Other Pane The Other pane includes options such as the cursor appearance when it hovers over the state, the alpha level of the state, and themed element alpha. Cursor – Select from numerous types of cursors to use as the mouse is hovering over the current state. Alpha Level – The alpha level can be set from 0 to 2...
Overview of Styles, Presets, and Themes The Ultimate UI for Windows Forms controls and components offer several powerful, yet flexible means of changing their appearance. Application Styling Application Styling is a ground-breaking concept in Windows Forms development that allows developers and graphic designers t...
Personalizing Your Style Library The Application Style Library Properties dialog box allows you to tag your own Style Libraries with your own personal information. This information can include your name, copyright year, or even an end user license agreement, if you so desire. To access the Application Style Librar...
Properties Panel The Properties Panel is where you modify several types of appearance properties. The Properties Panel is actually a shared container where the Component Role Editor, Shared Object Role Editor, UI Role Editor, and Resource Editor reside. Depending on which role you select in the Role tree, a differ...
Resources Pane With the Resources pane, you can add resources to states, as well as convert states into resources. Plus and Minus buttons – Click the Plus button to add a resource to a state. Click the Minus button to remove a resource from a state. See Applying a Resource to a State for more information. Up and D...
Resources The Resources tab in the Style Explorer allows you to manage all the resources that are currently stored in your Style Library. Resources are helpful containers of style information that you can apply to any state of any UI Role. Through the Resources tab, you can click the following buttons to add and r...
Ribbon Canvas View all of your styling modifications that involve the Ribbon in the Ribbon canvas. The canvas shows the Ribbon in several common configurations that you might encounter in your own application. You will find the following controls on the Ribbon canvas: WinToolbarsManager (contains the Ribbon and Mi...
Role Editor Once you have found the specific UI Role that you would like to style, the UI Role Editor comes into play. Selecting any UI Role, either by using keyboard shortcuts in the Canvas area or by clicking one in the Style Explorer tree, will display the UI Role Editor at the bottom of the AppStylist for Wind...
Roles The Role tree helps you to navigate the different types of roles that Application Styling offers. These roles play a pivotal part in styling your applications as every one of them contains some sort of appearance change that can affect the look of your application. UI Roles UI Roles are named for the role th...
Sample Style Libraries AppStylist for Windows Forms ships with ten custom Style Libraries. Each of these Style Libraries was designed by Infragistics Visual Design team. These Style Libraries were created to demonstrate the full styling capabilities of AppStylist in various scenarios. To use the sample Style Libra...