From: noJimspam@omitThisHarganonline.com   
      
   On Fri, 23 Feb 2007 14:19:58 -0500, Kenneth wrote:   
      
   > 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.   
      
   Well, it *was* machine specific! Thanks for letting me know.   
      
   Jim Hargan   
      
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