In the ToolAppearances class there are a few appearance properties where you can control the look of the tools.
Appearance - General appearance of the specific tool.
AppearanceOnMenu - Appearance of a tool when it is on a menu overrides the Appearance property.
AppearanceOnToolBar - Appearance of the tool when it is on the toolbar.
HotTrackAppearance - Appearance of the tool as you mouse over.
HotTrackAppearanceOnMenu - Appearance of the tool as you mouse over the tool when it is on a menu.
HotTrackAppearanceOnToolBar - Appearance of the tool as you mouse over the tool when it is on a toolbar.
PressedAppearance - Appearance of the tool when it is clicked on.Good for State buttons
PressedAppearanceOnMenu - Appearance of the menu tool when it is clicked on.
PressedAppearanceOnToolbar - Appearance of the toolbar tool when it is clicked on.
Right click on the UltraToolBarsManager and choose Customize.
In the tool tab choose one of your button tools.
Open the SharedProps class then in the AppearanceSmall or AppearancesLarge property you will see all the above properties.
Set some properties on each of them to see the different effects that you can achieve.
In Visual Basic:
Imports Infragistics.Win ... Private Sub Change_a_Tools_Appearance_Load(ByVal sender As System.Object, _ ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load Me.UltraToolbarsManager1.Toolbars(0).Tools(2).SharedProps.AppearancesSmall. _ AppearanceOnToolbar.BackColor = Color.Beige Me.UltraToolbarsManager1.Toolbars(0).Tools(2).SharedProps.AppearancesSmall. _ HotTrackAppearance.BackColor = Color.Blue End Sub
In C#:
using Infragistics.Win;
...
private void Change_a_Tools_Appearance_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
this.ultraToolbarsManager1.Toolbars[0].Tools[2].SharedProps.AppearancesSmall.
AppearanceOnToolbar.BackColor = Color.Beige;
this.ultraToolbarsManager1.Toolbars[0].Tools[2].SharedProps.AppearancesSmall.
HotTrackAppearance.BackColor = Color.Blue;
}
