>>>I stopped trusting my senses long time ago :). I will probably make it a user-defined setting. I use one "global" library of all controls. So, setting .backstyle to 0 could be default. But if a customer is looking for the second shoe to drop, I will allow them easily enable .backstyle to 1.
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>>Then why not a backcolor picker with an added option of transparent? :)
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>Do you really want to overload his customers with all that power?

Why not? Then they'd be calling about something simple, that he could instruct them in a minute how to fix, and everyone happy. So they'd forget about the more obscure, hard to track, bugs... It's up to him, of course, does he want to sell that rope.