Thought you guys might be interested.
Have you ever tried skinning (as in creating skin) an application that requires you to have bits and pieces of graphics to form a bigger graphics. And, you are thinking, instead of pieces of graphics, it maybe easier for you to 'skin' the big graphics and then slice the pieces out. But it is PAIN to slice these graphics from a big chunk. For example, I've tried to skin the Eten dialer skin (more information here) and having to cut the pieces out of the 'bigger picture' is just not easy. Consider that I can do a quick job photoshopping the skins, slicing up the thing is SERIOUSLY PAINFUL. PhoneAlarm skin is much smaller but still painful if you were to change it frequently, or having duplicate skin with different colours.
See examples at the detail/download pageWritten in Java (sorry for being a Java program, I know many of you hate it, but it is much faster for me to work with Java). This program reads an XML file, for coordinates to slice up chunks of graphics from a larger graphics. Once you have the XML configuration file done, you can happily just skin the big picture and slice as many times as you want. So, now you can leave the slicing for while you go onto bigger things, like 'skinning'!
Details and downloads here.In the stage of GUI development, but not much respond. Hope to get more from here.
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