making a skin

[sai]

can any body give pointers to how to build my own skins for an application in VB or VC ......please suggest sites if possible ....:confused:

[plenderj]

Skins, to change the appearance of the application, or skins to wrap around a 3d model ?

[PsychoMark]

http://www.vbaccelerator.com/codelib/gfx/skin.htm

Not always easy to implement, but once up and running, it will skin a VB form including the menus...

[sai]

i ment skin to change the appearence of the client window (and not to skin 3d )..........................
the "vbaccelerator" page was very useful but it called for use of their library functions i was looking for an implementation from the ground up.....

[PsychoMark]

Well, you could set BorderStyle to None, and skin it yourself. The easiest way would be to just use pictureboxes or imageboxes and load the skin into them, or you could use BitBlt to draw the skin onto the form (never used the first method, I like the API more than a picturebox ;)), but it's not really that hard to accomplish.