You can quickly customize the appearance of the spreadsheet component by applying a "skin" to it. A skin is simply a collection of appearance properties that apply to an entire component or to an individual sheet such as colors, grid lines, and whether to show headers. This saves you the time and effort of setting the properties individually. Spread includes several built-in skins that are ready for you to use. You can also create your own custom skin and save it so that you can use it in other Spread components for a common format.
For instructions on creating and applying your own skins, see Creating a Custom Skin for a Component.
For instructions on creating and applying your own cell-level styles, see Creating and Applying a Style for Cells.
For instructions on saving the skin to a file or stream, refer to Saving and Loading a Skin.
For information on customizing a skin in the Spread Designer, refer to explanation of the SpreadSkin editor in the Spread Designer Guide.
For more details about spread skins, refer to the SpreadSkin class.
Return to Customizing the Overall Component Appearance.
Using the SpreadSkin Editor
- If you want to create your own skin, follow the instructions provided in Creating a Custom Skin for a Component to create a skin and apply it. To apply a default skin to the entire spreadsheet component, follow these directions.
- In the Form window, click the Spread component for which you want to set the skin (or right click on the component and choose the Edit Skins menu).
- At the bottom of the Properties window, click the Edit Skins verb.
- In the SpreadSkin Editor, select one of the Pre-Defined skins in the list of predefined skins, then click OK to close the editor.
Using a Shortcut
- If you want to create your own skin, follow the instructions provided in Creating a Custom Skin for a Component to create a sheet skin and apply it. To apply a default sheet skin, follow these directions.
- Use the Apply method on the selected default skin (set by the property in the DefaultSkins object) to apply a specified default skin to a specific Spread component, collection of sheets, or sheet.
Example
This example code sets the component to use the Classic predefined skin.
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FarPoint.Win.Spread.DefaultSpreadSkins.Classic.Apply(fpSpread1); |
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FarPoint.Win.Spread.DefaultSpreadSkins.Classic.Apply(FpSpread1) |
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Using Code
- If you want to create your own skin, follow the instructions provided in Creating a Custom Skin for a Component to create a skin and apply it. To apply a default skin, follow these directions.
- Use the Apply method on the selected default skin (set by the property in the DefaultSpreadSkins object) to apply a specified default skin to a specific Spread component.
Example
This example code sets the first sheet to use the Classic predefined skin.
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// Create new SheetView object. FarPoint.Win.Spread.SheetView newsheet = new FarPoint.Win.Spread.SheetView(); // Apply a skin to the SheetView object. FarPoint.Win.Spread.DefaultSpreadSkins.Classic.Apply(newsheet); // Assign the SheetView object to the first sheet in the component. fpSpread1.Sheets[0] = newsheet; |
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' Create new SheetView object. Dim newsheet As New FarPoint.Win.Spread.SheetView() ' Apply a skin to the SheetView object. FarPoint.Win.Spread.DefaultSpreadSkins.Classic.Apply(newsheet) ' Assign the SheetView object to the first sheet in the component. FpSpread1.Sheets(0) = newsheet |
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Using the Spread Designer
- From the Settings menu, choose the Spread Skin icon.
- In the Spread Skin Editor, select one of the predefined skins from the Pre-Defined tab, or a saved custom skin from the Saved tab.
- Click OK to close the editor.
- From the File menu choose Apply and Exit to apply your changes to the component and exit Spread Designer.