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   Message 8,209 of 9,834   
   Jim Hargan to Kenneth   
   Re: Machine specific form problem...?   
   22 Feb 07 08:45:18   
   
   From: noJimspam@omitThisHarganonline.com   
      
   On Thu, 22 Feb 2007 08:11:09 -0500, Kenneth wrote:   
      
   > On my main machine, that form displays properly with fields   
   > appearing in a light gray with black text. When the mouse   
   > cursor goes to a particular field, the field (as expected)   
   > becomes black, and the text, white.   
   >   
   > Yesterday, I was at another machine, and opened the form.   
   >   
   > It looked fine, until I clicked on any field. With that, the   
   > field became opaque white, and no text was visible.   
   >   
   > At that point, if I clicked on the field again, it appeared   
   > as it should: black field, with white text.   
      
   If you do not explicitly set a color, the form will pick up the machine's   
   system colors. Dunno why this should send your font white when you fire   
   your color changing code, but it's something to check.   
      
      
   Jim Hargan   
      
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