property ComboBox.Appearance as AppearanceEnum

Retrieves or sets the control's appearance.

TypeDescription
AppearanceEnum An AppearanceEnum expression that indicates the control's appearance, or a color expression whose last 7 bits in the high significant byte of the value indicates the index of the skin in the Appearance collection, being displayed as control's borders. For instance, if the Appearance = 0x1000000, indicates that the first skin object in the Appearance collection defines the control's border.  The Client object in the skin, defines the client area of the control's label. The edit control or the drop down button are always shown in the control's client area. The skin may contain transparent objects, and so you can define round corners. The normal.ebn file contains such of objects. Use the eXButton's Skin builder to view or change this file.

Use the Appearance property to change the appearance of the control. Use the DropDownBorder property to change the border of the drop down portion of the control. Use the HeaderAppearance property to change the control's header bar appearance. Use the Alignment property to specify the alignment of the drop down portion of the control. Use the Style property to specify the control's style. Use the Add method to add new skins to the control. Use the BackColorEdit property to specify the background color of the control's edit box.

The following picture, shows the frame of the control before running the sample, and after running the sample, using the skin:

The following VB sample changes the visual aspect of the borders of the control: 

With ComboBox1
    .BeginUpdate
        .VisualAppearance.Add &H16, "c:\temp\normal.ebn"
        .Appearance = &H16000000
        .BackColorEdit = RGB(250, 250, 250)
    .EndUpdate
End With

The following VB.NET sample changes the visual aspect of the borders of the control:

With AxComboBox1
    .BeginUpdate()
    .VisualAppearance.Add(&H16, "c:\temp\normal.ebn")
    .Appearance = &H16000000
    .BackColorEdit = Color.FromArgb(250, 250, 250)
    .EndUpdate()
End With

The following C# sample changes the visual aspect of the borders of the control: 

axComboBox1.BeginUpdate();
axComboBox1.VisualAppearance.Add(0x16, "c:\\temp\\normal.ebn");
axComboBox1.Appearance = (EXCOMBOBOXLib.AppearanceEnum)0x16000000;
axComboBox1.BackColorEdit = Color.FromArgb(250, 250, 250);
axComboBox1.EndUpdate();

The following C++ sample changes the visual aspect of the borders of the control: 

m_comboBox.BeginUpdate();
m_comboBox.GetVisualAppearance().Add( 0x16, COleVariant( "c:\\temp\\normal.ebn" ) );
m_comboBox.SetAppearance( 0x16000000 );
m_comboBox.SetBackColorEdit( RGB(250,250,250) );
m_comboBox.EndUpdate();

The following VFP sample changes the visual aspect of the borders of the control: 

with thisform.ComboBox1
    .BeginUpdate
        .VisualAppearance.Add(0x16, "c:\temp\normal.ebn")
        .Appearance = 0x16000000
        .BackColorEdit = RGB(250, 250, 250)
    .EndUpdate
endwith