Creating Skins with SkinSys Ver 1.0

Introduction

Contents

• CSkinsys codes
• Simple Skin Editor
• A beatiful MPEG 1,2,3 decoder (Copyright www.eldos.org - based on the MAPlay Decoder)
• MPEGPlayer project

Download Directories

• Decoder: MPEG Decoder codes
• Editor : Skineditor Files
• Sample : Sample Skin Files
• SkinSys: CSkinsys Codes
• Root : MPEGPlayer Project

Requirements

How to Use

1. Draw mask bitmap
2. Draw main Bitmap
3. If you need or want
• Draw mouse over bitmap
• Draw mouse down bitmap
• Draw disable bitmap
4. Run Skineditor
5. Select "Screens" Tab
6. Fill All Pictures
7. If you want select "Preview" Button
8. Save and exit
9. Run Visual Studio
10. Create a Dialog based new Project (for example Dialog Name = CBaseDialog)
11. Include "SkinDialog.h" (for example in "StdAfx.h")
12. Change to CBaseDialog : public CDialog to CBaseDialog : public CSkinDialog
13. Go to CBaseDialog::OnInitDialog
14. Add these lines

    char m_skin[512];
    sprintf(m_skin, "<Your Skin Name>");
    
    // If you want a menu < Activate to Right click > add this line
    SetMenuID(IDR_MAINMENU);
    
    // If you Want Caption 
    SetWindowText("MPEG Player");
    
    // Set To My SkinFile
    SetSkinFile(m_skin);
    CSkinDialog::OnInitDialog();
    

15. Compile and Run

Controlling Button Clicks, Trackbar, ProgressBar and Text

void ProgresChanged(CString m_Name); // If progress changes
void MouseMoved(CString m_ButtonName, int x, int y); // if Mouse Moved
void TrackChange(CString m_ButtonName, UINT nSBCode, UINT nPos); // if Trackbar change
void ButtonPressed(CString m_ButtonName); // if Button Pressed

• Changing the tooltip Use one of the Set<xxx>ToolTip functions. Where <xxx> is Button, Text, etc. For example:

  SetButtonToolTip("BUTTON_USEEQ", "Equalizer is On");
  

• Getting Value Use one of the Get<xxx> functions. For example:

  BOOL useEQ = GetButtonCheck("BUTTON_USEEQ"); // if BUTTON_USEEQ checked)
  

• Setting Value
Use one of the Set<xxx> functions. For example:

SetButtonCheck("BUTTON_USEEQ", useEQ); // if useEQ = True BUTTON_USEEQ is checked)

Additional Notes

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