http://forum.codejock.com/ Copyright (c) 2006-2013 Web Wiz Forums - All Rights Reserved. Sun, 05 Apr 2026 15:04:47 +0000 Wed, 27 Feb 2013 10:31:39 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Web Wiz Forums 12.04 360 forum.codejock.com/RSS_post_feed.asp?TID=20638 http://forum.codejock.com/forum_images/codejock-logo.gif http://forum.codejock.com/ http://forum.codejock.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=20638&PID=69764&title=how-to-skin-e-g-edit-controls#69764 Author: UglySwede
Subject: 20638
Posted: 27 February 2013 at 10:31am

Hi!

I'm working with an application that has used Codejock for many years - we will now start using more features, e.g. skins.

I like Codejock, and SkinBuilder is very nice and powerful. (And the inheritance mechanism is very smart.) But I wish there was better documentation/a tutorial. Not so much on SkinBuilder itself, but of the different properties - what they do and how they interact with eachother. Isn't there any thorough documentation of that?

For example, one thing we want to skin is the Edit box. But I can't get that to work. We would want:

  - A different background color, both when enabled and disabled. But none of the properies seem to work. (By setting the "Window"-property under "System Metrics", you can set the background for all controls. But how do you set the background for just the Edit controls?)

  - A different color of the text, but the "TextColor" property doesn't work.

  - To set the border to a different color. The "BorderColor" property sometimes works, sometimes it just changes the color around the increase/decrease buttons. Is there some other property that takes precedence?

  - A thicker border, but the "BorderSize" property doesn't work. Nor does the "ContentMargins" to get a larger margin between the border and the text.

  - We would very much like rounded corners on our Edit controls, and there is a property for "BorderType" with the value "RoundRect". But it doesn't work.

There must be a lot I haven't understood...  I would be VERY grateful if anybody could give me some help - or give me a link to some documentation!

And I have a coding question: I understand that I can use different skins on different windows - and even individual controls. But can you programmatically set individual properties from C++? For example change the text color of an individual Edit control? Or do you have to create a skin/schema for that?

Best regards

Anders from Sweden]]> Wed, 27 Feb 2013 10:31:39 +0000 http://forum.codejock.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=20638&PID=69764&title=how-to-skin-e-g-edit-controls#69764