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I will like to load a skin from the resource of my application instead a file. How can I do that?.
I created a special resource section ("SKIN") with two components IDR_SKIN_AQUA and IDR_SKIN_BLACKDIAMOND. At the end I would like to create a special skin, but I do not want released it as a separate file (.skin).
The next function load skin from file.

pPM->m_Skin.SearchAndLoadSkinFile( _T("Aqua.Skin"), false )


Maybe you just need to add another function such as


pPM->m_Skin.LoadSkinResource( IDR_SKIN_AQUA)


Thanks.
Alfonso

It is not difficult to load a binary .SKIN file from resources. We assume you inserted a binary .SKIN file as a custom type resource named "SKIN" using the IDR_SKIN_AQUA resource identifier. The following code loads the Aqua skin:

bool bInstallSimplePM = true;
CExtPaintManagerSkin * pPM = new CExtPaintManagerSkin;
CExtResourceManager::CExtResourceMemoryBuffer _SkinData;
    if( g_ResourceManager->LoadResourceBuffer(
            _SkinData,
            "SKIN",
            IDR_SKIN_AQUA // or IDR_SKIN_BLACK_DIAMOND
            )
        )
    {
        CMemFile _file;
        _file.Attach( _SkinData.GetBuffer(), _SkinData.GetSize() );
        _file.Seek( 0, CFile::begin );
        if( pPM->m_Skin.SerializeFile(
                _file,
                false,
                false
                )
            )
        {
            // IF WE ARE HERE, SKIN DATA WERE LOADED SUCCESSFULLY
            bInstallSimplePM = false;
            g_PaintManager.InstallPaintManager( pPM );
        }
    }
    if( bInstallSimplePM )
    {
        // IF WE ARE HERE, THEN THE SKIN DATA WAS NOT LOADED SUCCESSFULLY
        //::AfxMessageBox( _T("Failed to load skin.") );
        delete pPM;
        g_PaintManager.InstallPaintManager( RUNTIME_CLASS(CExtPaintManager) );
    }

Thanks!