Rotating widgets/subskins

I want to have a widget that is rotated as things happen in my game. Preferably this would happen so that just one subskin in a widget rotates, while others stay stationary.

I think the RotatingSkin subskin type is there for this purpose, but how do I use it? If I have read the API correctly, the Widget interface does not allow me to get to subskins, so I can never get a reference to the RotatingSkin object, neither is there anything on the Widget level for this. Is the only way implementing a new widget type that gets lower level control over the subskins?

I don't think the usage of RotatingSkins is covered by any demos, although I'd be more than happy to be proven wrong on this.

Any help would be appreciated.

Yeah, right now it is not shown in demos, but there is similar thing with access to subskin in Demo_Gui (ColourWindow.cpp).
Here's short example.
MyGUI::RotatingSkin* rotatingSkin = widgetWithProperMainSkin->getSubWidgetMain()->castType<MyGUI::RotatingSkin>();
rotatingSkin->setAngle(1.0);
getSubWidgetMain return first subskin in your skin, then you cast it to proper type.

Thank you, works beautifully.

Just confirming that my set up is OK: The rotating texture is between a background and a border on top. There's nothing I can do in the skin definition to place another subskin below the main skin, so I need to have the background on a parent widget, add a child widget into that, with the rotating subskin as the first one defined. Is that correct?

A feature suggestion: It would in general be very nice if you could specify the layer a subskin is placed on, as an attribute to the BasisSkin element.

I suggest you just make skin for background on simple Widget and then attach another Widget (with skin that have single rotatingsubskin) over it.