Text on TabControl tabs not displaying correctly

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tshad

I found that on my laptop running my programs that have the forecolor set to
ControlText will not display correctly. I have the font set to Verdana 9pt
and bold (although it doesn't seem to matter which font I use). But the
letters are all messed up. Some of the parts of the letters will look bold
others will not and have a wierd shadow to them. On my desktop they look
fine.

If I change the forecolor to ActiveCaptionText - it looks fine. Except for
the TabControl Tabs. I have to set the Forecolor in the TabPages collection
area but that doesn't seem to have any effect on it.

How do I get the tab text to display correct???

Thanks,

Tom
 
Turns out the problem is that I was using Toshibas Screen Display Theme.
When I used the WindowsXP theme, the letters looked fine when using
ControlText. And when using ActiveCaptionText, the letters were white.

How can I make it so that my letters will look right under any theme?

Still not sure why the TabPages didn't work at all.

Tom
 
How can I make it so that my letters will look right under any theme?

Probably only by using Images as everything. This would be a
maintenance nightmare, disable localization, add size to projects, and
very inadvisable. IMO, people who run non-XP or Vista themes (such as
Window Blinds) should expect to have some difficulties. And those
difficulties are their responsibilities. It's like the old saying that
20% of the work is spent satisfying 80% of your users. Not that the
other 20% of the user aren't important, but they aren't worth spending
large amounts of time/money making massive changes that hurt the
entire system. IMO, you should try to solve the problems for most of
the 20%, and just forget about the others.

Thanks,

Seth Rowe
 
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