SandBar Extensible Rendering

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There are three renderers included with SandBar; one that mimics Office 2003, one that mimics Office XP and one that mimics Visual Studio 2005. All of these renderers expose properties that allow you control over the colours they use as a base to draw with. The Office XP renderer lets you change the background and highlight colours, and the Office 2003 and Visual Studio 2005 renderers allow you to change the colours used to draw gradients and borders.

You can also inherit from these renderers or write your own from scratch to take complete control of the drawing process. Every part of the SandBar drawing process can be overridden and taken complete control of.

Figure 1 - The Office 2003 renderer with the Windows XP "Luna Olive" theme used.

Figure 2 - The Office 2003 renderer with the classic Windows colour scheme used.

Figure 3 - The Office 2003 renderer with the Windows XP "Luna Silver" theme used.

Figure 4 - The Office 2002 renderer with the classic Windows colour scheme used.

Figure 5 - The Office 2003 renderer with the Windows XP "Luna Blue" theme used.

Figure 6 - The Visual Studio 2005 renderer with the Windows XP "Luna Blue" theme used.