Skinning controls to improve their appearance

You can enhance the appearance of faders, knobs, meters and LEDs by adding graphics to them. Altering the appearance will help a control fit into a color scheme that you have devised for your Kiosk2Go project.

In this section

Control graphics

Specifying the control graphics

Customizing the appearance of a combo box

See also

Adding a background color to the Kiosk2Go device

NWare controls supported by Kiosk2Go

Adding a combo box with page links

Displaying the value of a fader as a tooltip

How control aliases are used in Kiosk2Go

Adding context sensitive help to a Kiosk2Go control

Adding a logout button

Control graphics

Below is a table showing the graphics you will need for the different types of controls, along with some examples.

Control

Graphics required

Fader

Fader handle

Background

Knob

Value pointer (rotates as value changes)

Background image (fixed)

Image series (changes automatically as value increases)

Meter

Background image

LED

On image

Off image