BackgroundColor strangeness

[Alex Rice]

On Nov 20, 2003, at 2:29 PM, Howard Bornstein wrote:

> You're not going crazy (at least not because you're reporting this 
> <g>). This bug has been around since the beginning and has been 
> bugzilled many times.
>
> The workaround is to place a graphic (or other object) at the bottom 
> layer of your stack and color it the color you want your background to 
> be. Clunky, but it works, and holds over into the standalone.

Ahah! So that's why I still have a white rectangular graphic in my 
project :-)

Relating to this issue is that controls will inherit the 
backgroundColor even if there is a white graphic underneath everything 
-- I think.

There is also a Win32 registry lookup for getting the color of the 
control color for the current Windows user.

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