Switching from Classic to Windows XP controls look bad??

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newscorrespondent@charter.net - 20 Jan 2007 14:33 GMT

I have a desktop appliction currently compiling with Visual Studio 2005
written in C#. The client recently switched from Classic Windows to
WindowsXP and many of the controls and background colors are washed out and
can't be seen.

Is there a quick fix or do I just need to go through all of them and make
adjustments? What adjustments need to be made?

Thanks

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Jeff Gaines - 20 Jan 2007 15:06 GMT

>I have a desktop appliction currently compiling with Visual Studio 2005
>written in C#. The client recently switched from Classic Windows to
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>Thanks

Are the 'washed out' colours things like Tree Views and List Views with
Hide Selection set to false? If so it's a feature of XP and get worse in
Vista where they seem to use white on white as a high light.

If your app uses the client's existing Windows colours then perhaps he/she
needs to adjust the system wide colours, it is probably an issue in
several spps?

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ClayB - 22 Jan 2007 11:06 GMT

Your color settings may not be taking effect due to XP Themes support.
You could try commenting out:

Application.EnableVisualStyles();

in your static Main method to see if that affects this problem. You
could also look for properties like ThemesEnabled on the problem
controls and turn those off as well.

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Clay Burch
Syncfusion, Inc.

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