property ExplorerBar.Appearance as AppearanceEnum
Specifies 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. The groups and the list of items are always shown in the control's client area. The skin may contain transparent objects, and so you can define round corners. The frame.ebn file contains such of objects. Use the eXButton's Skin builder to view or change this file

Use the Appearance property to specify the control's border. Use the GroupAppearance property to specify the appearance for the groups. Use the BackColorGroup and BackColorGroup2 properties to specify the background colors for the groups. Use the BackColor property to specify the control's background color. Use the ForeColor property to specify the control's foreground color. Use the Font property to specify the control's font. Use the Image property to assign a picture to an item. Use the Image property to assign a picture to a group.

The following VB sample changes the visual aspect of the borders of the control ( please check the above picture for round corners ):

With ExplorerBar1
    .BeginUpdate
        .VisualAppearance.Add &H16, "c:\temp\frame.ebn"
        .Appearance = &H16000000
        .BackColor = RGB(250, 250, 250)
    .EndUpdate
End With

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

With AxExplorerBar1
    .BeginUpdate()
    .VisualAppearance.Add(&H16, "c:\temp\frame.ebn")
    .Appearance = &H16000000
    .BackColor = Color.FromArgb(250, 250, 250)
    .EndUpdate()
End With

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

axExplorerBar1.BeginUpdate();
axExplorerBar1.VisualAppearance.Add(0x16, "c:\\temp\\frame.ebn");
axExplorerBar1.Appearance = (EXEXPLORERBARLib.AppearanceEnum)0x16000000;
axExplorerBar1.BackColor = Color.FromArgb(250, 250, 250);
axExplorerBar1.EndUpdate();

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

m_explorerBar.BeginUpdate();
m_explorerBar.GetVisualAppearance().Add( 0x16, COleVariant( "c:\\temp\\frame.ebn" ) );
m_explorerBar.SetAppearance( 0x16000000 );
m_explorerBar.SetBackColor( RGB(250,250,250) );
m_explorerBar.EndUpdate();

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

with thisform.ExplorerBar1
    .BeginUpdate
        .VisualAppearance.Add(0x16, "c:\temp\frame.ebn")
        .Appearance = 0x16000000
        .BackColor = RGB(250, 250, 250)
    .EndUpdate
endwith