How to: Customize a Skin for the Emulator

You might find it useful to perform detailed customization of your emulator image.

To create a customized skin for the emulator

  1. Create a .bmp file that shows the default appearance of the emulator skin.

  2. Create a .bmp file that shows the appearance of the emulator skin with all the buttons pressed.

  3. Create a .bmp file that shows the area, filled with a unique color, of each button.

    Note   If you want the appearance of each button to change independently of the other buttons in the emulator skin, use a different color to fill the area for each button. It is recommended that you do not use white or black to fill this area.

  4. Create an .xml file. For more information about what the .xml file needs to contain, see https://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/wcepb40/html/pbconemulatorskinxmlschema.asp.

  5. Save the three .bmp files and the .xml file to a single directory.

  6. Download an operating system image to the emulator. The Platform Manager 4.0 Configure Startup Server dialog box shows a listing of each skin found in its own directory from a semicolon-delimited list. This list is found under the Skins button of the PlatMan registry data collection in the emulator image.

See Also

Emulator

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