Changing the background colour of a Form changed the background colour
of several controls on it, as if they were transparent. I think this
change from VB6 is quite crazy, and I wonder if there are simple ways
around this.

The only thing I can think of is to change the colour of all controls
in a For loop - not a very decent solution, but Microsoft seems to do
a lot of illogical things - user hostile.

Something like

Dim ctrl As Control
For Each ctrl In Form1.Controls
If Type ctrl Is button Then ctrl.BackColor =
Color.FromArgb(128, 255, 92)
If Type ctrl Is label Then ctrl.BackColor =
Color.FromArgb(128, 128, 128)
Next

Am 01.08.2010 21:17, schrieb C:
> Changing the background colour of a Form changed the background colour
> of several controls on it, as if they were transparent. I think this
> change from VB6 is quite crazy, and I wonder if there are simple ways
> around this.


See 2nd paragraph in the "remarks" section

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/libr...backcolor.aspx

and the (therein linked) 3rd paragraph here

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/libr...s.control.aspx

about "ambient properties".


> The only thing I can think of is to change the colour of all controls
> in a For loop - not a very decent solution, but Microsoft seems to do
> a lot of illogical things - user hostile.

Well, I am happy that I don't have to manually change the colors
of all controls if I change the Form color because it's done
automatically. ;-)

> Something like
>
> Dim ctrl As Control
> For Each ctrl In Form1.Controls
> If Type ctrl Is button Then ctrl.BackColor =
> Color.FromArgb(128, 255, 92)
> If Type ctrl Is label Then ctrl.BackColor =
> Color.FromArgb(128, 128, 128)
> Next

You can also select multiple controls in the designer, then set
their backcolor properties in one go.

--
Armin

On 1 elo, 22:37, Armin Zingler <az.nos...@freenet.de> wrote:
> Am 01.08.2010 21:17, schrieb C:
>
> > Changing the background colour of a Form changed the background colour
> > of several controls on it, as if they were transparent. I think this
> > change from VB6 is quite crazy, and I wonder if there are simple ways
> > around this.
>
> See 2nd paragraph in the "remarks" section
>
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/libr....forms.control....
>
> and the (therein linked) 3rd paragraph here
>
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/libr....forms.control....
>
> about "ambient properties".
>

I read it. New way of thinking.

> > The only thing I can think of is to change the colour of all controls
> > in a For loop - not a very decent solution, but Microsoft seems to do
> > a lot of illogical things - user hostile.
>
> Well, I am happy that I don't have to manually change the colors
> of all controls if I change the Form color because it's done
> automatically. ;-)

You have a point. For labels and check boxes this might be a good
thing. For some other controls, may be not.

>
> > Something like
>
> > Dim ctrl As Control
> > * * * * For Each ctrl In Form1.Controls
> > * * * * * * If Type ctrl Is button Then ctrl.BackColor =
> > Color.FromArgb(128, 255, 92)
> > * * * * * * If Type ctrl Is label Then ctrl.BackColor =
> > Color.FromArgb(128, 128, 128)
> > * * * * Next
>
> You can also select multiple controls in the designer, then set
> their backcolor properties in one go.

This too is nice. I have all commands in one column, so it will be
easy to pick all of them with the arrow without getting other things
in the selection.

Thanks.

>
> --
> Armin