Questions tagged [skins]

A skin is a custom graphical appearance achieved by the use of a graphical user interface (GUI) that can be applied to specific software and websites to suit the purpose, topic, or tastes of different users.

A skin (also known as visual styles in Windows XP) is a custom graphical appearance achieved by the use of a graphical user interface (GUI) that can be applied to specific software and websites to suit the purpose, topic, or tastes of different users. A skin may be associated with themes. Software that is capable of having a skin applied is referred to as being skinnable, and the process of writing or applying such a skin is known as skinning.

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Change the button color at Runtime depending on property when VCL Styles are applied

I am working with VCL styles in Delphi 10.2. I have a MyButtonStyle property on a custom button component - TMyButton, which inherits from TButton. type MyButtonStyle = ('Default', 'Red', 'Yellow', 'Green'); Based on the MyButtonStyle property…
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How to apply image states in spark dropdownlist

I have a spark dropdownlist and I have applied custom skin on it to display images in it instead of labels.
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How to skin buttons in flex 3?

Just out of curiosity, I am making an effort to optimize every part of our flex app (which is a small part of our app in general). Currently, I am working on optimizing all of the buttons/skins. I have linked a few of the buttons that I use, and…
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How to modify base_properties in Plone custom skin

I want to change some of the built-in styles contained in a Plone 4 installation, and a reading of the docs tells me that the best way to do this is to copy the base_properties.props file to SOMEWHERE in the file tree, and then to modify it. A…
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jscrollpage - where are the themes?

I'm running the jscrollpane v2 plugin and so far so good. I went to the version 1 site and there are 6 different skins...very cool. On the ver 2 site, there is only one skin (and that's a generous definition)...where are the skins for ver 2? I…
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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…
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DotNetNuke Skinning

I was reading this tutorial from the DNN website http://www.dotnetnuke.com/Community/Blogs/tabid/825/EntryId/2675/DotNetNuke-Skinning-101-Part-2.aspx I found the tutorial to be very useful, however there was an issue when I tried to apply the CSS…
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Applying skins through actionscript

I have a problem in applying the styles for scroll bar skins through actionscript. In css we specify as thumbOverSkin: Embed(source="assets/thumb_over.png",scaleGridLeft="4",scaleGridTop="4", scaleGridRight="5", scaleGridBottom="5"); In…
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What is best practice on ASP.NET MVC projects and extensionable/skinned systems?

I've been wondering about best practices on creating a project in MVC, and let others create extension/modules/plugins and skins/themes etc, for it. For example WordPress is great at this. Just upload a file or folder. Or even browse the plugins…
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Whats happening when switching themes in Sugar CRM or similar kind of application

Can anyone tell me what's happening when i click on a different color / Them icon in sugar CRM or new ORKUT. I am trying to develop a similar kind of application(in ASP.NET) where i need to switch to different themes. I dont want to use the ASP.NET…
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How to use multiple container in single page in DotNetNuke?

I am using a CMS (DotNetNuke) for creating a web application. I am newbe for dotnetnuke. I searched on net for add or create multiple container for a single page and also installed some package from dotnetnuke site. But there is a issue for add or…
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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…
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How to create skins(fxml) for buttons and other elements in JavaFX 2.0?

I am wondering if anyone has or knows a link from where I can learn or see how to create skins for buttons, radio buttons, scrollbars etc. using fxml files in JavaFX 2.0. I have this homework for school and I want it built very well, so I try to do…
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Settings in ASPxGridView Skins

Can you set settings in ASPxGridView skins? For example: This would be very helpfull because all the grids that are using this style would have filter bar…
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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…
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