Hi, according to the on-line documentation you can change the
background colour of, for example a button, to Gray as shown below.

Dim b as Button
b.BackColor=Color.Gray

If I programmatically want to change the background colour of a button
to the default background colour for controls, it may or may not be
grey (depending on the preferences, eg Windows Classic style vs.
Windows XP style or a customised style may have changed the default
colouts). So how do you retrieve the default background colour for
controls ?
Thank you
Colin

Hi,

Button1.BackColor = SystemColors.Control



Ken
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"Colin McGuire" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> Hi, according to the on-line documentation you can change the
> background colour of, for example a button, to Gray as shown below.
>
> Dim b as Button
> b.BackColor=Color.Gray
>
> If I programmatically want to change the background colour of a button
> to the default background colour for controls, it may or may not be
> grey (depending on the preferences, eg Windows Classic style vs.
> Windows XP style or a customised style may have changed the default
> colouts). So how do you retrieve the default background colour for
> controls ?
> Thank you
> Colin

* (E-Mail Removed) (Colin McGuire) scripsit:
> So how do you retrieve the default background colour for
> controls ?

'SystemColors.*', in your case 'SystemColors.Control'.

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