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ScrollBarOptions.BackColor Property

Gets or sets the background color of scroll bars.

Namespace: DevExpress.XtraCharts

Assembly: DevExpress.XtraCharts.v24.1.dll

NuGet Package: DevExpress.Charts

Declaration

[XtraSerializableProperty]
public Color BackColor { get; set; }

Property Value

Type Description
Color

A Color value which represents the background color of scroll bars.

Property Paths

You can access this nested property as listed below:

Object Type Path to BackColor
XYDiagramPaneBase
.ScrollBarOptions .BackColor

Remarks

A Scroll bar’s appearance is determined by its BackColor, ScrollBarOptions.BarColor, ScrollBarOptions.BorderColor and ScrollBarOptions.BarThickness properties.

Note

If the BackColor property is set to Empty, the background color is obtained from the appearance settings (a chart’s appearance is specified via its ChartControl.AppearanceName property).

The following images demonstrate the BackColor property in action.

BackColor isn’t defined

(the default value)

BackColor = Color.Yellow

barColor_default

BarBackColor_Yellow

For more information on customizing the scroll bars, refer to Panes.

Example

This example demonstrates how the appearance of a pane‘s scroll bar can be customized.

Note that for a pane, it’s possible to individually adjust the position and visibility of its X and Y-axis’ scroll bars.

ScrollBarOptions scrollBarOptions = diagram.DefaultPane.ScrollBarOptions;

scrollBarOptions.BackColor = Color.White;
scrollBarOptions.BarColor = Color.Blue;
scrollBarOptions.BorderColor = Color.Navy;
scrollBarOptions.BarThickness = 15;
scrollBarOptions.XAxisScrollBarAlignment = ScrollBarAlignment.Far;
scrollBarOptions.XAxisScrollBarVisible = true;
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