Gui?

I've noticed that most VB Apps look about the same. Is there some type of control you could you to give your VB apps a unique look? The grey form/controls (considering that you have your 3D object set to default in your display control panel). I know you can change the color of your form, but still...most VB apps look that same...I'll stop the annoying questions at some point today, I promise :)

there are skin controls that can give u'r app a very special look

Really? Could you send me a few links to where I could get more info?

http://vbaccelerator.com/

This control costs a bit but is very good! You can make skins for it and distribute them like Winamp does!

http://www.softshape.com/activeskin/

Very good, download the demo!

found some skin sample..

http://www.exhedra.com/xq/ASP/txtCod...s/ShowCode.htm

You can write you own nifty little schemes for your forms. Put this in a Form_Paint event, and play with it a while.

VB Code:

Dim cCtrl As Variant
    Dim FY As Long
    Dim FScaleHeight As Long
    Dim FScaleWidth As Long
    ScaleMode = vbPixels
    FScaleHeight = ScaleHeight + 500
    FScaleWidth = ScaleWidth
    DrawStyle = vbInvisible
    FillStyle = vbFSSolid
    For FY = 0 To FScaleHeight
        FillColor = RGB(255 - (FY * 255) \ FScaleHeight, 200, 150)
        Line (-1, FY - 1)-(FScaleWidth, FY + 1), , B
    Next

Wow! Nice! Just what I was looking for, but that $99 you have to pay is a bit discouraging :-/

I've looking through vbAccelerator, but haven't found anything just yet.

I wonder if there is something that does what ActiveSkin does, but it's free? ...probably not, but I'll keep my fingers crossed ;)