I have an app which has been brought up from VFP 5, 6, and now 8,
under Windows 95, 98, 2000, and now we're in XP.

The buttons on all my forms now act strangely. They "disappear"
unless then have the focus. You can see the button's text, but not
the outline. Similar to the "cool bar" effect, but this is not cool
on a form. I have played with the form's Themse property as well as
the button's (our forms and buttons are all subclassed, so changing
the class's Theme property sets that property for everything of that
class). Nothing works.

I HAVE done new development with forms and buttons that are not
subclassed, and they look OK. Is this a known issue with VFP 8 and
XP?

John

Ah, finally figured this one out. Don't know how this happened,
whether it was during the upgrade to VFP 8 or what, but our button
class had gotten it's "Special Effect" property set to "Hot Tracking".
I set it back to "3D" and the buttons appear as expected. So, you
all may want to be aware of this when upgrading to VFP 8 and/or XP.
Of course, it could have been just my fault, so, in that case, don't
worry about it. :-)

John

John --

FYI, there's a nice article on this and a few other "gotchas" involved
in upgrading to VFP8. It's by Andrew McNeill, and appears in the May
2003 issue of Foxpro Advisor.

-- Doug Schwarz

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