 
     /**
      *  The skin part that defines the appearance of the 
-     *  control bar in the container.
+     *  control bar area of the container.
+     *  By default, the PanelSkin class defines the control bar area to appear at the bottom 
+     *  of the content area of the Panel container with a grey background. 
      *
      *  @see spark.skins.spark.PanelSkin
      *  

    [ArrayElementType("mx.core.IVisualElement")]
    
    /**
     *  The set of items that become the content of
     *  the controlBarGroup
     *  
     *  @langversion 3.0
     *  @playerversion Flash 10

    //---------------------------------- 
    
    /**
     *  Defines the layout of the control bar area of the container.
     *
     *  @default HorizontalLayout
     *  
     *  @langversion 3.0
     *  @playerversion Flash 10
