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At 12 MAR 1999 06:53:17AM Oystein Reigem wrote:

Saw my app run with a Windows set up with other colours (Control Panel - Display). Yuck! It's really something to try! I'm certain many of you have controls with specific colours, at least from the time before one could use Windows system colours. Have now spent a couple of hours cleaning up, setting Properties | System colors | Default for a lot of controls. (Wish I could do the same for that second-hand car door of mine.)

But RevSoft has a job to do as well, unless they've already cleaned up since OI 3.61, which is the version I use. E.g the dialog box for a response message has an edit line that stays white even if the system "Window" colour is set to something different in Control Panel - Display. And e.g the main OpenInsight window looks like the painter left early.

(One problem I don't expect to be solved is that homemade push buttons don't change colour along with the standard push buttons. That goes for both mine and OI's.)

- Oystein -


At 12 MAR 1999 11:37AM Oystein Reigem wrote:

How can one programmatically set the colours of controls to system colours? Set_Property( objectname, "BACKCOLOR", color ) can only set to specific RGB colours.

- Oystein -


At 12 MAR 1999 12:11PM Oystein Reigem wrote:

Forget that question about setting system colours. Found the system colours in Color_Equates.

- Oystein -

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