Form Skinning

[Paul Hartness]

I want to be able to skin my application producing non-standard form shapes
such as WinAmp & Windows Media Player. I have reviewed toolkits such as
DirectSkin, SkinCrafter, SkinBoxer, SkinMagic etc. and though they provide
skinning of existing application frames, forms and controls they do not
allow for changing the shape of the form nor arrangement of the controls. I
realise with .NET it is easy to provide a non-rectangular form by simply
using a bitmap and a transparancy colour but what is lacking is a way to
re-arrange control and there size to fit the new bitmap.

Now I have come across somethign called TSkinForm which appears to do just
that but it is a Delphi control :-(

Does anyone know of another product for .NET & c# that may help me?

Thanks in advance
Paul

 

[Guest]

Hello,
You can use Region Master Control available at

http://www.windowsforms.net/ControlGallery/ControlDetail.aspx?Control=219&tabindex=0

This msdntV episode should help you get things going:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdntv/episode.aspx?xml=episodes/en/20040401WinFormsMH/manifest.xml


regards,
Hammad.Rajjoub.
http://dotnetwizards.blogspot.com