Background Pane The Background properties determine what the background of the UI Role state will look like, including background fill, background image, disabled color, and alpha level. Background Fill – You can fill the background of a state with a solid color, gradient, or hatch pattern. When Gradient or Hatch ...
Border Pane The Border properties determine what the border of the UI Role state will look like, including Border, Border 3D, and Alpha. Border – The Border button allows you to choose what color the border of the state will be. The border can also appear transparent by clicking the Transparent button at the top o...
Canvas The canvas is a visual demonstration of how your style would look in a real application. All changes to UI Role appearance properties are reflected in the canvas area. The canvas is divided into nine tabbed areas (ten if you count the Start page which is technically not a canvas), each area displaying a con...
Changing StyleSets at Run Time If you would like to give the end user a choice between different styles created in AppStylist®, you will need to change StyleSets. You can either change a StyleSet at design time or run time. To change a StyleSet at design time, use the StyleSetName property of any Infragistics cont...
Converting a State into a Resource When styling a UI Role, you will most likely create a style that you want to apply to other UI Roles. Rather than recreating the style on several different states, you can convert the style into a Resource, which can then be applied to any other state of any UI Role. To convert a...
Create a User Control to apply StyleSets at runtime Before You Begin If you have ever found yourself writing code to allow your end-users to select styles at runtime, you may have noticed that you may have been repeating code across your Infragistics powered Windows Forms applications. Encapsulating this logic wit...
Creating a Style Library from a Template You can create a Style Library from scratch with vibrant colors and versatility in a matter of minutes with the New Style Library From Template dialog box. All you need to get started is a previously created Infragistics Style Library (.isl) file. Just pick a base color for...
Creating a Style Library If you need to make several Style Libraries for one or more applications, you will need to create a new Style Library. If you have just launched AppStylist for Windows Forms, you will see a Start page. In the Open Recent section of the Start page, you can create a new Style Library by clic...
Creating a StyleSet A single Style Library can contain multiple StyleSets that apply to any number of Infragistics controls. You can create a StyleSet for only WinGrid or you can create one that applies to both WinGrid and WinTree. You can also base a StyleSet on a previously created StyleSet. When basing a StyleS...
DockManager Canvas View all of your styling modifications that involve the WinDockManager component in the DockManager canvas. The canvas shows the WinDockManager component in several common configurations that you might encounter in your own application. You will find the following controls/components on the Dock...