>Situation:
> - VFP 3.0b
> - Color planes: 8 (256 colors)
> - Deployment: (limited, 2 pcs)
>
>Problems:
> - Setting background color to non-palette color
> does not correctly produce dithered color in
> object. Particularly troublesome are Text and
> List objects.
> - Some non-palette colors (e.g., 224,224,224)
> successfully produce 90% gray on development
> PC, but white with dithered gray 2-pixel margin on
> client PC.
> - Some non-pure palette colors (i.e., dithered in
> palette) result in incorrect background, while
> dithered color appears only in margin.
>
>Conclusions:
> - There is a trick to making dithered colors work in
> VFP, and someone here knows how.
> - This is hopeless in VFP 3, and works in VFP 5. We
> are committed to VFP 3 for some client sites that
> still use Win 3.1.
> - Several members of the VFP 3.0 team deserve to
> be tarred and feathered. More than 50% of VFP-3
> related work involves hunting for workarounds and
> solutions to bewilderingly stupid and incorrect
> behavior.
>
>Have I missed something?
>
>Please reply to anon@umich.edu if possible.
>
>Thanks.
>
>...anon...
>Omar S. Juma
>anon@umich.edu

Some of what you are experiencing will depend on video card, driver, monitor, and resolution. VFP has nothing to do with these.

Craig