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Enable Skin support in your Symbian OS applications

eric — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 14:22:02 +0200

The code described in the post works for 3rd Edition.

Enable Skin support in your Symbian OS applications

Himanshu — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 14:16:33 +0200

hi eric, please update this post S60 3rd edition.

Enable Skin support in your Symbian OS applications

Anonymous — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 12:50:01 +0100

Hi..

I want some more information about getting the bitmaps from the skin.

I want to know how to get the bitmaps (say the background image for progress bar, or menu tab from the skin). I tried with ..

colour = (CAknsItemData * )skin->GetCachedItemData (KAknsIIDQsnBgAreaMainFlat , EAknsITBitmap ); if(colour) { CAknsBitmapItemData* colourData = static_cast<CAknsBitmapItemData*>(colour); CFbsBitmap *bitmp = colourData->Bitmap(); }

is this correct??

do anyone have a list of available(minimum ) bitmaps in the skin. When i run this application on different skins it always shows a blank image.. i dont know wether it is working properly or not...please clarify my doubts.

Skins and S60 3rd Edition

Relghuar — Mon, 07 Aug 2006 10:38:03 +0200

Hi I just tested your code with Nokia n80 (S60 3rd ed., Symbian 9.1 phone) - everything you write in your article works perfectly fine :-D I don't even have to call a special method for Listbox to work with skins (probably it's active by default). Doesn't work by CEikLabel, though. Probably not meant to be skinned? I don't know yet. Anyway, thanx a lot for the hints :-) Bye

Enable Skin support in your Symbian OS applications

Anonymous — Tue, 04 Jul 2006 12:04:17 +0200

Hi,

What type of iListBox is ? I tried with custom list box but it gave error that ColumnData(),ItemDrawer(), SetSkinEnabled() are not member of that class. which listbox should i use ? thnx in advace.........

Enable Skin support in your Symbian OS applications

Priju — Tue, 04 Jul 2006 11:51:08 +0200

Hows that to bring the skins for Menu too.I was able to create the skin support for the cba and grids.but i dont find the bitmap shown in the menus..is there any way to do it. regards

Enable Skin support in your Symbian OS applications

Mihalych — Tue, 30 May 2006 10:43:57 +0200

Hi. it is worked. Cool. How displey skins in the dialog. I us CEikDialog. Thank you.

Enable Skin support in your Symbian OS applications

Mihalych — Mon, 29 May 2006 17:45:35 +0200

All work exactly. It nice. I would like see my skin in the dialog. I us CEikDialog. How to do it?

Enable Skin support in your Symbian OS applications

Anonymous — Tue, 09 May 2006 13:05:37 +0200

Here is some information how to fetch suitable colors through skins aswell.

The different color groups are defined in aknsconstants.h and they are:

KAknsIIDQsnIconColors, KAknsIIDQsnTextColors, KAknsIIDQsnLineColors, KAknsIIDQsnOtherColors and KAknsIIDQsnHighlightColors

All the color groups have corresponding enum, which is used to choose a specific color in the group. Every value in the enum has different purpose, but fortunately every item has atleast some kind of description

Example, how to fetch main area text color through skins library

// Initialize the color to some default value as GetCachedColor(...) won't change it if the colori is not defined in the skin

TRgb color(0,0,0);

GetCachedColor(skin, color, KAknsIIDQsnTextColors, EAknsCIQsnTextColorsCG6 );

Additionally, to use skins you probably don't need to link against aknskinsrv.lib at all, but aknskins.lib should be enough.

Also you probably need to take care of KAknsMessageSkinChange in your applications HandleResourceChange function (and refetch the needed information through skins), and in some cases you need to call HandleResourceChange for the subcomponents you might have.

Enable Skin support in your Symbian OS applications

eric — Tue, 09 May 2006 11:36:59 +0200

Nokia has introduced skin support in S60 v2 but this support is not enabled by default: your application will display a not so original white background unless you enable the skin support. Here is how to proceed...