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How to add sparkle to your Delphi programs

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skin of Delphi and finds ways of. adding pizzazz to your programs ... application for a few seconds when the program is being loaded. ...

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How to add sparkle to your Delphi programs 214/ PC Plus.co.uk 187 PROGRAMMERS WORLD T here is more than one way to skin a cat, or so they say. Though, frankly, I cant imagine why anyone should want to try! If youd seen my cat hunt, skin and decapitate the local fauna, you would have second thoughts about stroking her, let alone making a grab for her pelt. Nevertheless, skinning the proverbial cat is what this months Workshop is all about. Skinned applications are all the rage these days. In this sense, a skin is just a name for an alternative user interface. Some programs provide a fairly basic skinning capability. They might let you change the positions and colours of buttons, for example. Others, such as the Windows Media Player, can load up skins that alter the entire look and feel of the application even to the extent of changing the shape of its window. Instead of being stuck inside a boring square frame, a skinned application might have an oval, round or irregularly-shaped window. This month well find out how to create windows in various shapes. Well also learn how to make selected parts of a window transparent so that you can see the underlying desktop showing through it. These techniques will...

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