Re: Forms45 - Problem with colors

Steve Cosner wrote:
>
> When I use a Windows platform that is running at 256 colors (instead
> of 64K colors), there is a problem setting the background colors on
> text items and display items. These always revert back to one of the
> 16 colors at the top left area of the color pallette. Even the grays
> only use black, white, light gray or dark gray.
 

> I would really appreciate hearing from anyone who might know anything
> about this problem.
>
> Thanks to all,
> Steve Cosner
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I have had the same problem when using Designer/2000 template forms. ON closer inspection I found that many of the colours which were used for the items were palette custom colors (e.g the gray for the canvas was named 'canvas'; similarly there were also custom colors named 'button', 'control' etc.). When trying to reference these visual attributes in a form with a different color palette, I would get some really strange colour selections. I found the solution was to ensure that the same colour options (even better the same colour palette), should be available in both my new and reference forms.

Hope this helps.

Nasier. Received on Thu May 29 1997 - 00:00:00 CEST