Hello,

Unlike the solution in the previous case, this cannot be done with a single property setting. UltraStatusPanels do not have hottracked appearance properties, nor does the UltraStatusPanel UI Role in AppStylist have a hot tracked state.

The best way to accomplish this is to add some code to change the normal appearance properties based on the MouseEnterElement/MouseLeaveElement events. First, you'll need to disable the UseOSThemes property:

ultraStatusBar1.UseOsThemes = DefaultableBoolean.False;

If UseOSThemes is set to true, Windows has control of the drawing and it doesn't care about the IG appearance settings.

Next, add some code to the aforementioned events:

private void ultraStatusBar1_MouseEnterElement(object sender, UIElementEventArgs e)
{
    if (e.Element is Infragistics.Win.UltraWinStatusBar.PanelUIElement)
    {
        UltraStatusPanel panel = e.Element.GetContext(typeof(UltraStatusPanel)) as UltraStatusPanel;
        panel.Appearance.BackColor = Color.Red;
    }
}

private void ultraStatusBar1_MouseLeaveElement(object sender, UIElementEventArgs e)
{
    if (e.Element is Infragistics.Win.UltraWinStatusBar.PanelUIElement)
    {
        UltraStatusPanel panel = e.Element.GetContext(typeof(UltraStatusPanel)) as UltraStatusPanel;
        panel.Appearance.BackColor = Color.Empty;
    }
}

Please try this out and let me know whether it works.