GPS Skinner: GUI Skin Editor

Heres a much easier way to make your own GPS Skinner skins!

Synopsis

Skinning for GPS Skinner just got a whole lot easier! We are proudly present our first release of our GUI editor for making GPS Skinner skins.

Introduction

The Editor for GPS Skinner application should be pretty straight forward to use. Many of the options for objects within GPS Skinenr can be simply set up using drop down lists and tool tips give helpful explanations of the different options. We will write a full manual for it at a later date.

The main editing are - Many options have drop downs for easy selection. Preview colours are shown where applicable.
Tool tip area - Hovering the mouse over an cell in the main editing area will produce a tool tip giving additional help.
Skin code window - Clicking on a line in the skin code window will enable you to edit that line in the main editing area. If the line is within a page (ie its not a font, colour etc) the preview of the page will be displayed.
Add/Copy/Delete buttons - Use these buttons to add new objects or copy/delete existing ones.
Up/Down buttons - Use these buttons to move objects up and down (even between pages).
Save button - Any changes made in the main editing area must be saved to the skin code window or they will be lost.
"Magic" button - This is a context sensitive button. For example if you are editing a colour then pressing this will produce a colour browser dialog. While editing a font this button will show a font browser dialog.
Preview area - This area give a rough preview of the skin. The red area is the currently selected object for the current page.
File menu - The file menu allows you to open & save skins. You can also convert QVGA skins to VGA skins (and vice versa) here (does not scale background images yet!).

System Requirements

Editor for GPS Skinner is a Windows application, this means it runs on your PC and not your mobile device. It has been tested on Windows XP and Vista without any issue. It is written in C# using Microsoft .Net 2.0 - should you not already have the .Net framework please download it from this link; .Net Framework 2.0 (22mb)

Download & Install

Editor for GPS Skinner can be download from here; Zipped Executable for Windows PC

At the moment there is no fancy installer. To run the software, simply unzip the files in the zip archive file above to a suitable directory and then double click the file called "Editor for GPS Skinner.exe".

To remove the software from your system simply delete the directory where you unzipped the files.

Source Code

If you are interested or think you can improve on any aspects of Editor for GPS Skinner, drop me a line and I will send you the source code.