Designing Skin for Your Screensaver
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Skin Designer is an easy-to-use tool to design the User Interface of your screensaver settings window.
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Menu
Provide menu access to the available commands in Skin Designer

Windows List
List of windows available in the Skin file. Click the window name to activate the window for editing.

Components Bar
List of components available for designing skin. See Components List .

Component's Settings
Here you can set the component's parameters.
·     Show in the Registered Version: If checked the component shows in Registered version only.
·     Show in the Trial Version: If checked the component shows in Trial version only.

Action Bar
Action to be done when user click the component. See Actions List .

Design Window
It's a work area where you design the window.


How to Design a User Interface.
Designing a User Interface with Skin Designer is as simple as click,drag,and drop components.
·     Choose a component from the Components Bar by clicking the component on Component Bar
·     Use the Component's Settings to customize the Component parameters.
·     You can assign an action to the component by using Component's Action.
·     To move the component simply click the component and drag it to the new place.

You can use following reference names to display screensaver information
<ScreensaverName> Shows Screensaver Name
<CompanyName> Shows Company Name
<WebsiteURL> Shows  Website URL
<RegisterURL> Shows Register URL
<RegistrationFee> Shows Registration Fee
<TrialPeriod> Shows Trial Period
<TrialDaysLeft> Shows trial days left