Switching from Classic to Windows XP controls look bad??

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

Jeff
Sat Jan 20 09:06:37 CST 2007

On 20/01/2007 in message <cLpsh.5$SS.2@newsfe05.lga>
newscorrespondent@charter.net wrote:

>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

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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Jeff Gaines

ClayB
Mon Jan 22 05:06:53 CST 2007

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.