Do you understand this patch of the interface control devaxpress WinForms skin editor?

Regular users may know , A few years ago, the official technical team thoroughly inspected WinForms Skin editor —— This new tool is now called “Skin Editor v2”, It is superior to its predecessor in all possible aspects .Skin Editor v2 Including the hierarchy of skin elements that are easier to find 、 Customizable labels 、 A series of very useful functions （ for example , You can Ctrl+ single click “ preview ” Any element in the panel to get a list of skin parts responsible for the appearance of a given element ）, Support vector skin and palette .

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The enhancements introduced in the updated skin editor have a drawback …… If your goal is to meet the standard DevExpress Slightly modify the skin , You have to create a duplicate skin , This means that you must import and register custom skins . Besides , This process will generate almost the same skin in the skin selector - Original skin and your custom skin . To eliminate duplicates , You must also modify these selectors （ for example , Hide standard “Bezier” Skin and replace it with the one created in the skin editor “My Bezier”）.

In order to eliminate these problems ,WinForm Skin editor (v21.1) With skin patch support , This skin patch is directly applied to the standard DevExpress List of visual changes to the skin , Skin patches eliminate generation for your project / Need to import custom skin .

How does this work ？

This is a good example of the skin patch use case ： In vector Office 2019 Dock panel title in skin .

If you find the panel title font is too large , You can add BarAndDockingController And in "Docking" Some fonts are set manually . But doing so means no matter how active the skin is , Your hard coded panel fonts will be activated .

You can now repair your skin , Replace hard coding or create a new skin , Start the skin editor and select "New Skin Patch" tab . Enter the patch name 、 Save the local storage folder and destination of the output DevExpress The skin .

Find the element you want to modify , single click "Activate" And edit the required / Appropriate settings . In this example , We need to reduce "Docking" The text size increment of some elements under the category .

The patch is saved as a single .skinpatch file , Save and pass SkinManager.Default.RegisterSkinPatch Method to store it locally 、 Import a stream or assembly into Visual Studio In the project .

namespace MyApp{
static class Program {
/// <summary>
/// The main entry point for the application.
/// </summary>
[STAThread]
static void Main() {
Application.EnableVisualStyles();
Application.SetCompatibleTextRenderingDefault(false);
SkinManager.Default.RegisterSkinPatch(Application.StartupPath +
"\\patches\\O2019C-Fonts.skinpatch");
//uncomment the following line to undo the skin patch
//SkinManager.Default.ResetSkin(SkinStyle.Office2019Colorful);
Application.Run(new MainForm());
}
}
}

The figure below shows the standard "Office 2019 Colorful" The skin , It contains a patch , You can increment the text size from 6 Reduce to 2.

You can go further and change more elements in the patch , For example, modify "Docking > Dock Panels > Caption Buttons" Element to reduce button fill and size , This will shrink the panel title to better fit your new title font .

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