The FormatAppearance objects can be accessed through the control's FormatAppearances property. The FormatAppearance object changes the visual appearance of your data as listed:
The following screen shot shows the control's context menu with the FormatAppearance objects:
The FormatAppearance object supports the following properties and methods:
| Name | Description | |||
| BackColor | Specifies the element's background color. | |||
| Bold | Renders as bold text. | |||
| Font | Retrieves or sets the text's font. | |||
| FontSize | Indicates the size of the font to display the text. | |||
| ForeColor | Specifies the element's foreground color. | |||
| Gradient | Renders the text with a gradient color. | |||
| GradientMode | Indicates the gradient mode to be applied on text. | |||
| Italic | Renders as italic text. | |||
| Key | Indicates the key of the FormatAppearance object. | |||
| Name | Specifies the name of the FormatAppearance object to be displayed on the context menu. | |||
| Outline | Renders the text outlined with specified color. | |||
| OutlineSize | Indicates the size of the outline to be applied on text. | |||
| Shadow | Renders the text with a shadow of specified color. | |||
| ShadowOffset | Indicates the offset of the shadow to be applied on text. | |||
| ShadowSize | Indicates the size of the shadow to be applied on text. | |||
| StrikeOut | Specifies that the text should appear as strikeout. | |||
| ToolTip | Specifies the tooltip of the FormatAppearance object to be displayed when the cursor hovers the object. | |||
| Underline | Underlines the text. |