>If one goes to the Tools - Options menu in VFP and looks, for example, under the general tab the - "Warning Sound" label appears neatly over the border of the optiongroup within the page frame.
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>How does one mimic this behavior in VFP8? If I set the backstyle of the label to opaque on a pageframe the back color of the label does not match the color of the pageframe, this doesn't look right. If I set the backstlye property of the label to transparent then one can see the line going through the label, this looks funny too. I'm hoping there is a very basic solution I am overlooking.
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>Any ideas greatly appreciated.

John,

The only thing I found to do was to set THEMES to .f. for my pageframe base class. Then, the pageframe appears like it always has in VFP and the labels and pageframe have the same backcolor.

Jim