Paint Styles and Appearance Customization
Skinning Support
Our Navigation Bar control fully supports the DevExpress Skinning Engine and thus provides numerous unique look and feel styles. 
Windows Theme Support
The XtraNavBar provides three paint styles that use Windows Theme painting. These are the XPExplorerBarView emulating the Windows Explorer Bar, plus the XP1View and XP2View views which are Side Bars. Additionally, you can make use of the AdvExplorerBarView that also emulates the explorer bar but doesn't use system painting, though it does provide appropriate reactions to system palette changes. This lets you bring the XP look and feel into applications that are not running under XP!
Customizable Styles for Every XtraNavBar Element In Every State
The main benefits provided by the XtraNavBar's style technology include:
- The ability to specify common styles for particular element types (groups and items);
- Hot and disabled styles are supported for groups and items;
- Customizable styles for each individual group or item;
- Gradient filling for element backgrounds;
- Custom styles for hints;
- A flexible style inheritance mechanism allowing you to reuse style settings in multiple elements and change the appearance of all these elements at once.
Alpha Blending and Background Images
The alpha blending and background images support introduced by the XtraNavBar enables you to incorporate really unique user interfaces into your applications. You can either provide a common background image for the control or specify custom backgrounds for each individual group. Once images are set, you can control each individual element's transparency level and this even includes gradient transparency!
Custom Painting for Every XtraNavBar Element
As with any other Developer Express control, we allow you to paint every element manually for each state. Thus, you can custom paint the following elements:
- The control's background;
- Each particular group's background or the entire client area;
- Group headers in each state;
- Links in each state;
- And even hints!
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