Customizing the Overall Component Appearance

You can quickly customize the appearance of the spreadsheet component by applying a "skin" to it. A skin is simply a collection of appearance properties that apply to an entire component or to an individual sheet such as colors, grid lines, and whether to show headers. This saves you the time and effort of setting the properties individually. Spread includes several built-in skins that are ready for you to use. You can also create your own custom skin and save it so that you can use it in other Spread components for a common format. These tasks relate to setting the appearance of the overall component:

• Setting the Component to the Original Appearance
• Applying a Skin to the Component
• Creating a Custom Skin for a Component
• Applying a Skin to a Sheet
• Creating a Custom Skin for a Sheet
• Saving and Loading a Skin
• Creating and Applying a Style for Cells

See Also

Customizing the Sheet Appearance

Customizing the Dimensions of the Component

Customizing the Individual Sheet Appearance

Customizing the Appearance of a Cell

Creating and Applying a Style for Cells

Using Conditional Formatting of Cells

Customizing the Display of the Pointer

Customizing the User Interface Images

Using XP Themes with the Component

Customizing the Renderers

Handling Right-to-Left Layouts

Customizing Painting of Parts of the Component

Text Rendering with GDI

Applying Theme to Customize the Appearance