>I've been using VFP with Themes enabled and XP for so long that I had forgotten what un-themed pageframes look like. When I disabled themes to see what a customer was seeing I was surprised to see how little contrast there is between seperate tabs of a pageframe. Everything looks great until tab 2 thru N is selected. What I see on my system is that the tab to the left of the selected tab has a white border. This makes it difficult to see the difference between the selected tab and the tab to its left.
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>I'm wondering what determines that white border: a sysmetrics() value or something else? I would like my pageframe to use a dark gray vs. white border so that the distinction between tabs is easier to see.
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>Any suggestions (other than using different color page backgrounds or turning off tabs and managing my own tab controls)?
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>Thank you,
>Malcolm


What's wrong with different page colors? I've used on some projects where I'll add a non-visible control on each page in the pageframe init that has UIEnable code that will change the color of the page when it goes active/inactive. It can be a major color change or a minor color change depending how much "contrast" you want/need between the active tab and the other non-selected tabs.

The users have always liked it.