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>As Nick mentioned in his post, we are inundated with color meanings all the time. Stop lights are REDGREEN. These coliors mean something.

Yes, but traffic lights do not have WORDS on them, they are symbols that have been standardized, and we already have the ability to do command buttons with symbols (.BMPs, .ICOs, etc.)

> And another point Nick brought up that I want to expand on. Forms, labels, shapes, text, etc. all have properties to set the backcolor. If we are to assume that we are never to touch the color settings because the user should always have control in this arean, then why do these items have this property? Why is the development handicapped in this way? Did the team in charge of command buttons say, 'Oh no! We can't give developers the ability to change command button colors'. And at the same time, all the other members of the VFP developement team thought, 'What the hell'.

Just because one CAN change something, doesn't mean that one SHOULD change it. But yes, I do agree the freedom to change it should be allowed, as there are ALWAYS special circumstances where that might be a better/more simple solution. It probably would get abused, though, like your pink/purple? example.