[REBOL] Re: Skins?
From: etienne::alaurent::free::fr at: 30-Sep-2001 0:26
Robert M. Muench wrote:
>Hi, today I surfed around at the REB and found the different skins from
>DocKimbel and Etienne. Very cool stuff of course! Anyway, the most thing I hear
>when showing Rebol is: Well nice, but it's not XYZ style and doens't run inside
>a browser. The first thing seems to be solveable, yet!
>
>I have some suggestions & questions about skins:
>
Any suggestion is welcome :-)
>1. How much ressources does a new skin needs? Are there are any numbers
>concering memory, run-time etc.?
>
I never made tests about memory needs. But if you want to use images,
consider to use the smallest to limit the memory use. It's common sense.
>2. Is there a standard way for creating skins? Anyone thought about a skin
>creator? IMO it would be nice to have a how-to about skin makeing.
>
The standard way is the way explained in the Rebol/View docs with
stylesheets : define your own standard stylesheets and customize its
like explained in the docs. About a skin creator, the best way, I think,
is to customize and make more powerful the "effect lab" you can find in
the REBOL.com Demos. You can find an how-to about skin making in the
Rebol/View docs with stylesheets. If these docs are not sufficient, have
a look to WinSkins from DocKimbel or my skins demo in my reb sit
("Etienne" reb site).
>3. I haven't used any of the available skins yet, but it seems not to be to
>hard. Did others use these skins already? What's your experience?
>
I would like to have feed-back too ...
>4. Does RT plan to support skins as build-in feature?
>
What I can say is that RT is very interested about DocKimbel's skins,
and mine.
Wait and see ;-) Perhaps good surprises soon ...
