Well that just sucks. Now I have to worry about people making my apps unreadable with their superflous themes. Bah! I know already that they aren't going to be happy if I tell them that they have to change their themes to use my software.

Thanks for the help guys. Guess I just have to adapt.

"I for one welcome our thematic overlords..."

>It overrides unless you are using Themes, in which case, Themes take precedence.
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>>Reading the docs for the colorsource property, setting 0, I see:
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>>"Object's Color Properties. The control uses its color property settings (ForeColor, BackColor, and so on). "
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>>Sure seemed like that would override windows settings...am I misunderstanding or is it a bug?
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>>>You can't. If you use Themes, then the colors will always adapt to Windows settings...which, BTW, is what Windows UI Guidelines say should happen.
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>>>>Hi;
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>>>>I am in the process of migrating a vfp7 app to vfp9, and am having difficulty getting the page backgound to do what I want it to.
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>>>>If I have "windows and buttons" in the appearance tab of display properties set to "windows classic style", all is well. However, if this is set to "Windows XP style, The pages default to whatever windows has set, no matter how I set the colorsource property.
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>>>>Does anyone know how I can get control of my pageframe backcolor in both situations?
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>>>>Thanks
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>>>>Russ