>Have found that some bitmaps (both 16colour and 256colour) seem to clash when my graphics card is set to 256colours or less. By clashing I mean that the colours change and the form becomes unusable.
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>Sometimes minimizing/maximizing the form will resolve this problem.
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>This is particularly apparent when using a bitmap on an OCX control (such as BPS graphics server), in conjunction with a similar bitmap on the form. - This results in the colours clashing and text becoming unreadble.
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>I have tried changeing the AUTOYIELD property, which seems to affect more than just OCX controls, but this has no effect.
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>I am running VFP 5.0 on a pentium 150 with 32meg of RAM, 3.5GB HD, Mach 64 graphics card, etc.
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>Any ideas would be most welcome.
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>James.

Look at the SET PALLETTE command to see if changing it helps.

Craig