System Colors

When you develop an application you are advised to adapt the position of objects and their (Control Panel) colors to the type of graphics board (e.g. VGA, or SVGA) that will be used in the production environment. Also, make sure that the fonts used are available on the target platform.

Colors for objects can be set by referencing one of the "items" normally set using the Control Panel. The recognized references for these "system colors" are shown in the following table.

System Colors

System Color	System Color	System Color
Active Border	Active Title Bar	Active Title Bar Text
Application Workspace	Button Face	Button Highlight
Button Shadow	Button Text	Desktop
Disabled Text	Highlight	Highlighted Text
Inactive Border	Inactive Title Bar	Inactive Title Bar Text
Menu Bar	Menu Text	Scroll Bars
Window Background	Window Frame	Window Text

If you set the Foreground Color property of a Data object to Button Text, for example, the color will correspond to that set in the Control Panel.

NOTE:

References are only allowed in the English language.