ActiveSkin is an ActiveX control that changes the visual appearance of forms or dialogs, providing developers with full-featured support for 'application skins', or 'application look and feel'. ActiveSkin makes it easy to create programs with visually stunning, fully interactive user interfaces.
With ActiveSkin you could make your program look exactly like it was from another OS, or create your own user WinAmp-like "skinned" interfaces, or just give it a different, distinctive look.
ActiveSkin Features:
Full support for standard skins makes it possible to skin the entire application with a single line call
Advanced application-specific skins support enables you to create stunning skins for your application only
Full support of translucent layered windows for soft shadows, glows or glass-like effects
Powerful animation system, based on key-frame concept
Animated, interactive skins can be created entirely in SkinBuilder, without any additional coding needed
Improved performance and reduced memory usage
Fade-In transitions make it possible to create splash screens
Up to 50 built-in transition effects, alpha-blending operations, hue transforms and other image effects
Compiled skins, that can be built directly into executable
An easy to use yet powerful SkinBuilder application