Heres my tuturial on making your game skinabble.. IE users can download other skins...Or in an engines case the creators can make there own skins as well.
First you need to make folder called temp.. You could call it Skin or gui or whatever but dont forget to change the code if you do.
Then you need to put all your gui's pictures into /temp ... (This is also if you still use the standard mirage setup... If not make sure to edit out anything you no longer have and edit in anything you have added.
The files should be
Button_buy.bmp
Button_cancel.bmp
button_connect.bmp
button_create.bmp
button_credits.bmp
button_delchar.bmp
button_delete.bmp
button_exit.bmp
button_login.bmp
button_new.bmp
button_newchar.bmp
button_repair.bmp
button_train.bmp
buttong_usechar.bmp
ingame_itemfix.bmp
ingame_shop.bmp
ingame_training.bmp
mainscreen.bmp
the mirage gui (You will see why i sperated these later)
inbtn_exit.bmp
inbtn_inv.bmp
inbtn_spells.bmp
inbtn_trade.bmp
inbtn_train.bmp
inbtn_who.bmp
gui.bmp
Now you need to go through each form and make it call its gui. Also make sure you set the picture to none instead of a bitmap or it wont call your outside one.
frmChars:
frmChars.Picture = LoadPicture(App.Path + "\Temp\mainscreen.bmp")
picUseChar.Picture = LoadPicture(App.Path + "\Temp\button_usechar.bmp")
picNewChar.Picture = LoadPicture(App.Path + "\Temp\button_newchar.bmp")
picDelChar.Picture = LoadPicture(App.Path + "\Temp\button_delchar.bmp")
picCancel.Picture = LoadPicture(App.Path + "\Temp\button_cancel.bmp")
frmCredits:
frmCredits.Picture = LoadPicture(App.Path + "\Temp\mainscreen.bmp")
picCancel.Picture = LoadPicture(App.Path + "\Temp\button_Cancel.bmp"
frmDeleteAccount:
frmDeleteAccount.Picture = LoadPicture(App.Path + "\Temp\mainscreen.bmp")
picCancel.Picture = LoadPicture(App.Path + "\Temp\button_Cancel.bmp")
picConnect.Picture = LoadPicture(App.Path + "\Temp\button_Connect.bmp")
frmLogin:
frmLogin.Picture = LoadPicture(App.Path + "\Temp\mainscreen.bmp")
picCancel.Picture = LoadPicture(App.Path + "\Temp\button_Cancel.bmp")
picConnect.Picture = LoadPicture(App.Path + "\Temp\button_Connect.bmp")
frmMainMenu:
frmMainMenu.Picture = LoadPicture(App.Path + "\Temp\mainscreen.bmp")
picNewAccount.Picture = LoadPicture(App.Path + "\Temp\button_new.bmp")
picDeleteAccount.Picture = LoadPicture(App.Path + "\Temp\button_delete.bmp")
picLogin.Picture = LoadPicture(App.Path + "\Temp\button_login.bmp")
picCredits.Picture = LoadPicture(App.Path + "\Temp\button_credits.bmp")
picQuit.Picture = LoadPicture(App.Path + "\Temp\button_exit.bmp")
frmNewAccount
frmNewAccount.Picture = LoadPicture(App.Path + "\Temp\mainscreen.bmp")
picCancel.Picture = LoadPicture(App.Path + "\Temp\button_Cancel.bmp")
picConnect.Picture = LoadPicture(App.Path + "\Temp\button_Connect.bmp")
frmNewChar
frmNewChar.Picture = LoadPicture(App.Path + "\Temp\mainscreen.bmp")
picCancel.Picture = LoadPicture(App.Path + "\Temp\button_Cancel.bmp")
picAddChar.Picture = LoadPicture(App.Path + "\Temp\button_Create.bmp")
frmTrade:
frmTrade.Picture = LoadPicture(App.Path + "\Temp\ingame_shop.bmp")
picCancel.Picture = LoadPicture(App.Path + "\Temp\button_Cancel.bmp")
picDeal.Picture = LoadPicture(App.Path + "\Temp\button_buy.bmp")
picFixItems.Picture = LoadPicture(App.Path + "\Temp\button_Repair.bmp")
frmTraining:
frmTraining.Picture = LoadPicture(App.Path + "\Temp\ingame_training.bmp")
picTrain.Picture = LoadPicture(App.Path + "\Temp\button_Train.bmp")
picCancel.Picture = LoadPicture(App.Path + "\Temp\button_Cancel.bmp")
Now this is where you learn stuff
You will notice i havnt included the frmmirage , frmsendgetdata and frmfixitem code!
Now what you have to do is from the code here setup the forms i havnt included....
Have fun :D
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