Yeah, that was the first thing Ed suggested. I set them to transparent.

Thanks,

-Michelle


>Just a note: Remember the BackStyle property. It is nice in some situations. If you have a label that is on the edge of a shape control (half on the shape and half on the form) and the shape is a different colour than the form (I use the shape to separate some sections of data in data entry forms), the label will have no background colour, so over the shape it'll be the shapes's colour and over the form, it'll be the form's colour.
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>I set the property to transparent in my base class.
>
>Joe
>
>>>>>>>>>>>>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.
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>Thanks,
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>-Michelle
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>What controls you mean? Note, that BackStyle=0 (transparent) would help here.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>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")
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>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.
>>>>
>>>>Ok, it's definitely time to go home. I was looking at an edit box for the property... Sigh...
>>>
>>>but it has ItemBackColor which is appropriate to use :::)
>>
>>Cool, that'll work. :)
>>
>>Thanks,
>>
>>-Michelle