Building Your First Skin
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As explained in greater detail in About Skins, a skin is defined in a skin definition file, and requires one or more supporting art files, Microsoft JScript files, and digital media files. This tutorial for a very simple skin requires only the skin definition file and three art files. You will go through four steps described in the following topics:
- Creating the Primary Art File
- Creating the Mapping File
- Creating the Hover Image
- Creating the Skin Definition File
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