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How to Get New Skins

You can easily expand Screen Saver's skin collection.

Get a skin from this page

Butterfly

Old Fashioned Clock

Download the skin

Ray of Buttons

Bubbles

Download the skin

Steps:

download the skin file;

copy the downloaded file to the Cortona Saver skin directory
(e.g. C:\Program Files\ParallelGraphics\Cortona Screen Saver\Skins\);

select a new skin in the Skin tab of the Cortona Saver Properties window.

Try to create a new skin for the navigation panel

Steps:

draw background for the skin;

draw buttons with different states;

create the skin directory (e.g. C:\Program Files\ParallelGraphics\Cortona Screen Saver\Skins\My) and put the graphic files there;

write Skin Definition File and put it in the same directory;

launch Screen Saver properties and select the Skin tab;

drag'n'drop unzipped files to the Playlist.

Skin Definition File

File name: cortsaver.inf

Supported graphic formats: GIF, JPEG, BMP

Entry format:

for background image <id> : <filename>

for all buttons <id> : <filename> <state_count> <left> <top> [mask | opaque]

Valid identifiers are the following:

Identifier	Number of states (recommended)	Functionality
background	[n/a]	background image
navmode_walk	3	navigation mode: walk
navmode_fly	3	navigation mode: fly
navmode_examine	3	navigation mode: examine
mousemode_plan	4	mouse mode: plan
mousemode_pan	4	mouse mode: pan
mousemode_roll	4	mouse mode: roll
mousemode_turn	4	mouse mode: turn
camera_align	4	align camera
camera_fitscene	3	fit to scene
camera_goto	6	toggle goto mode
viewpoint_prev	3	switch to previous viewpoint
viewpoint_next	3	switch to next viewpoint
viewpoint_restore	3	restore current viewpoint
viewpoint_tour	6	viewpoint tour
headlight	6	toggle headlight
collider	6	toggle collider
playlist_prev	4	load previous scene from playlist
playlist_next	4	load next scene from playlist
exit	3	exit application

Each button image contains several states. Valid values of this parameter are:

3 - normal, 'mouse over', pressed

4 - normal, 'mouse over', pressed, 'grayed' (disabled)

6 - checkbox style button

7 - same as 6 with disabled state

Download example with Skin Definition File and skin graphic files. You can create a new skin and publish it at this Web page.
If you have any questions, please, contact us by e-mail: support@parallelgraphics.com

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