>>>>>>>>>>Is there a way to make the background color of controls be whatever the color of the form is? I'm trying to create the illusion of a report on a form by getting rid of borders so it looks like the text is right on the form. But if they change their system colours (I checked) the background stays grey.
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>>>>>>>>>>Thanks,
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>>>>>>>>>>-Michelle
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>>>>>>>>>What controls you mean? Note, that BackStyle=0 (transparent) would help here.
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>>>>>>>>Labels, textboxes, and list boxes. I'll look into BackStyle.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>Thanks,
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>-Michelle
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>BackStyle should help you. Also, there is no magic in:
>>>>>>>ThisForm.SetAll("BackColor",Thisform.Backcolor,"Textbox")
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>>>>>>It keeps telling me that property backcolor is not found. I checked and the page and listbox both have backcolors as well as the form. Any ideas?
>>>>>>
>>>>>Did you cal it separately, for each class?
>>>>>ThisForm.SetAll("BackColor",Thisform.Backcolor,"Textbox")
>>>>>ThisForm.SetAll("BackColor",Thisform.Backcolor,"Listbox")
>>>>
>>>>Yep. I cut and pasted your code twice. Then I changed one to Listbox and one to Page.
>>>>
>>>Michelle, it seems that Listbox doesn't have BackColor property.
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>>Ok, it's definitely time to go home. I was looking at an edit box for the property... Sigh...
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>but it has ItemBackColor which is appropriate to use :::)

Cool, that'll work. :)

Thanks,

-Michelle