property Items.PopupAppearance as MenuBorderEnum
Retrieves or sets the popup's appearance.

TypeDescription
MenuBorderEnum A MenuBorderEnum expression that specifies the popup's frame 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. The list/hierarchy, scrollbars 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
By default, the PopupAppearance property is specified by the control's Appearance property. The PopupAppearance specifies a different visual appearance for the current submenu. The SubMenu property determines the items to be displayed on the popup item. The BackColor property specifies the solid color / visual appearance to be shown on the items' background ( inside borders ). The BackgroundExt property indicates additional colors, text, images that can be displayed on the items's background using the EBN string format. When using EBN appearance, using the PopupAppearance, LocalAppearance or Appearance, the distance between margins/borders and items client area is indicated by the client object of the skin/ebn object.

The appearance of the popup is determined by the following:

The following screen shot shows the sub-menu with different appearances:

(single appearance)

(shadow appearance)

(ebn appearance)

(ebn appearance)