AFAIK, VB doesn't do any better than VFP in that area. This is a Windows thing.
Try to use the Windows color settings instead of setting a specific color for a form/control. That way, the user can select a color scheme that display correcly on his monitor.

HTH

>I know this has been cussed and discussed before but I could not find the threads on my particular problem.
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>I have developed an application and my video setting are 16 bit high color. But if I run this on a computer with setting of 256 colors or less the screens and images change color. I can understand why, but what do you do to make an application compatible with different display settings? Does Visual Basic handle is problem better.