title: How to Skin an Win32 Application
body: <p>Win32 look nasty, how to make it look better by custom skins?</p>
  <p>I mean something like <em>Adobe products, iTunes, Autodesk 3dsmax and Softimage XSI, Windows media player, Blender, Comodo firewall, Winamp, Babylon client, and few download managers etc.</em>;</p>
  <p>there are many similar applications out there but I can't find any proper tutorial or guideline, it looks like secret recipe!</p>
  <p>only -two- tutorials available online:</p>
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  <p>old and useless: <a href="http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/20497/Draw-Skin-Window-Using-Pure-Win32-API" rel="noreferrer">http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/20497/Draw-Skin-Window-Using-Pure-Win32-API</a></p>
  <p>only cover opaque background (and this is what I avoid, I need more about GUI components):
  <a href="http://www.flipcode.com/archives/Win32_Window_Skinning.shtml" rel="noreferrer">http://www.flipcode.com/archives/Win32_Window_Skinning.shtml</a></p>
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  <p>Is there any <strong>book or proper guideline to learn how to build skins for Win32api?</strong></p>
  <p><em>Edit: I accept David Rodríguez comment, down there ↓↓</em></p>