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Applying Pictures to Grid Elements
How to Use Styles > Applying Pictures to Grid Elements

In earlier versions of True DBGrid for WinForms, styles were used to specify font, color, and alignment attributes. This version extends the concept of styles to include background and foreground pictures, enabling adornments to be added to headers, footers, and caption bars, specify a background pattern for data cells, and render picture data in cells without having to populate a ValueItems object. The following properties of the Style object determine how pictures are displayed:

Property Description
BackgroundImage Sets/returns a style's background picture.
BackgroundPictureDrawMode Controls how a style's background picture is displayed.
ForegroundImage Sets/returns a style's foreground picture.
ForeGroundPicturePosition Controls how a style's foreground picture is positioned.

Since picture properties follow the same inheritance rules as other style attributes, any technique described earlier in this chapter also works with pictures. This means that pictures can be attached to a grid element using any of the following methods:

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