How to Modify Skin Options Applied to the Application Project
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This topic describes how you can modify skin options in your application project and persist them between your development sessions.
The ExpressSkins Library allows you to specify whether a particular application project supports skins and which built-in skins are included into the application as resources. To modify these skin options, you can do any of the following:
Use the built-in Project Skin Options Editor, for easy customization.
Load/unload skin packages from the IDE’s design-time packages list available via the Component | Install Packages menu item, for comprehensive customization.
You can save modified skin options with your project and later automatically re-apply them when this project is opened in the IDE.
With the Project Skin Options Editor, skin options are automatically stored to a .SKINCFG file located alongside your project file. This allows you to keep skin settings with a project and easily share them between your teammates working on the project.
Changes to the IDE’s design-time packages list are saved with other options to the project options file.
Note
Due to a known issue in CodeGear RAD Studio 2007 and 2009, changes to the design-time packages list are not preserved by the IDE. So, the Project Skin Options Editor provides the only way to persist your project skin options in these IDEs, without having to modify the design-time packages list.