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Stickies Skin Designer
Skinner
The Skinner application is what you use to create skins for Stickies. These are ways of
changing the appearance, and the functionality of Stickies. The Skinner was developed in-house to create the default skin,
and has been released to all to allow others to easily and quickly design and preview their ideas.
The file below includes the Skinner application itself, which is a single, stand-alone executable, a tutorial explaining
how to create skins, and walk you through your first skin, and the source files for the skin which comes with Stickies.
There are many more skins which are available - click the above link to search for more skins, all of which can be
changed to suit your preferences.
Skin files have a ssk extension. Internally they're zip files, renamed so that they can be associated with Stickies
and easily loaded, but by changing the name from .ssk to .zip, the two files inside can be extracted, and loaded into
the Skinner for modifcation, or to see how the skin has been put together.
What's new in Skinner v2.0 (Jan 08)
- Skins support custom tooltip fonts
- Wallpaper draw now always on as it's faster
- You can drag and drop ssk and inis onto the dialog to open them
- Creating a new element opens it for editing
- MRU (most recently used) list
- Only 'bitmap' type hstrip and vstrip areas are shown as a highlight on the source bitmap
- Conditional elements now count as indicators in the text details
- Buttons (actions) and bitmap (no actions) elements have different icons in the elements list
- The element edit box position is now saved relative to the Skinner application, not the screen
- Bug with choosing region/transparency color for the first time by altering only RGB values fixed
- Sample creation date reads time format from system so is closer to what will be displayed in Stickies
- Larger dialog
- Support for v4 of the skin language, which includes:
- Alpha-blended buttons, indicators and strips
- Scrollbars
- "Thumbtrack", "Specify", "Page up", "Page down", "Set as default style", "Apply Style X", "Send to FF X", image
button actions
- Elements can be drawn in any order
- Elements can be conditionally drawn based on the size of the sticky
- A default style for stickies can be specified in the skin
- The font used for tooltips can be specified in the skin
- %MODIFIED% text tag (functionality coming in v7 of Stickies)
- Unicode titles (functionality coming in v7 of Stickies)
- "Image" indicator (functionality coming in v7 of Stickies)
The v4 skin language requires at least v6.5a of Stickies
Version details
 Download skinner.zip (695k)
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