When changing HueOffset in designer to a number that differs from 0 skinning refuses to work at runtime at all. That's weird that skinning works fine meanwhile in designer when showing Delphi dialogs and takes into account the mentioned HueOffset.
The situation can be reproduced simply – create a form, configure sSkinManager with a skin (i.e. Shine). Changing HueOffset to, say, 120 make skinning turn off when running. The existence of sSkinProvider on the form doesn't fix the problem.
Delphi 7. Alpha Copntrols Release 7.28. I had last year release before that and when updating I found old skins not working, so now I work with new ones.
I wonder if anybody can reproduce the problem on last AlphaControls releases. The poperty worked in some older versions.
P.S. Sorry I should have posted the messasge to “Tricks” branch but now can't see any way to remove it from here.