How to skin e.g. Edit controls?

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