property Edit.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. The lines, scrollbars 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 Add method to add new skins to the control. Use the BackColor property to specify the control's background color. Use the Background(exToolTipAppearance) property indicates the visual appearance of the borders of the tooltips.

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

With Edit1
        .VisualAppearance.Add &H16, "c:\temp\frame.ebn"
        .Appearance = &H16000000
        .BackColor = RGB(250, 250, 250)
End With

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

With AxEdit1
    .VisualAppearance.Add(&H16, "c:\temp\frame.ebn")
    .Appearance = &H16000000
    .BackColor = Color.FromArgb(250, 250, 250)
End With

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

axEdit1.VisualAppearance.Add(0x16, "c:\\temp\\frame.ebn");
axEdit1.Appearance = (EXEDITLib.AppearanceEnum)0x16000000;
axEdit1.BackColor = Color.FromArgb(250, 250, 250);

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

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

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

with thisform.Edit1
        .VisualAppearance.Add(0x16, "c:\temp\frame.ebn")
        .Appearance = 0x16000000
        .BackColor = RGB(250, 250, 250)
endwith