                          ActiveSkin Control 2.0 
                  Copyright (C) 1999 SoftShape Development
                       e-mail: dmitry@softshape.com

                            All Rights Reserved

CONTENTS
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1. OVERVIEW
2. REGISTRATION
3. INSTALLATION
4. CONTACT INFORMATION


1. OVERVIEW
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ActiveSkin is an ActiveX component that allows you to change completely the
visual appearance of your project's forms.
This powerful technology provides: non-rectangular windows, semitransparency,
soft shadows, animation, morphing, powerful positioning system, script
language and much more.
So, it is possible now to make your program look like any program from MacOS,
BeOS, Unix or Winamp or even much better.
Package includes a wide variety of skins created by the professional
designers.

2. REGISTRATION
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ActiveSkin is shareware. You must read and accept the terms detailed
in the license.txt file before you can use this software.
To order the ActiveSkin, please go to the following URL:

   https://www.regnow.com/softsell/nph-softsell.cgi?item=2037-1

3. INSTALLATION
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ActiveSkin can be installed using following steps below:

  1) Create a directory for the ActiveSkin, e.g., C:\ActiveSkin
  2) Unzip the package into this directory
  3) Install the ActiveSkin component into your system registry

     - by double-clicking on Install.bat 

       or

     - by entering the following command line:
       regsvr32 ActiveSkin.ocx

  4) IMPORTANT!

  To minimize the size of delivery package of ActiveSkin
  Visual Basic runtime files were excluded.

  In order to run SkinBuilder and other samples without
  Visual Basic 6 installed, you have to download
  VB runtime files and some OCX's from:

  http://www.softshape.com/download/vbrun.zip

  Unpack these files to your windows system folder.

4. UNINSTALLATION
=================

ActiveSkin can be uninstalled using following steps below:

  1) Remove ActiveSkin control data from registry 

     - by double-clicking on Uninstall.bat 

       or

     - by entering the following command line:
       regsvr32 ActiveSkin.ocx -u

  2) Delete the folder that contains ActiveSkin files, if you wish


5. CONTACT INFORMATION
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    Comments, questions and suggestions regarding ActiveSkin can be directed
by e-mail to dmitry@softshape.com

SoftShape Development,
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May 1999
