Hi

The system colours on my app tend to be different based on the machine the app is running and therefore field/label backgrounds can be different colours from the main form. Al the way through the app system colours are used eg vbButtonFace, vbWindowBackground etc and to go through the whole app and hard code the colours would be a bit of a pain, is there anyway to set the system colours on loading the app ?

Regards

Daz

hi there..

are you sure you want to change the system colors of the user?? the way the user have it make usually good for them.. I think you should change your app. color to avoid any problem...

HTH

Gonzalo

I do not understand the problem. if you use system colors in your app (like vbButtonFace, that BTW are all set by default in VB when a component is created) you app SHOULD run with the current selected system colors.
Can you give an example of your problem?

Hi

After further checking it seems that somebody decided to define a new set of constants for colours, hard coded to the colours they had in their user profile. At various points they used the system defaults and other points the constants. I was searching for standard vb colours and not finding any (eg the background was the same as vbgray so search the app for vbgray) therefore I though I had a problem.

Eventually tucked away in a module (obscurely named) I found the constants and assigned them to system defaults and now the form colours seem to behave correctly (with the exception of some forms that have colours assigned from the user palette rather that the system pallet)

Thanks for your responses.

Daz