property ExContextMenu.LocalAppearance as MenuBorderEnum
Retrieves or sets the local popup's appearance.

TypeDescription
MenuBorderEnum A MenuBorderEnum expression that specifies the local's frame appearance, or a color expression whose last 7 bits in the high significant byte of the value indicates the index of the skin in the Appearance collection, being displayed as control's borders. For instance, if the Appearance = 0x1000000, indicates that the first skin object in the Appearance collection defines the control's border.  The Client object in the skin, defines the client area of the control. The list/hierarchy, scrollbars are always shown in the control's client area. The skin may contain transparent objects, and so you can define round corners. The normal.ebn file contains such of objects. Use the eXButton's Skin builder to view or change this file
By default, the LocalAppearance property is -1. The visual appearance of the local popup is specified by the control's Appearance property, while the LocalAppearance property is -1. The ShowLocalPopup property specifies whether the item's popup is shown as local. Clicking any item inside a local popup makes the popup itself to close including all its descendent sub-menus, without closing any ascendant sub-menus. The PopupAppearance specifies a different visual appearance for the current submenu. When using EBN appearance, using the PopupAppearance, LocalAppearance or Appearance, the distance between margins/borders and items client area is indicated by the client object of the skin/ebn object.

The following screen shot shows the sub-menu with different appearances:

(single appearance)

(shadow appearance)

(ebn appearance)

(ebn appearance)