Hi Emerson, can you take a look at Carlos Alloati Progressbar, it detects any windows color that Windows uses. Maybe you can find something in his code, or aks him

Take care.

Luis

>Hi Mike!
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>I've read the article, but it uses an ActiveX control developed in .Net and this control has a native property that makes the style follow Windows style (or not) and no code is needed to do this.
>The goal of Outlook2003Bar is that it is entirely written in VFP and no needs external resources to "mimic" Outlook shortcut bar style and I want to maintain this.
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>I'm looking for a way to do Outlook2003Bar follow Windows schemes/colors whithout need to create predefined schemes, like .Net does, but I'm not finding resources to point me in the correct direction to do this.
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>Anyway, tks for your help!