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Skins in ACB are actually sets of colour settings, in the future I'll add more opportunities.

Changing

In main menu, go to Tools\Options\Select Skin

Modifying and Creating your own skins

In future releases I will make it easier, with dialogs etc... right now, the only way is to do it manually. Skins are simply INI files, located in %AC Browser%Skins directory (usually C:\Program Files\AC Browser\Skins).

Right there, every folder is a skin, in every folder you can find "settings.ini" file, which keeps all the settings of the particular skin.

To create your own skin, the best way is to simply copy one of those folders into a new name. For example, select the "Rose" folder, press Shift+F5 (in place copying), and provide your own name. Then enter the newly created folder.

The format of the file is like that:

[SETTINGS]

GeneralBackground=COLOR_WINDOW
GeneralTextColor=COLOR_WINDOWTEXT

FileListBackground=COLOR_WINDOW
FileListTextColor=COLOR_WINDOWTEXT

FileListFocusedColor1=COLOR_BTNFACE
FileListFocusedColor2=COLOR_BTNFACE

FileListFocusedFrame=COLOR_BTNFACE


FileListFocusedFrame=120,120,255

FileListSelectedColor1=30,30,110
FileListSelectedColor2=130,130,255
FileListSelectedTextColor=255,255,255
FileListSelectedColumnColor=250,250,250

FileListDirSizeBarColor=255,199,120

FileListTileBarActive=COLOR_ACTIVECAPTION
FileListTileBarTarget=COLOR_INACTIVECAPTION
FileListTileBarNormal=COLOR_BTNFACE

The names of the values are meaningful enough I think. The values may be the RGB colour (like 255,255.255 which means: white), or the system-standard colour names. This is the list of those possible colour names:

COLOR_SCROLLBAR
COLOR_BACKGROUND
COLOR_ACTIVECAPTION
COLOR_INACTIVECAPTION
COLOR_MENU
COLOR_WINDOW
COLOR_WINDOWFRAME
COLOR_MENUTEXT
COLOR_WINDOWTEXT
COLOR_CAPTIONTEXT
COLOR_ACTIVEBORDER
COLOR_INACTIVEBORDER
COLOR_APPWORKSPACE
COLOR_HIGHLIGHTTEXT
COLOR_BTNFACE
COLOR_BTNSHADOW
COLOR_GRAYTEXT
COLOR_BTNTEXT
COLOR_INACTIVECAPTIONTEXT
COLOR_BTNHIGHLIGHT
 

After changing a skin's settings, you must choose command: tools\options\re-read options, to make the changes visible.

Copyright Konrad Papala; [ACB::Help Online]