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In S60, skins have a greater impact on applications than in UIQ. Skins are automatically applied to menus, note and query dialogs, the control and status panes, the fast swap window. Other UI components may support skins, depending on whether the application is skin-aware, and the control is skin-enabled.

To make an application skin aware call:

BaseConstructL(CAknAppUi::EAknEnableSkin);

in the app UI’s ConstructL().In a skin-aware application, skins are applied to all standard S60 controls, for instance search boxes, list boxes and grids. If BaseConstructL() is not called with this parameter, only the controls mentioned in the first paragraph are drawn using skins.

To draw non-standard, custom controls and container controls using skins, you need to use the skin-drawing utility class AknsDraw- Utils (the Akns prefix stands for Avkon Skins). Before you can do this, you first need to get the currently active skin by calling Akns- Utils::SkinInstance(), and non-container controls also need to call AknsDrawUtils::ControlContext() to get the skin control context.