thanks al. i'm looking into this now.

>>I upgraded an app from fox 2.6 to vfp 9 sp2.
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>>The colors of screen objects are different.
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>>Does anyone know what is controling this?
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>>When I did the upgrade, it asked me if I wanted to do a regular upgrade or a visual upgrade.
>> I picked regular. Would this have made a difference?
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>The colours of some objects might be controlled by Themes. You could try setting _Screen.Themes = .F. to test this.