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Setting the Appearance of the Cool Bar

The cool bar component offers several useful configuration options. The table below lists some actions you can set to change a tool button's appearance:

Setting a cool button's appearance

To make the cool bar: | Set the toolbar's:
Resize automatically to accommodate the bands it contains | AutoSize property to True.
Bands maintain a uniform height | FixedSize property to True.
Reorient to vertical rather than horizontal | Vertical property to True. This changes the effect of the FixedSize property.
Prevent the Text properties of the bands from displaying at runtime | ShowText property to False. Each band in a cool bar has its own Text property.
Remove the border around the bar | BandBorderStyle to bsNone.
Keep users from changing the bands' order at runtime. (The user can still move and resize the bands.) | FixedOrder to True.
Create a background image for the cool bar | Bitmap property to TBitmap object.
Choose a list of images to appear on the left of any band | Images property to TImageList object.

To assign images to individual bands, select the cool bar and double-click on the Bands property in the Object Inspector. Then select a band and assign a value to its ImageIndex property.

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