'm a noob. ...

Blackberry User Interface Design - Customizable UI?

I am trying to design a Blackberry Application and I am wondering if there are any resources on how to create custom user interface elements, skin existing ones and what other possibilities are there? I have developed a few iPhone applications with custom UI and stuff, so not sure what BB world offers in terms of UI development. Any ti...

Themes bad, skins good?

Hi I found few posts where people were basically complaining about themes and at the same time thought skins were useful: a) But aren’t skins only used in combination with themes, thus isn’t a skin inseparable part of a theme? b) So why are skins considered useful, while themes not so much? Thanx ...

Pros and cons of having CSS as part of a theme

What are some pros/cons in using CSS as part of a theme instead of manually supplying <link> tag in the <head> section of a web page? ...

Creating ASP.NET composite control. How to apply properties associated with SkinID?

I am creating a custom composite control based off of an asp:Label control. I'd like to be able to have the label's default properties be skinable as well as additional properties that I add to my control. But when I add a skin definition to the Default.skin file in my themes directory, and add the control to my page with the SkinId sp...

DNN 5.0 skin creation help

Can anyone shine some light on DNN 5.0 skin creation?Like a simple tutorial? ...

master skin file in ASP.NET

My project has multiple themes with different colors. I need to skin certain textboxes with a specific font/size/etc.[no color difference] Currently, I add <asp:TextBox SkinID="skinned" runat="server".../> to all .skin files under each theme. Is there a way to put this textbox skin in one place, like a master skin? ...

Button image skins scaled incorrectly sometimes with dynamic CSS loading

I'm having a problem where buttons with image skins are being scaled incorrectly the first time they load. The CSS is being loaded dynamically (as a .swf), and in it, I skin some buttons like this: Button.myButton { disabledSkin: Embed(source='assets/images/chat_button_close.png'); overSkin: Embed(source='assets/images/chat_but...

Flash Cs4 components skinning / themes ?

is there a way to apply custom skin / theme on components in flash Cs4. I remembeer I could edit them in flash 8 as2, but in flash cs4 they just an objects. without option to edit "content" of them. ...

How do i customize the skin of CKEditor 3.0 (their docs are complicated)

How can i customize the skin for CKEditor 3.0 I downloaded a new skin and i have this js powering it at the moment: CKEDITOR.replace( 'pageBody', { toolbar : [ ['Format'], ['Bold', 'Italic', '-', 'NumberedList', 'BulletedList', '-', 'Link', '-', 'About'] ], }); I hope its simple ...

Skin Library for .NET with Mono support

Hello everybody, Please suggest the skin control library .NET for WinForms (with good community, well written, well tested, fast). Another requirement is it should works for Mono. -- Best Regards, Murat ...

Delphi - how to skin a form

hi all I just finish reading delphi-skinning-libraries and sptbxtoolbar-skin-change but this is not what I wanted. I'm interested in how to apply a skin on a form, just like the classic WinAmp windows :) Any aricle or code or ideea is welcomed. I just found Windows XP Theme Manager, i'm at work now, so i'll study it at home (I hope thi...

Skinning java applications?

Hi, does anybody know a way to "skin" java applications. (Like Winamp skins, or skins for MirandaIM)? I don't want to create my own look and feel. ^^ ...

Difference between skin and CSS in Flex

Hi, I am new in Flex. Was just wondering what is the difference between skin and CSS?? Why it is better to use skin over CSS in Flex. Could anybody please clear my doubt. Thanks!!! ...

Scrollbar skininng problem

I'm skinning scrollbar in my flex app and got one problem. This white square between scrollbars(view the image) ruibs all my design and i need to disable it, make it invisible, change it background color, alpha or smth like this. I can paste some code here but i think there is no need in it. Working in Flex 3. any ideas? ...

Is there a way to get a real skin for my Windows Mobile Emulator

I am developing using the Symbol/Motorola MC70. I use the emulator that comes with Visual Studio and the SDK for much of my development. The standard skin for that is a simple windows mobile device. Is there a way to get the skin for the MC70 for the emulator? ...

ASP.NET CommandField & skin

Hi. I'm tying to skin ASP.NET GridView CommandField. Everything si working fine, just when I move CommandField property declarations from page to skin file, the whole commandField properties are ignored. here is my skin file: <asp:GridView AllowPaging="true" AllowSorting="false" AutoGenerateEditButton="false" AutoGenerateDeleteB...

how can i add concept of theme or skin to iPhone application

how can i add concept of theme or skin to iPhone application ? my app will download themes from location upon purchase and then it will be applicable to apply that theme to application .. does apple support any such thing? ...

How to customize the top status bar in an Android app?

Specifically I want to change the text and background colors. Is it possible to change the colors of the 'animated progress wheel' too? Can I use a theme to do this? Can anyone point me to an example theme I can look at? ...