is there any documentation on how to make a skin? I enjoy skinning apps and would like to make some forAvast
No, not yet… you’ll have to learn it the hardest possible way… digging into SoftShape’s ActiveSkin - SkinBuilder by yourself. That is exactly what I did… look at the results. 
Cheers !
never heard of that program, I’m used to winamp and windows media player skinning
The ActiveSkin package (v4.27) can be downloaded from http://cat.asw.cz/~vlk/as_v427.zip .
Hope this helps,
Vlk
is it freeware or shareware?
Well in fact it’s a programming component to be reused in other applications (like avast).
It comes with a SkinBuilder application, which is “complimentary” (the subject of license is the redistributable component).
We do have the commercial license of ActiveSkin so I believe as far as you use it to build avast skins, you’re covered by our license…
ok, sounds good, I saw somewhere you wanted a LCARS skin I’ll see what I can come up with meanwhile I made some Trek icons in the past link here
Cool. I think the folks around will be mad. 
BTW SZCraftec is probably the biggest avast skin expert, and I’m sure he’d be willing to provide help, if needed.
Thanks
Vlk
Thanks Ondrej… no problem, here I am…
btw, LCARS skin is alive… I’m so happy that I did it… so many avast! users contacts me and send me greetings and compliments for that skin… I didn’t even know how popular StarTrek is…
Cheers !
I wanted to find about more about “ActiveSkin - SkinBuilder”
But there is no information about it at this URL : http://www.softshape.com.
Does anyone have the proper URL ?
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OK, silly me.
I just clicked the “ActiveSkin news…” link : “Not available for the moment.”
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