With the appearance of SkinStudio Stardock introduces the new, easy
way of creating complex skins: skin parts and GUI
widgets importing. This document explains the idea and method of
creation of a widget. Previously skinners had to create their own skins
by compromising on either time or skin complexity. Sure, we all love
to create fancy frames, but most of us do not feel happy thinking
of creating scrollbars, checkboxes and all the tiny, little pieces
to make the skin look really good. Here's where the guiwigets come in
handy. Widgets are just GUI pieces (scrollbars, progress bars,
frames, title bar buttons, push buttons, menus, etc.) published
by skin authors so that you can easily insert them into your skin.
One could compare them to the DesktopX objects.
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