Skinable interfaces

Some applications need fancy things like rounded (or other exotic format) buttons, LEDs that glow, and other full graphical widgets, that are difficult to emulate with the regular Tk widgets. Think of Winamp(TM) or other mpeg3 sound players. Here is my try on that: A customizable set of widgets drawn on a canvas. Its behaviour is very primitive yet, but enough for my needs. I used it in my VebKlaso Player, http ://vebklaso.com , a online synchronized audio presentation system. There is a pdf User's Manual at the site.

Read more about it at http://pragana.net/skin.html. You may download the package at https://web.archive.org/web/20060502095646/pragana.net/Skin-0.1.tar.gz http://pragana.net/Skin-0.1.tar.gz . Save it and read the short README file enclosed. Here are a couple screenshots of the player with custom interface:

https://web.archive.org/web/20060502095646im_/pragana.net/images/vkplayer1-small.jpg https://web.archive.org/web/20060502095646im_/pragana.net/images/vkplayer2-small.jpg


Category GUI