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Skinning Delphi Applications
Change the Look and Feel of your Delphi applications - Add Themes and Skins!

By Zarko Gajic, About.com

A collection of Delphi component sets to let you add skinning support to your Delphi applications. Applying a skin or a theme ("skinning") to the application changes its look and feel: graphical user interface.

AlphaControls

A package of standard and unique skinable VCL's for professional UI design development using AlphaSkins. AlphaControls is an easy-to-use universal and powerful tool for developing original skinned and non-skinned business/media applications.

VCLSkin

VCLSkin is a component to create skinnable user interface for Delphi application. It is very easy to use, just put on component on the main form, VCLSkin will skin the whole application without anysource code modification.

DynamicSkinForm

DynamicSkinForm VCL library help you to create applications with skins. Skins support for forms, menus, hints, many standard and non-standard original controls. Skins with many objects, effects help you to create standard and non- standard cool applications (like WinAmp, iTunes). Also you can create your skins with special editor. SkinAdapter is a component for DynamicSkinForm which allows to make applications skinnable without modifing source code.

SUISkin

SUISkin provides you the ability to make skin-supported application automatically. Using SUISkin, you don't need to make any modification for your existing projects just drop the skin engine component onto the main form and set some properties, that's all. It can skin all forms and dialogs automatically. And the skin files can be compiled into the EXE file so that you don't need to distribute the skin files with the EXE. At run-time, you can switch the skins very easily and you can switch to unskinned easily too.

AppFace

AppFace User Interface Developoment Kits is a visual application GUI skinning solution that can be used in VC, C#, VB.Net, Delphi, Visual Basic, C++ Builder and Win32 SDK. It includes skinning control, visual skin maker, sample source code under VC, C#, VB.Net, Delphi, Visual Basic, C++ Builder and Win32 SDK as well as technical manual. The skinning library - appface.dll, is the kernel component,it can skin all the created windows automatically in the target application.

Skin Engine

SkinEngine is a library of components which allows to change visual appearance and behavior of your application with use of the powerful skinning engine and a set of 2000+ ready skins.
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