Skinning

[BadKharma]

is there any documentation on how to make a skin?  I enjoy skinning apps and would like to make some forAvast

[S.Z.Craftec]

No, not yet... you'll have to learn it the hardest possible way... digging into SoftShape's ActiveSkin - SkinBuilder by yourself. That is exactly what I did... look at the results.  

Cheers !

[BadKharma]

never heard of that program, I'm used to winamp and windows media player skinning

[Vlk]

The ActiveSkin package (v4.27) can be downloaded from http://cat.asw.cz/~vlk/as_v427.zip .

Hope this helps,
Vlk

[BadKharma]

is it freeware or shareware?

[Vlk]

Well in fact it's a programming component to be reused in other applications (like avast).

It comes with a SkinBuilder application, which is "complimentary" (the subject of license is the redistributable component).

We do have the commercial license of ActiveSkin so I believe as far as you use it to build avast skins, you're covered by our license...

[BadKharma]

ok, sounds good, I saw somewhere you wanted a LCARS skin I'll see what I can come up with meanwhile I made some Trek icons in the past link here

[Vlk]

Cool. I think the folks around will be mad.

BTW SZCraftec is probably the biggest avast skin expert, and I'm sure he'd be willing to provide help, if needed.

Thanks
Vlk

[S.Z.Craftec]

Thanks Ondrej... no problem, here I am...

btw, LCARS skin is alive... I'm so happy that I did it... so many avast! users contacts me and send me greetings and compliments for that skin... I didn't even know how popular StarTrek is...

Cheers !

[Toni]

I wanted to find about more about "ActiveSkin - SkinBuilder"
But there is no information about it at this URL : http://www.softshape.com.
Does anyone have the proper URL ?

EDIT
OK, silly me.
I just clicked the "ActiveSkin news..." link : "Not available for the moment."
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