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Windows => Third Party Plug-ins, Programs, and Skins => Topic started by: nila on November 19, 2003, 12:59:53 pm

Title: Skinning Plugins
Post by: nila on November 19, 2003, 12:59:53 pm

Hiya :)

Just wondering - how do we skin the plugins so our buttons look the same as the ones inside of MC etc?

I noticed Rhino has done it in his plugin - is it hard? easy? how do I do it??

Title: Re:Skinning Plugins
Post by: nila on November 19, 2003, 01:06:10 pm

also - how do I change the background colour for the control (plugin) at runtime? trying to do: ctrlName.backcolor = blah
just gives me an error.

Also - is there any easy way to change the background colour for ALL the items on the page without having to name each one and specifying it's bg colour individually?

Title: Re:Skinning Plugins
Post by: RhinoBanga on November 19, 2003, 02:53:13 pm

You have to query MC to get the name of the colours of items, e.g.:

m_pMJ->GetSkinInfo( "Tree", "BackColor" )


And you have to look in the skin .XML to get the name of the section/item.

And if you want to get the treeview font you have to poke around in the registry.

And it you want to set all controls to a particular colour you can iterate over your own objects:

Dim Object As Object
For Each Object In Me.Controls
    MsgBox Object.Name
Next

Title: Re:Skinning Plugins
Post by: nila on November 19, 2003, 03:11:03 pm

Yeah - I did that :0

Used it to get the colour of the tree to set the background colour which worked great.

But I cant seem to then set the control background colour to = the value I just got - it works for the buttons etc but not for the control background.


Also - how do you skin the buttons etc to make them look lilke the ones in the MC skin?