David,
Are you sure that isn't BGR? It seems that way on my system.
Try:
_screen.backcolor = 0xFF0000 && Blue
_screen.backcolor = 0x00FF00 && Green
_screen.backcolor = 0x0000FF && Red

Rick

Note: My initials are RGB <g>.

>Cetin,
>
>>myColor = 0xCCFF33
>
>Not quite, VFP stores the value inside the int as GBR not RGB
>
>_screen.backcolor = 0x33FFCC && equivalent to HTML color CCFF33