Use the ForeColor property to specify the control's foreground color. Use the <fgcolor> HTML tag to specify a different foreground color for portion of text in the panel. Use the Text property to assign a caption to a panel. Use the BackColor property to specify the control's background color.

The following VB sample shows "How do I change the control's foreground color":

With StatusBar1
	.BeginUpdate 
	.ForeColor = 7895160
	.VisualAppearance.Add 4,"c:\exontrol\images\border.ebn"
	.VisualAppearance.Add 5,"CP:4 1 1 -1 -1"
	.BackColorPanels = 83886080
	.Format = "1,2,3,4,(5/6/7/8)"
	.Debug = True
	.EndUpdate 
End With

The following VB.NET sample shows "How do I change the control's foreground color":

With AxStatusBar1
	.BeginUpdate 
	.ForeColor = Color.FromArgb(120,120,120)
	.VisualAppearance.Add 4,"c:\exontrol\images\border.ebn"
	.VisualAppearance.Add 5,"CP:4 1 1 -1 -1"
	.GetOcx().BackColorPanels = &H5000000
	.Format = "1,2,3,4,(5/6/7/8)"
	.Debug = True
	.EndUpdate 
End With

The following C++ sample shows "How do I change the control's foreground color":

/*
	Copy and paste the following directives to your header file as
	it defines the namespace 'EXSTATUSBARLib' for the library: 'ExStatusBar 1.0 Control Library'

	#import "D:\\Exontrol\\ExStatusBar\\project\\Debug\\ExStatusBar.dll"
	using namespace EXSTATUSBARLib;
*/
EXSTATUSBARLib::IStatusBarPtr spStatusBar1 = GetDlgItem(IDC_STATUSBAR1)->GetControlUnknown();
spStatusBar1->BeginUpdate();
spStatusBar1->PutForeColor(7895160);
spStatusBar1->GetVisualAppearance()->Add(4,"c:\\exontrol\\images\\border.ebn");
spStatusBar1->GetVisualAppearance()->Add(5,"CP:4 1 1 -1 -1");
spStatusBar1->PutBackColorPanels(83886080);
spStatusBar1->PutFormat(L"1,2,3,4,(5/6/7/8)");
spStatusBar1->PutDebug(VARIANT_TRUE);
spStatusBar1->EndUpdate();

The following C# sample shows "How do I change the control's foreground color":

axStatusBar1.BeginUpdate();
axStatusBar1.ForeColor = Color.FromArgb(120,120,120);
axStatusBar1.VisualAppearance.Add(4,"c:\\exontrol\\images\\border.ebn");
axStatusBar1.VisualAppearance.Add(5,"CP:4 1 1 -1 -1");
(axStatusBar1.GetOcx() as EXSTATUSBARLib.StatusBar).BackColorPanels = 0x5000000;
axStatusBar1.Format = "1,2,3,4,(5/6/7/8)";
axStatusBar1.Debug = true;
axStatusBar1.EndUpdate();

The following VFP sample shows "How do I change the control's foreground color":

with thisform.StatusBar1
	.BeginUpdate
	.ForeColor = 7895160
	.VisualAppearance.Add(4,"c:\exontrol\images\border.ebn")
	.VisualAppearance.Add(5,"CP:4 1 1 -1 -1")
	.BackColorPanels = 83886080
	.Format = "1,2,3,4,(5/6/7/8)"
	.Debug = .T.
	.EndUpdate
endwith