>>>>>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?
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>>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.
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>I agree with you that the user should have the choice/option. Look at the attached image. Back - many, many years ago - I decided that this light green color will be the background of a text box when in focus. And it has been this way "forever". But I need to change it; even I now strain my eyes when I see this color. So, user should be able to choose what they want.

You might be surprised sometimes what some users like -- there have been a few occasions where I'd seen people using the infamous "Hot Dog Stand" colour scheme (and actually liking it). And no, it wasn't on a monochrome monitor (there are some colour schemes that look pretty good in monochrome but awful in colour) but a colour monitor.

Now that "dark mode" has become trendy, I'm wondering how long it will be before we see the white/light grey/yellow on blue background becoming popular again...