Create data driven skin about gwork HOT 3 OPEN

Another feature that would be neat is actually per-element skin. For example right now if I want to have a red progress bar and a blue progress bar, it is not really possible since they are forced to use the same skin.

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Skins might also be rendered using an API like nanovg, doesn't have to be a 9 segment texture.

First of all a bit of tidying up is necessary as some things are hardcoded into the controls.

I'm not likely to get round to doing anything on this for while. It is open source, so if you'd like to contribute, perhaps start an issue, I can help with any clarification, and we can make some progress. A lot of the controls in this library have quite advanced functionality compared to other GUI libraries (tree control, multi-line edit, etc). It could be so much better with skinning separated.

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I will come back to this later if someone else has not because I will need more advanced skinning functionality. First I need to get the MVP (minimum viable product) of my game finished.

Having a separate API for skins seems like a good idea to me as well, and it might fit nicely between the existing rendering backends and the GUI elements.

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