You're welcome.

>Thanks, Sergey.
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>>>Q1. LINE must be taking something from its ColorSource to do the dash gaps - but what?
>>It takes form's backcolor to do the gaps(DrawMode=13).
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>Indeed. That's useful when you aren't drawing on the raw form ...
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>>(Q2. Why do containers have a BackColor _and_ a ForeColor?)
>>Container is a visual control so it has those properties.
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>If only _all_ visual controls had both ...
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>>>
>>>Q3. Any improvements likely in VFP8 to homogenize the treatment of BackColor and ForeColor across the native controls (e.g. CommandButton has no access to BackColor)?
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>>We would know soon (after DevCon). :)
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>I can live with these things, but it does takes time to think a way round such minor (mis)behaviours.
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>John Burton