Exontrol's ExSkin is a powerful ActiveX control designed to transform the visual appearance of your application's forms by providing comprehensive skinning support. With ExSkin, you can customize every aspect of your windows - captions, frames, client and non-client areas, and much more - giving your application a unique and modern look. The control includes an intuitive WYSIWYG Skin Builder that makes creating and editing skins straightforward and efficient. Simply drop the control onto your form, load your desired skin, and instantly refresh your application's interface. Whether you want to emulate the style of MacOS, BeOS, Unix, or craft a custom Winamp-inspired user experience, ExSkin makes it easy. Beyond static visuals, ExSkin enables fully interactive user interfaces, empowering end users to personalize and modify the application's appearance dynamically as they work, enhancing usability and engagement.
Features include:
1. Ease of Use and Editing
- Simple to use
- WYSIWYG Skin Builder included
2. Skin File Handling
- Ability to save files as compressed or uncompressed formats
- Ability to load multiple pictures in a single skin file
- Ability to load skin files from BASE64 encoded strings
- Ability to load skins at runtime, as well as change the skin for any non-top window
3. Visual and Design Features
- Non-rectangular windows support
- Transparent colors support
- Ability to assign HTML text to the form's caption
- Ability to display an image on the form's caption from a BASE64 encoded string
- Ability to specify the colors for active or inactive state
4. Advanced Customization
- Ability to assign a skin file to MDI windows and frames as well
- Ability to define coordinates of skin objects using arithmetic expressions including % sign
