There are a lot of samples around showing how to skin WPF applications using DynamicResources and ResourceDictionaries loaded dynamically from .xaml files. My problem is that my skins use images and I would like to include the style definitions and the images in a single file, so that a user only needs to download this. Any ideas how t...
Specifically, I want to know how the music player Muziic is skinnable. Is it just image boxes in a panel that change depending on what the XML in the skin says? And how would I do something like this in C# or C++? ...
Hi, is there any way to change skinId in codeBehind? I tried it during setting other property, but it's not working. The skin is not applied. public GlobalImageButtonType Skin { get { return _skin; } set { _skin = value; this.SkinID = _skin.ToString(); this.CommandName = _skin.ToString(); ...
Just like using CSS for Web applications, can we use graphics from clip art to skin buttons, edits, and form components without dealing with TCanvas or developing new components? Are there any fully free libraries to work with existing components? (No 3rd-party TSkinnedEdit etc.) ...
I am going to use a HSlider to set a range of values. I would like the left thumb to look like ( and the right thumb to lok like ) so they appear to encompass the range like (range) instead of |range|. I only know how to set the skin for SliderThumb which will set the skin for both. Does anyone know of a way to set a different skin for e...
I'm using multiple ResourceDictionarys to enable skinning in my WPF application. I have a button that's using WPF Toolkit's VisualStateManager to animate state changes. Great! Now, when the button is pressed, the style changes by loading a different ResourceDictionary. Now the problem comes when the button's Storyboard for transitioning...
I am familiar with CSS techniques to replace text with an image. For example, here are 9 of them: http://css-tricks.com/nine-techniques-for-css-image-replacement/ Are there any techniques for replacing images? Is there anyway to set the background of an image to an image and then hide or move the foreground of the image (the image src e...
How can I avoid Visual Studio designer errors when a WPF resource is defined in separate project? I have three projects in a composite WPF application: the main application, an "infrastructure" library, and a "module" library. The main application references the other projects via their output DLLs (the projects are not located in a sin...
We need to create Adobe Air application in quick time with lot of emphasis on cool UI effects. We thought of using UI components, skins by a third party due to time limitations. Can anyone direct me to good places. I've only found ScaleNine which is close to our expected standard. ...
I have an external CSS file which defines the style for the Button tag. Button {fontSize 11; blah...} I'm trying to override this style for the buttons of a ToggleButtonBar: <mx:ToggleButtonBar dataProvider="{pm.portalNavigation}" fontSize="16" /> Unfortunately, this doesn't seem to work. The fontSize stays at 11. How can I over...
Does anyone know of a handy master reference list of all the various CSS properties available for skinning Flex? Basically a single reference of all the style properties and their definitions and usage examples in skinning. Stuff like close-button-up-skin: Embed("assets/buttons/close.png"); close-button-over-skin: Embed("assets/butt...
I'm interested in information about changing ELMAH's UI. I know its possible, either through the ErrorLogPageFactory (not much info about it out there) or by rolling your own. In short, I'm interested in the built-in facilities of ELMAH for skinning the report UI. Secondary is how to use ELMAH's API to roll your own UI (rather than th...
Does anyone have a example of how I would go about making a YUI Autocomplete combined with a YUI button component look like a standard dropdown. The combobox example on the YUI developer site is a start, but I can't seem to get the button sized to the input box or eliminate the space between the input box and the button. http://develop...
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. ...
I'm currently in the process of developing an ASP.NET WebForms application that will have multiple skins. The way I'm thinking of approaching this is to have each skin in a completely separate folder, which will contain all images and CSS, and the CSS will reference images accordingly. The folder structure would be something like this:...
I have never made a blog before. I am proficient with html and css. I know there are many blog services like "blogger" and "word press" etc where you can make a blog and even pick from skins. Can anyone suggestions on where I can find information for a total beginner on how to use one of these services as the back end for updating my...
A long shot but here's hoping someone has some experience coding PHP hooks for Invisions Power Board forum. I'm attempting to code a status addition and the PHP works fine on it's own, it's the passing of the IPB's reference to my hook that is the issue. I.E. You setup a custom field in your forum for MSN Username, then from within a s...
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...
I'm building a WinForms application, and I'm using specific colors on most controls. I do that sometimes from the WinForms designer, and sometimes directly into my code. I got a static class somewhere looking like that : public static class MyColors { public static Color DarkGreen = Color.FromArgb(0, 70, 62); ... ...
HI, all I'm looking simply approach to prevent scale thumb within flex scrollbar' According to our wireframes we should display scrollbar without up-down arrows and cycle (without scale) as a thumb; ...