Found the problem, had to use 'focuscolor', which I could not find, just tried it and worked. Tom
________________________________ From: TOM HART <[email protected]> To: RBASE-L Mailing List <[email protected]> Sent: Sat, February 18, 2012 6:31:20 PM Subject: [RBASE-L] - Re: Property question That didn't work, I tried property dbmemo2 color 'red' and it did change the color, I just can't get the focus color to change Tom ________________________________ From: jan johansen <[email protected]> To: RBASE-L Mailing List <[email protected]> Sent: Sat, February 18, 2012 5:37:16 PM Subject: [RBASE-L] - Re: Property question Tom, I don't know if this is it. Mike Byerly reported earlier that a particular property command was case-sensitive. Just out of curiosity, did you try PROPERTY dbmemo2 HIGHLIGHTFOCUSCOLOR 'TEAL' Jan -----Original Message----- >From: TOM HART <[email protected]> >To: [email protected] (RBASE-L Mailing List) >Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2012 15:14:21 -0800 (PST) >Subject: [RBASE-L] - Property question > > >I have a form that uses dbmemo as push buttons, there are 36 on a page. I had >read-only color and focus color set to teal. When I installed the latest >update focus color has changed back to white. I know it happened with the >update because I have a compiled app from previous update works fine, but >when >I copy database to new update this happens. I will worry about that later, >but >for now I want to just change it back to teal with the following(all 36 have >CID as 'dbmemo2'): > >property dbmemo2 highlightfocuscolor 'teal' > >I have set this in my on-after-start eep but it does not change color > >Tom Hart > > >

