Is it just me, or is it not possible to set the forecolour of a checkbox?

josh

I tried for like 3 hours to set the forecolor of a checkbox, and then I gave up. But surely I am doing something wrong? Surely it is possible to set the colour of a checkbox?

As you can see, I set the colour to red in the form designer:




But the colour goes to black when I run the form:

AusMarkB

I suspect promoted events are at play.
I'd even have a stab in the dark at the routine name being something like oryx_promoted_events and within the 'create' logic, the 'FORECOLOR' property of certain control types is being set in an attempt to maintain application consistency.

DonBakke

I think this is a Windows theme issue. This is often why the controls in the Form Designer can look different than in runtime. Have you tried setting the FORECOLOR property? I am doubtful it will work, but it can't hurt.

josh

I tried setting the property, also after the create event, and it didn't work. So that rules out promoted events. I will just use another control...perhaps a button that toggles between two states or something... Or i could just use static text and a checkbox with no text...but then they can't click on the text to interact with the checkbox, which is annoying.

DonBakke

As I said, I'm pretty sure this is Windows themes controlling the look of a standard Windows control. You might be able to get what you want using the SRP Button control, which supports a toggle state.

josh

ok, i will give that a try...

thanks