Selecting Skins for Painted Forms

Use the Select Skin command from the File menu to select a runtime skin that is used to display any form that you are painting. Conversely, if a runtime skin is currently displayed in Painter forms, you can specify that no skin is displayed in your forms in the JADE Painter.

To select or cancel the display of a runtime skin on painted forms

1. Select the Select Skin command from the File menu.

   The Select or Cancel a Skin form is then displayed, to enable you to select the runtime skin in the Choose Skin combo box. If you have not loaded any runtime skins into your JADE system, the default value of <None> is the only value available in this combo box.

   The examples\skins subfolder of the JADE install files contains runtime skins that you can load. For details about loading the SampleSkins.ddb or SampleSkins.ddx file, see the readme.txt file in that subfolder.

2. When you select a runtime skin, the Control Examples pane on the form displays an example of controls (and menu and menu items, if selected for display) using that skin, as shown in the following example.

   

3. When you are happy with the controls and menu on the painted form displayed in that skin, click the Apply button. That skin is then applied to any forms being painted.

If a skin is selected, the JADE Painter caption reads JADE Painter : schema‑name::form‑name - using skin 'skin‑name' - [caption‑of‑form]; for example:

JADE Painter : DemoSchema::Company - using skin 'Windows Broadbean' - [Company]

In addition, any subsequent forms opened in the JADE Painter are displayed using the selected runtime skin.

The selected skin is saved in your user preferences when you close the JADE Painter and restored when you re‑open the Painter.

2016.0.01 and higher