Skin class a better example please

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ivelin.peychev (IVELIN PEYCHEV) February 25, 2019, 10:37pm #1

Could we get a better example(s) here: https://developer.rhino3d.com/guides/rhinocommon/creating-a-skin/

I wish I could see more properties being changed, methods overridden:

Screenshot of the resulting window showing custom ApplicationName and MainIcon. Should the icon be embedded (encoded)? Can we use a filepath? What size should it be? What extension?
NoSplash overridden
colors changed. I can’t see a method for that in the api ( https://developer.rhino3d.com/api/RhinoCommon/html/T_Rhino_Runtime_Skin.htm)
a screenshot of the registry is the name of the key Scheme:myskin or is it a sub-key? It’s unclear.
Can we make the skin load without editing the shortcut? There should be an option somewhere in Rhino Options.
Python example could be very nice.

Thanks in advance.

Which DLLs do I need?

dale (Dale Fugier) February 25, 2019, 9:41pm #2

Hi @ivelin.peychev,

There is a decent sample in our developer samples repository on GitHub.

This is a screen show of the sample I mentioned above.

Embedded

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/desktop/uxguide/vis-icons

Sorry, I don’t know what this means.

You can change Rhino’s application colors using RhinoCommon.

Not that I know of.

A skin is a DLL - you’ll need C++ or C# to build one.

Hope this helps.

– Dale

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ivelin.peychev (IVELIN PEYCHEV) February 25, 2019, 9:59pm #3

You can compile (build) dlls and exes with ironpython.
What could be the difference?

This means I don’t want to see the splash. How to disable it?

dale (Dale Fugier) February 25, 2019, 10:37pm #4

Hi @ivelin.peychev,

I don’t know anything about building assemblies with IronPython - sorry.

If you don’t want a splash screen, just override Rhino.Runtime.Skin.ShowSplash and do nothing.

– Dale

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