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  • tshad
    #1

    Text on TabControl tabs not displaying correctly

    I found that on my laptop running my programs that have the forecolor set to
    ControlText will not display correctly. I have the font set to Verdana 9pt
    and bold (although it doesn't seem to matter which font I use). But the
    letters are all messed up. Some of the parts of the letters will look bold
    others will not and have a wierd shadow to them. On my desktop they look
    fine.

    If I change the forecolor to ActiveCaptionTe xt - it looks fine. Except for
    the TabControl Tabs. I have to set the Forecolor in the TabPages collection
    area but that doesn't seem to have any effect on it.

    How do I get the tab text to display correct???

    Thanks,

    Tom


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    • tshad
      #2
      Re: Text on TabControl tabs not displaying correctly

      Turns out the problem is that I was using Toshibas Screen Display Theme.
      When I used the WindowsXP theme, the letters looked fine when using
      ControlText. And when using ActiveCaptionTe xt, the letters were white.

      How can I make it so that my letters will look right under any theme?

      Still not sure why the TabPages didn't work at all.

      Tom
      "tshad" <tfs@dslextreme .comwrote in message
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      >I found that on my laptop running my programs that have the forecolor set
      >to ControlText will not display correctly. I have the font set to Verdana
      >9pt and bold (although it doesn't seem to matter which font I use). But
      >the letters are all messed up. Some of the parts of the letters will look
      >bold others will not and have a wierd shadow to them. On my desktop they
      >look fine.
      >
      If I change the forecolor to ActiveCaptionTe xt - it looks fine. Except
      for the TabControl Tabs. I have to set the Forecolor in the TabPages
      collection area but that doesn't seem to have any effect on it.
      >
      How do I get the tab text to display correct???
      >
      Thanks,
      >
      Tom
      >

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        • rowe_newsgroups
          #3
          Re: Text on TabControl tabs not displaying correctly

          How can I make it so that my letters will look right under any theme?

          Probably only by using Images as everything. This would be a
          maintenance nightmare, disable localization, add size to projects, and
          very inadvisable. IMO, people who run non-XP or Vista themes (such as
          Window Blinds) should expect to have some difficulties. And those
          difficulties are their responsibilitie s. It's like the old saying that
          20% of the work is spent satisfying 80% of your users. Not that the
          other 20% of the user aren't important, but they aren't worth spending
          large amounts of time/money making massive changes that hurt the
          entire system. IMO, you should try to solve the problems for most of
          the 20%, and just forget about the others.

          Thanks,

          Seth Rowe



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