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   Kenneth to noJimspam@omitThisHarganonline.com   
   Re: Machine specific form problem...?   
   23 Feb 07 14:19:58   
   
   From: usenet@soleSPAMLESSassociates.com   
      
   On Thu, 22 Feb 2007 08:45:18 -0500, Jim Hargan   
    wrote:   
      
   >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   
      
   Hey Jim,   
      
   I appreciate your comment...   
      
   As it turns out, my son had set the system with the problem   
   to 256, rather than to 32 bit, color.   
      
   That caused the odd difficulty I had.   
      
   All the best,   
   --   
   Kenneth   
      
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