Re: RGB color of command button control (what grey is it?)

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<rocco@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hello,
> To give my database a custom look I would like to use some graphics on
> the command buttons.
> I built each graphics in .png and then export it in .bmp.
> Bmp cannot have transparency, and for what I know Access cannot manage
> transparency anyway (either with .gif).
> It happens that if I look at the db on some other pc I can see that
> the background of my picture doesn't blend perfectly with the color of
> the command button (which cannot be changed and will always be a kind
> of grey). I means that the grey I use for the canvas of my picture is
> different from the grey color of the command button.
> Sometimes my picture background is a bit darker, some other a bit
> lighter. But not equal. And it is cumbersome to match the exact color
> just trying and trying. Also because when I built the graphic and I
> look at it on my pc I cannot (obviously) see any difference: the
> colors match nicely. On other pc they simply mismatch.
> Does anyone know the RGB values of the default color of the command
> button control? In this way I could set the background color of my
> graphics exactly with the same values and no difference will show up,
> whatever pc I'm going to use.
> I hope.
>
> thanks,
> Rocco

Hi Rocco,

Have you looked here?
http://www.lebans.com/transparent.htm

Stephan has been known to perform magic!

HTH

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