nxbacktop.png for the background of a dock at the top, titlea.png for the titlebar of an active menu, etc.) and there are so many of them that they are hard, if not impossible, to memorize. Winstep skinning is based on using specific filenames for bitmap files (e.g.
Something else that was very important was to make things easier to the skinner. So you press a button and the theme you are working on is instantly applied to Winstep Xtreme, thus allowing a 100% correct preview of what you are doing. If you're running Nexus free, only the components for Nexus show up on the tree view, if Ultimate, only the components for Ultimate, and so on.Īlso, to keep things simple, instead of making a 'mockup preview' of the theme being worked on in the Builder itself (which would mean duplicating a lot of code and bloating the Builder) the applications themselves are used to preview skins (actually not different from what happened back when the skinning Preferences were part of their GUI). I started with a basic idea of a component tree view on the left with the actual skinning settings on the right. The Builder is currently work in progress, so if you would like to chime in on how you think it should actually work, now is the time. So I give you the first foundations of the new Winstep Theme Builder: Well, the wait is finally over (it's been so long that saying this almost feels like a joke, but it really isn't). This forced some Winstep skinners to run a separate copy of v9.5 only to make skins, while others ended up delving into the INI configuration files directly. But that's not what happened, as time went on adding new features became a much bigger priority than the dedicated Theme Builder which ended up becoming nothing but a distant memory of a promise. This was supposed to be only for a short time, only while all those skinning options were moved to a separate dedicated application. The UI was completely revamped and, since only a very small percentage of users are actually interested in making skins, all skinning options were removed to help minimize the common complaint of UI clutter. Unfortunately all that changed after v9.5. As some of you will remember, Winstep was one of the few skinnable applications that actually had a GUI interface to skin it:
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