>>>Leave all the color settings at their defaults and VFP will pick up the user's settings.
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>>Actually you have to change one property on the form. Change the Colorsource property to 5 - Windows Control Panel (Windows Colors). Otherwise, the default is 4 and your form color respects the same color source as your buttons and any other 3D object.
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>That's not ususally what you want, though, is it? That ordinarily gives a white (or possibly blue or yellow, other colors some users have set) screen. The standard I see with all software is to leave it 4 (as Craig said, basically).

I'm going to disagree here.

Because we are talking about the user having the ability to change the colors of things, we should configure our systems so they behave the way other applications do. Word and Excel (the only two I looked at for this example) use the Windows color source for the work area. Forms are VFPs work areas so they should be controlled by that property, as well.

Because VFP defaults to 3D objects doesn't mean it should stay that way (IMO).