Christmas Skin

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   Look at this neat Christmas skin used by this non-MFC app; it is slightly different for the toolbar & ribbon versions.  I wish Codejock would pay their graphics artists to crank out a few classy skins like this for their ribbon users:

Ribbon style:

  http://flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=2108645319&size=o

Toolbar style:

  http://flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=2108631125&size=o

Also, even though the BCGSoft library is inferior to CJ, there is one little skinning trick that CJ needs to borrow from it:  its demo allows you to specify any custom color to create your own custom skin from!  It's true; go run their office 2007 demo to verify it.  I love that capability, because every app should be able to automatically adapt to the user's desktop colors if the user so wishes -- not just use one of several bitmap skins.

Now post a reponse so I have something to read.  The lack of comments in these forums bugs me.

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Mike Vance Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Newbie Joined: 14 September 2007 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 7	Post Options Post Reply Quote Mike Vance Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Topic: Christmas Skin Posted: 18 December 2007 at 2:35am
	Look at this neat Christmas skin used by this non-MFC app; it is slightly different for the toolbar & ribbon versions. I wish Codejock would pay their graphics artists to crank out a few classy skins like this for their ribbon users: Ribbon style: http://flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=2108645319&size=o Toolbar style: http://flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=2108631125&size=o Also, even though the BCGSoft library is inferior to CJ, there is one little skinning trick that CJ needs to borrow from it: its demo allows you to specify any custom color to create your own custom skin from! It's true; go run their office 2007 demo to verify it. I love that capability, because every app should be able to automatically adapt to the user's desktop colors if the user so wishes -- not just use one of several bitmap skins. Now post a reponse so I have something to read. The lack of comments in these forums bugs me.

Mike Vance Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Newbie Joined: 14 September 2007 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 7	Post Options Post Reply Quote Mike Vance Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 07 January 2008 at 9:01pm
	[COLOR=brown]So is Codejock's skin framework capable enough to display the screens as indicated in the above links? Can the tree lists, for example, have a large photographic background?

Oleg Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Admin Group Joined: 21 May 2003 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 11234	Post Options Post Reply Quote Oleg Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 08 January 2008 at 2:04am
	Hi, it can't be done using SkinFramework. Have to be added manually in your code.
	Oleg, Support Team CODEJOCK SOFTWARE SOLUTIONS