About ActiveSkin Software

[wizzer]

Where i can find the activeskin software to follow the tutorial about skinning avast?

Any help is appreciated

[Eddy]

http://www.avast.com/eng/skins.html

[wizzer]

Probably i'm blind, but i do not see any link o refence to the active skin software, i've downloaded two files too, but.... nothing

[szc]

Google is your friend...

http://www.softpedia.com/get/Programming/Components-Libraries/ActiveSkin.shtml

Btw, ActiveSkin is not freeware program, you have to purchase the license, and I believe it's around $100

[kms]

ActiveSkin is not freeware program, and I believe it's around $100

Are there any free alternatives?  It wouldn't make a lot of sense to purchase a $99 program in order to skin a free one. Can one construct a skin using only photoshop?

[szc]

No you can't... you need ActiveSkin's Skin Builder to compile everything. There is no way you can do these animations (sliding panels) in Photoshop. In fact I never used Photoshop in my whole life... I have it but don't use it for this. I use Macromedia Fireworks... even at my job where I do this for living.

avast! GUI runs on ActiveSkin engine, so you have to use ActiveSkin's SkinBuilder. There is no other way at this point.