skins

What is the best way to draw skinnable "buttons" in a video game?

I'm looking for ideas on how to draw a skinnable "button" in a game application. If I use a fixed sprite non-vector image for the button background, then I can't size the button easily. If I write code to draw a resizable button (like Windows buttons are drawn), then the programmer has to get involved -- and it makes skinning difficult. ...

Where can I get Toad syntax coloring schemes?

I am a big fan of the light colors on a dark background color scheme for programming - which is unfortunately not what Quest's Toad comes with by default. I notice that it is possible to export and import settings under the language management window, and I know that Toad has a large level of community involvement. So I assume there...

Can you set a page's title via CSS or a Skin in ASP.net 2.0

I am using asp.net 2.0 I know can set the pages title via the code behind. But is it possible to set the page title using Theme, skin or css? I need to display a different title depending on the theme selected. ...

Where can I find information on getting started creating Skins for Flex/AIR?

I don't have any experience with creating Skins, but I have the tools to do it (Fireworks, etc.). I'm used to doing as much as I can with styles, but, I want to break out of the mold and start using Skins more, especially so that the look and feel of my apps can be ported to other platforms. Where do I get started? ...

Skins in delphi7

I wish to skin my aplication and have noticed that there appears to be no obvious way to do this. I am used to skinning files for java and wondered if there was any way of changing the appearance of the "standard" delphi7 application. Edit:(taggs) ...

What is the best Framework to use for developing a skinned application?

I need to develop an application for windows, and it needs to support skins. I am looking for a framework to use. I would much prefer to not use QT, because of it's licensing - GPL is not an option for me, and it is otherwise to expensive (and I can't put off developing this application till March, when QT is supposed to go LGPL). Doe...

How do I stop richfaces adding borders to panels and calendars?

I'm hoping to use a custom richfaces skin to handle the bulk of my presentation work. Unfortunately richfaces renders borders around every cell in a calendar component and around each panel. I would like to turn them off so that day numbers site in an open grid with no borders. There is no obvious way to do that using skins or attributes...

Does qt 4.5 have any skins?

Hello, I am developing for the first time using qt 4.5. I am developing a desktop app that will run on windows xp/vista. The client would like to have a skin that assemblies a softphone, or something similar. Does qt come with any skinning engine? Is it possible to create skins using qt? Many thanks, ...

Remove gradients from richfaces controls

I'd like to use the richfaces panel as its basically the right shape and is skinnable, so I can change font, colour etc. However, as part of the default skin the horizontal bar containing the header has a gradient. My design has a flat simple colour with no gradient of any kind. How do I stop richfaces adding a gradient? If possible I...

SkinID on custom control not working (asp.net)

I am deriving a control from syste.web.ui.webcontrols.button. I am then calling it buttonv2. I am then adding an arbitrary property to this new class, "int abc", accessing it via a get/set accessor that stores it's value in the viewstate (it also returns 0 if the viewstate value is null, i.e. i've tried to access it without setting it)....

Free/Paid Silverlight Video Players?

I'm looking for some nice looking silverlight video players to be used on a website. Similar to this question regarding flash: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/167072/free-paid-flash-video-players, I'm looking for some good silverlight skins. Any good resources available? I'm aware of: http://www.longtailvideo.com/players/jw-wmv-pl...

Can WPF themes be used to include multiple skins for an application that can be changed at runtime?

WPF allows a control library to provide different resource dictionaries for different system themes, essentially allowing an application to match the operating system's selected visual theme (Aero, Luna, etc). I'm wondering if I can include multiple theme resource dictionaries with my application and utilise some existing theme support ...

Scroll thumb is scrolling past the track skin boundary in Flex app (with screen shot and code)

I created a custom scroll thumb in Flex but the scroll thumb is scrolling past the track skin. Check out this screen shot. This is my code for the track skin, which essentially just makes it invisible so it appears to be rounded: package com.project.skins { import flash.display.DisplayObject; import flash.geom.Rectangle; ...

DotNetNuke CSS problem on page postback?

We're having a very strange problem with css in DotNetNuke. It seems that with any of our custom modules, if a user clicks to postback 9 times the skin css is removed and the page becomes rather ugly. Looking at the source the tags with the urls to the css files are gone. After one more click making 10 postbacks, any custom css files w...

Very best example of application using Themes with Skins & CSS

Can you share with me the very best example you have ever seen of a web application that is using skins, themes and CSS in near-perfect harmony? I'm talking best in show. I'm talking about the application that you wish you could be when you grow up. I'm also talking about an application that is real-world and not just a facade. It is a ...

Skins and Stylesheet noob question

I have a Skin File that contains: < asp:TextBox runat="server" CssClass="FixedFont"/> In the same folder as the Skin file, is the following css file. The Css file contains: .FixedFont { font-family:Courier; } Lastly, I have an ASPX page which contains the following control: <asp:TextBox ID="TextBox1" runat="server">Te...

List of themeable / skinable properties for ASP.NET controls?

Does anyone know how or where I can find a list of properties that can be defined in a skin file for standard ASP.NET controls? Thanks ...

Changing the main view using the NSUserDefaults and the settings bundle

I have a game on the App Store, and for the next version I am working on having an option in the settings to use different skin. So for example, lets say I choose the basketball option. I would want the app to show the basketball .xib instead of the default view controller. How would I do that? There would be about 4-5 different ski...

VCL for Web skins/themes ?

Hi All, Has anyone created a skin/theme wrapper for Intraweb/VCL for Web ? The default look of the grids etc are very dated.. Any info appreciated.. Thanks ...

ASP.NET theme skins

Is there a way to apply a skin only to controls of a certain type and a specific ID? For instance, I have controls throughout a site used to display our company phone number that look like this: <asp:Label ID="PhoneLabel" runat="server"></asp:Label> I'm wondering if I can set the theme programmatically and use a skin for that theme t...