How to Enable Skin Support in an Application
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This topic describes how to add skin support to an application built with DevExpress VCL controls.
Skins are visual themes that allow you to apply a common GUI style to an application. Users can switch between themes at runtime. All DevExpress VCL controls, except the controls mentioned below, support skins.
You can use built-in and custom skins in your application. To create new themes based on existing skins, use the Skin Editor application.
Supported Controls
The ExpressSkins Library adds skin support to forms, frames, standard panels, buttons, message dialogs and boxes, check boxes, radio buttons and DevExpress VCL controls except for the following controls:
Outdated editors in the ExpressBars Suite (TdxBarEdit, TdxBarLookupCombo, TCustomdxBarCombo, TdxBarCombo, TdxBarColorCombo, TdxBarFontNameCombo, TdxBarDateCombo, TdxBarTreeViewCombo, TdxBarImageCombo, TdxBarSpinEdit, and TdxBarProgressItem).
ExpressDBTreeSuite.
Add Skin Support
Open the Project sub-menu in the toolbar.
Select “Modify Skin Options”.
Click “Enable Skin Support” and choose one or more skins in the skin options editor.
You can apply any of the selected skins to:
An application built with DevExpress VCL controls. To do this, place a skin controller or a look and feel controller on an application form and assign a skin name to the component’s SkinName property.
A DevExpress VCL control. To do this, assign a skin name to the control’s LookAndFeel.SkinName property. Note that you should use the Style.LookAndFeel.SkinName property for ExpressEditors.