I agree completely, I did the same thing after seeing my applications in Pink.
Kenny From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of [email protected] Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 2009 5:50 PM To: RBASE-L Mailing List Subject: [RBASE-L] - A warning about using Windows colors I've said it before, going to repeat it again. Just got back from a client where 2 people had changed their Windows XP desktop "appearance" from the default. As a result, my default-values Group Bar menu was an unreadable navy blue text on a black background! Runs perfectly fine on the other computers there who had not changed the desktop appearance. I had not changed the defaults on the "colors" tab of the groups: Border color BtnHighlight Caption color Highlight Text I had to change the "caption color" to White. This is the background color of the group header box. Now my navy blue text shows up fine on the white box. Works with all XP appearances I selected. I have no idea what the "border color" is -- I changed it to Lime and don't see any green anywhere. Anyone know? So just a reminder -- in any place in your forms that you are using a "windows" type of color (btnFace, btnHighlight....) rather than a regular old "red, silver, blue, green....or custom", you're taking a risk that a user changing the desktop appearance will change your form colors! As I make changes to forms, I think I'm going to go through my controls and change them to an actual color. Karen
