Skin your Applications easily with Sonic Skinner ActiveX Control with few steps. Apply any user designed skins and eliminate the old boring styles. You can just drag & drop the OCX - control file to the Components panel and use it. Its that easy.
Here are some UNIQUE features of Sonic Skinner Control.
Usage
- To add the .ocx control to your IDE, just select the name "SonicSkinner" or Drag & Drop the .ocx control to the Componrnts Panel.
- First Load a Skinnable Image into The Forms "Picture" Property ( *.gif,*.jpg,*.bmp ).
- Set The "Autoredraw" Property of The Form to "True".
- Set the "ShowInTaskBar" Property to "True".
- Set The "BorderStyle" Property of The Form to "None".
- Use MoveForm method at The 'Form_MouseDown' event to Move the Form using Mouse.
example :
SonicSkin1.MoveForm Me, Button
Tips To Optimize
- Use high quality GiF images to get better appearence. You can create the images using Adobe PhotoShop®.
- The ToolBox is a simple Button Control that is used to give the Skinned form Maximize, Minimize, Close and Help Buttons. It is not so vital to use it with the Sonic Skinner because you can create these buttons using a Lable Control or the Sonic Click - Mega button control.
Download Demo Application , Sample Skins & ActiveX Control For Sonic Skinner Control.
*Note : All Sonic Visual Control Demos will open our Website repeatedly. This is the only limitation in the Demo ActiveX controls. This will not be present in Full Versions.
All Minor Version upgrades and Bug Fixes are completely Free !