>I agree with Bruce. Color pairs don't make sense anymore...and the correct Windows way of doing colors is to allow the user to select their own via Windows Control Panel. Leave the foreground and background colors in VFP at their default settings and the Windows colors will be picked up.

That seems to be the best advice. I'm trying to shoehorn some old FP 1.x code into VFP (tight budget) and when I messed with the color attribute of a user-defined window (I know...obsolete) I got undesirable results when running under NT.

Thanks for the advice.