Colors

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Rodtnick

I use Classic Settings on my Windows XP and have written my databases
using those colors. But when I deliver a database to a computer that is
using XP colors, the colors on my database are all wrong. Is there a
way to deliver a database and keep the colors it was written in even if
the user has a different color scheme?

Thanks

Bruce
 
Thanks, Doug, but I DON'T want the application to pick up the local systems
colors, I want the colors that I originally used to stay the same no matter
what t5heme they are using.

Thanx.

B
 
In that case, use the "normal" constants: what you get when you pick a
colour from the palette.

Or am I misinterpretting your problem?
 
Bruce said:
Thanks, Doug, but I DON'T want the application to pick up the local
systems colors, I want the colors that I originally used to stay the
same no matter what t5heme they are using.

Thanx.
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I can sympathize, but the problem with using "hard colors" is that you can only
do so for some of the obects and not all of them. If you use any color number
that is not negative then it should display as that color on all systems.
However if you are choosing a hard color that matches the gray found in your
scrollbars and command buttons then those will not agree with your chosen color
on other systems because those use system colors and you have no choice in the
matter.

So...you have to decide whether you get better presentation by hard coding
certain colors and having them not agree with others on other systems or whether
you want all items to have the same color and have that color be determined by
the system settings.
 
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