How do you skin apps?

My studio was planning to make a small desktop top that can read rss, and want to have it skinned.

(Like Nanika/Kawari/SSP...etc
example here http://ssp.shillest.net/ )

I've looking into SkinCrafter, price is not issue but it's somehow bloated for a small app.

Any alternatives do this job?

It's actually quite simple but to make it even easier here is a nice class to do it for you : http://www.codeproject.com/dialog/skinstyle.asp

Ah, thanks, useful indeed.

Just checked some skin libraries as they're mostly feature-bloated, this onr should do the job I want.

I remember seeing some code floating around on these boards some time ago that could skin a blitzmax GUI app as well... Creating non-rectangular window shapes without borders.

I've previously used Chris C's (Windows-only) approach from this thread: http://blitzbasic.com/Community/posts.php?topic=62753
TomToad is hosting the needed zip file: http://blitzbasic.com/Community/posts.php?topic=66165#739445
This may be what xlsior mentioned.

Thanks, I found yan's code and found it very useful, exactly what I want to achieve in BlitzMax.

Thanks for the helps.

Yup, that was the one.