>In VFP 8, I drop a VFP pageframe onto a form and the pages have a default
>backcolor of 236,233,216 (light grey).
>
>I put a VFP label on any of the pages and the label also has a default backcolor
>of 236,233,216. But the two objects are definately a different shade of grey and
>the label stands out obnoxiously.
>
>Is this a known bug? Does anyone know of a work around (other than setting the
>label backstyle to 'Transparent')?

It's not a bug, it's a feature. :-)

It's an XP Themes thang. If you want to turn off Themes, either at the application or Form level, you'll see the desired behavior. You already found the best workaround though: setting the backstyle to Transparent. I suspect there are very few cases where this would actually be a problem.

You did use a custom label base class, right? :-)