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[Pookus]

Can anyone tell me how to skin my interface plug-in?

The plug-in page displays fine, the internals are working, Init() and Terminate() are called etc. Only MC does not appear to skin my page. I know this can work, since I see that the AudioScrobbler plug-in is all neatly skinned. Can anyone point me in the right direction?

My MC version is 10.0.173.

TIA,

-Pook-

[Qythyx]

I can't get my plugin to show any UI at all yet, so I can't verify this, but I believe there is some setting somewhere that is called something like "Apply Windows XP Styles". If you do that then it might help. Obviously this setting depends on you dev environment.

[Pookus]

Not sure what that setting is. There's nothing like it in my dev env -- I think I might be missing some basic call to EnableSkinning() perhaps. I didn't think I would *have* to call that function, but if (big if) I do have to call it, then when should I call it? I dunno, I'm a little lost on the skinning.

[Qythyx]

I checked the docs and one of these might help:

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void EnableSkinning(number bEnable)

Description: Enables and disabled Media Center skinning. Useful in case when MC could not skin plug-in window correctly.
Parameters:

bEnable: TRUE - enable skinning, FALSE - disable.

or

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void SkinWindow(number nWindowHandle, boolean bSkin)

Description: Skins or removes skinning from the specified window.
Parameters:

nWindowHandle: handle to the specific window (convert HWND to long)
bSkin: TRUE - enables skinning of the specified window, FALSE - disables skinning for the window.


[Pookus]

Yeah I tried those to no avail, but then I'm not too sure *when* I should be calling those. I'll continue to prod at it, thanks.

[Qythyx]

If you figure it out please explain what you did, I'm having the same problem now.

[@l@n]

Did anyone make any headway with this issue?

I'd sure like to skin aTagger.

Thanks...  @l@n