Merry Christmas and Happy New Year 2009!

SkinCrafter 3.2.0 released

Hi everybody,

We are thrilled to announce the availability of SkinCrafter 3.2.0 version. The new version was released with a number of bug fixes and we recommend everyone to try it. There was a huge amount of work to do, but the end result has been really worth it.

All features might be found in the forum announcement section.

You are welcome to download demo install packages from the following location:
http://skincrafter.com/downloads/sc_demo.zip



Any comments are welcome!

Skincrafter 3.0 is released.

What are the outstanding features we have implemented in it?

That's true RTL support, you may see it in our demo - SkinCrafter Browser.
Choose "Change Layout" in menu and all the controls and forms will switch the layout at runtime, and SkinCrafter will handle this nicely changing all aspects of skinning, all texts, graphics will be reflected accurately.

Install our demo and try it yourself.

Another significant feature is Hue/Saturation/Lightness/Opacity (HSLO) manipulation implemented in SkinCrafter engine. A number of interface methods were added to allow our users to change HSLO values of a whole theme or of a particular controls list.

Check "Color Adjustment" button at the bottom of SkinCrafter Browser preview dialog and see it functioning straightaway.

Finally, we have added a preview area for .Net Strip controls in SkinBuilder, now you will be able to get a better presentation of how the skin will be applied to your dotnet strip components.
That provided a more comfortable way for designers to create the skins for these controls. And as a result, more skins will be updated soon in our skin gallery.

Until SkinCrafter 3.0, our designers and customers faced the problem of implementing a non-standard sizes of scroll bars inside the scrollable controls. And really developers cannot change the size of those and all the designs were forced to support standard 16px scrollbars.

However, SkinCrafter 3.0 offers a solution, we have added "Internal Scrollbars" into the list of supported controls in SkinBuilder, separating them from stand-alone’s. And now it's possible to set any value for width of vertical scrolls and height of horizontal scrolls. We believe that it would be quite useful feature for our users. Giving them more control over the UI of their applications.

Soon, we will release updated versions of SkinCrafter Installer and NSIS plugin.