>For your info, got answer by trial and error:
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>DECLARE INTEGER GetSysColor IN win32api INTEGER nIndex
>lnColor1 = GetSysColor(4) && Menu background
>lnColor2 = GetSysColor(2) && Active window caption
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>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.
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>How do you do that without a timer? Is there an appropriate event?
>

The problem that you run into is that VFP catches the message that is broadcast to all running processes to notify it that a change event has occurred. I'm not aware of a method to hook VFP's message queue directly.