BUG: Window Colors Cannot Be Customized from Developer Studio
Article ID: 138873
Article Last Modified on 12/1/2003
APPLIES TO
- Microsoft Visual C++ 4.0 Standard Edition
- Microsoft Visual C++ 4.1 Subscription
- Microsoft Visual C++ 4.2 Enterprise Edition
- Microsoft Visual C++ 5.0 Enterprise Edition
- Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0 Enterprise Edition
- Microsoft Visual C++ 4.2 Professional Edition
- Microsoft Visual C++ 5.0 Professional Edition
- Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0 Professional Edition
- Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0 Standard Edition
This article was previously published under Q138873
SYMPTOMS
Not all the window colors change when you customize the window foreground and background colors in Visual C++ Developer Studio. The colors
for the Project Workspace window and the Resource Editor window remain unchanged.
RESOLUTION
If you need to change the color for the
Project Workspace window and the
Resource Editor window, you need to do it from the operating system's control panel:
- Under Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows Millennium Edition (Me), Windows NT 4.0, or Windows 2000, click My Computer. Then click Control Panel, and click Display, and click Appearance.
-or-
You can also right-click the Desktop window, and then click Properties to get the Display Properties dialog box. Then click the Appearance tab.
In the Item box, select Window. Then choose the foreground or background
color. This will affect every window in your system.
- Under Windows NT 3.51, click Control Panel, and then click Color. Click Color Palette, and then select Window Background or Window Text under Screen Element. Then choose the color. This will affect every window in your system.
STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed this to be a bug in the Microsoft products listed
at the beginning of this article.
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