Re: Themes & Colors

Yes... been in the US all my life thank you.
The question was:
To make our app look and feel like an XP app, I need to change the app
apperience to:
Theme: Windows XP
Color Scheme: Silver.

All computers are running XP. Some have the default blue as a color scheme.
(Where colors are concerned, Microsoft Suc*s)
I need to switch the Color Scheme from Default Blue, when the app starts, to
Silver then Vice Versa when the app ends.

SetSyscolor() does not seem to do it. It will not change the _screen and
Forms Title Bar color even though I am changing activecaption (2) and
gradientactivecaption (27).

Do you know how to do this? if so would appreciete some help here.

Thanks
Mohammed



"Craig Berntson" wrote:

Are you in the US? Is your client aware that by forcing colors in the
application, they could violate the Citizens with Disabilities Act?

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Craig Berntson
MCSD, Visual FoxPro MVP
Salt Lake City Fox User Group
"ImagineCorp" <ashruff@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Much against my better judgment I have to set windows XP themes and colors
in our app. We normally allow the users to set their own colors using
RGB(). A client wants us to disable this and set up XP themes. The choice
is Silver as opposed to the Default Blue. My problem is some users may
have Default Blue set up on their machines. I do not want to use
GetSysColor() or SetSysColor() if I can get away with it. Though I could
when the app starts and reset when it ends. Is there another way in VFP? I
can change the colors for all except the MessageBox() (use this a lot) and
the Form Title Bar. Any idea how to do this?

OR

How do I access the Silver XP theme, is there a scheme like in the old fox
days? If I can then I will change the scheme and reset.

Also I have seen quite a few posts about disabling themes for XP as it
causes erratic behavior i.e. cursor disappearing etc.

Any and all ideas will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks


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Mohammed
www.imaginecorp.com/what_we_do.htm





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