>Hey Gil, thanks again. Yes, you're right, it's a BackColor propert, not ForeColor. I've added a method to the mceditbox(our company subclass of ceditbox), called SetBackColor:
>
>IF THIS.lChangeBackColor = .T. then
> THIS.BACKCOLOR =8454143
>ELSE
> THIS.BACKCOLOR =16777215
> THIS.lChangeBackColor = .T.
>ENDIF
>I am hard coding this(which I hate) because I don't think our users will use another color.But I will try your advise with the property to hold default BackColor.
>There is another VFP method ResetToDefault which sounds like what I need, I've tryied to used it but it didn't work, I mean I've got an error.
>What do you think?
>Igor

I've never used the ResetToDefault method. It does look like it should reset the color the the inherited value when the user leaves the control. What is the error?