Workaround system colours XP/NT

[Harmannus]

Hallo,

Does anybody have suggestion for a workaround for the use of colours for
e.g. a tabcontrol under NT and XP?

The NT tabcontrol is grey. The XP tabcontrol is the same colour as the
background. I would like to implement te XP version for NT.

In general it would be nice if the colourscheme could be set so a
application looks the same under XP and NT...

Hope somebodye has any tips.

Regards,

Harmannus

 

[Art]

Hello:

Try using labels in place of the tabs. Make them any
color you like.

Hope This Helps

 

[Harmannus]

Hallo,

Thanx for the tip! This still leaves my with the same problem (i think).
Using the database both a XP and NT systems means that i still have 2
different interpretations of a colour scheme.

Regards,

Harmannus

 

[Rick Brandt]

Hallo,

Thanx for the tip! This still leaves my with the same problem (i think).
Using the database both a XP and NT systems means that i still have 2
different interpretations of a colour scheme.

If you use System colors then you have to deal with the System settings.
If you want to avoid that then don't use System colors. The real headache
with this is command buttons as they use the System color for a 3D object
and you can't change it. Unless you want to replace all command buttons
with labels or TextBoxes, there's not much you can do about it.

BTW, while MS has decided to tweak "system gray" in each version of Windows
lately that does not restrict this to a Windows versioning problem. The
user on any version could be using a non-standard system palette in which
case the same issues arise.