I will use the assign method of an object whose color is determined by the windows selection and refresh from there.

I am sorry to sound so much like an excited child but I have only recently got over the hump converting a large FPD app into VFP and it is so much fun! All this plus embedded SQL select and macros (neither of which you-know-what-language doesn't have). VFP is an incredible work of art. Congratulations to the Fox team.

Alex


>For your info, got answer by trial and error:
>
>DECLARE INTEGER GetSysColor IN win32api INTEGER nIndex
>lnColor1 = GetSysColor(4) && Menu background
>lnColor2 = GetSysColor(2) && Active window caption
>
>I then render the _SCREEN and my logo in those colors and it looks pretty darn sharp. Now, have to figure how to refresh _SCREEN automatically if user changes color preferences. That will look impressive in a presentation.
>
>How do you do that without a timer? Is there an appropriate event?
>
>Alex
>
>
>>Hi,
>>
>>I got the following reference from the MS support pages. The functions read and change the system colors. The semantics are for VB. How do I implement them in VFP ?
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>>Declare Function GetSysColor Lib "User" (ByVal nIndex%) As Long
>>
>>Declare Sub SetSysColors Lib "User" (ByVal nChanges%,
>> lpSysColor%,
>> lpColorValues&)
>>
>>Thank you much.
>>
>>Alex