You can change the Background color for the Command Window and Code Editor to be different than the system colors. Would that help?



>well yes I know you can do that...you can do it by changing the system colors...but seeing how it changes ALL the colors it's kind of self defeating....
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>>>aahh well rats. Only 2 things I've put on wishlist since VFP3 ... a command window I can change the colors in and a subclassable dataenviornment.
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>>You absolutely CAN change the background color of the Command window. In Windows XP at least it's determined by the Windows "Color 1" setting for "Window." Trouble is, you'll color everything that way. < BG >