In my one-and-only company-wide application that is used in-house by 10 users, I am wanting to spruce up my toolbars and the toolbar docking area to look more modern . I have bought an icon package, and use hot-tracking command buttons in custom toolbar containters. The individual toolbars look very nice, but... I need to change the background color of the area where the toolbars are docked. It is some boring grey color, and I want to make it a different color.

What happens is that the area that is not covered by my toolbars shows through, and simply does not look very professional.