I have had similar problems. On the other hand, if you also define your colors using the appropriate Windows color settings for everything that's in that portion of your form, you can end up with some R:BASE forms that change very nicely as Windows themes are changed.
I have a form with custom wallpaper, start color ActiveCaption, stop color White, that looks different on each workstation. But the fonts are always set to be atop something with an appropriate contrasting color. Maybe we should ask for an enhancement in 9.0 that Font color controls expose more Windows colors, for example MenuText, WindowText, CaptionText, BtnText, HighlightText, InactiveCaptionText, and InfoText. Bill On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 12:33 PM, Kenny Camp <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 >
