The characteristic of YiShow Skin

You can change the YiShow's GUI by replacing the Skin. Changeable interface includes:

1. Button
2. Title Bar
3. Build-in application's icon

Please note that the skin has to be complained with:

1. Only GUI's bitmap are changeable
2. Position and size are fixed
3. You can only use PalmOS v3.5's color palette

Making YiShow's Skin

Making a YiShow's Skin is similar to making a PRC file using you Palm development tools. We will show you how to make one with CodeWarrior. For reference please refer to the included YiShow's Skin Project that made for CodeWarrior for Palm OS v8.0. For resources editing, We're using Constructor for Palm OS 1.8.

YiShow's Skin is composed by many BitmapFamily and Bitmap. If you want to make your own skin, just simply replace those resources contain in the project and compile it again into new PRC file. Those changeable resource are shown in the following tables. For simplicity, we have only define BitmapFamily's ID, each ID correspond to the BitmapFamily can be self-defined by simply register the Bitmap to the right BitmapFamily.

YiShow Explorer v5.0's Skin support both low resolution, high resolution, 256-color and high color screen, button, etc resources. You only need to register all those resorces to the corresponding BitmapFamily, YiShow will use the right bitmap depends on the running environment.

• Each button resource is formed by a BitmapFamily.
• Each BitmapFamily is composed by one or more Bitmap resource.
• Bitmap resource is divided into normal density (for low resolution), double density (for high resolution), 256-color and high color.
• For example, the Copy button, if you want to support low-res 256-color and high-color, and also high-res 256-color and high-color, you have to register the corrsponding BitmapFamily with the following four Bitmap resources:

1. 256-color normal density Bitmap, YiShow will use this under low-res mode with 256-color.
2. High-color normal density Bitmap, YiShow will use this under low-res mode with high-color.
3. 256-color double density Bitmap, YiShow will use this under high-res mode with 256-color.
4. High-color double density Bitmap, YiShow will use this under high-res mode with high-color.

Please note the following when you making the skin:

1. The database name must be "YiShowSkin"
2. The creator name must be "YiSu"
3. The Type must be "skin"

**These properties are all set in the included project.

Download LowRes YiShow's Skin Sample Project

Download HiRes YiShow's Skin Sample Project

YiShow Skin BitmapFamily Resource Map

File Type Bitmap

Title Bar & Status Bar

Button